44 



petiolata, subcoriacea, integra; stipulaé inconspicuae. Flores 

 cymosi vel solitarii in paniculas axillares ramosas erectas dis- 

 positi, bracteis et bracteolis minutis marcescentibus. 



Lophopetalum javanum Turcz. 



Arbor 30 metros alta, 1 metr. lata, glaberrima. Ramuli te- 

 retes ultimi ad nodos compresso-tetragoni. Folia ramulorum 

 florentium ovato-elliptica, basi obtusa subrotundata vel euneata 

 apice attenuata obtusissima vel subrotundata, saepe scariosa, 

 in ramulis sterilibus elliptica vel ellipticooblonga breviter ob- 

 tusa acuminata, integra, subcoriacea supra nitida saturate vi- 

 ridia in sicco supra glaucescentia subtus badia, nervis supra 

 prominulis subtus valde prominentibus utrinqne 7 — 14, arcuato- 

 patentibus prope marginem obscuris, venis teneribus densis 

 parallelis reticulatis, vulgo 100 — 125 mM. longa 45 — 52 lata, 

 petiolo 15 mM. Paniculae axillares folio multo breviores 40 — 60 

 mM. vel in paniculas compositas terminales conflatae, pedun- 

 culis 0 — 15 mM. Flores in cymas paucifloras (nunc unifloras) 

 brevipedunculatas dispositi, pedicelli stricti 3 — 5 mM. longi. 

 Alabastra late conoidea 3 mM. lata, 2 mM. alta. Flores 8 — 9 

 mM. diam., odore melleo cum pedicellis et pedunculis albi. 

 Calycis lobi rotundati ciliolati, parvi. Petala late ovata apice 

 rotundata, 2 — 3 mM. longa, crista apice liberae lobus interme- 

 dius petaio fere aequilongus, lateralibus utrinque 1 — 2 mino- 

 ribus. Filamenta 1 mM. longa. Pollen tetraedium, alte partitum. 

 Capsula obovato-oblonga apice curvato-apiculata profunde tri- 

 sulca, subalato-triangularis. Valvae 80 — 1 10 mM. longae, 30— 32 

 latae, marginibus mox revolutis, semina transverse soleniformia 

 75 — 90 mM. lata; embryo 30 — ^50 mM. latus, 5 altus, ovidis; 

 cotyledones membranaceo-carnosae radiculam in sinu basis cor- 

 datae foventes. 



Habitat in insula Java, ubi detexit Zollinger, in Sumatra, 

 ubi legit Koord ers (10284/3 specimen foliis magis oblongatis), 

 in Malacca, Burma, Chittagong, Sylhet? 



