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Descriptions of Malayan Plants, 



polysporous ; the edges of the placentas revolute. Fruit 

 as large as a duck's egg, acuminated by a part of the 

 persistent style ; seeds numerous, nidulant. 



IX. APOCYNE^. 



LEUCONOTIS. (W. J.) Linn, Trans. XIV./?. 121. 

 Tetrandria Monogynia. N, O. Apocynece, Br. 



Calyx inferus, 4-partitus. Corolla tubulosa, superne an- 

 gustior, limbo 4-lobo. Stamina 4, inclusa, laciniis corolla 

 alterna. Ovarium simplex, biloculare, loculis disporis. Sty- 

 lus 1, brevis. Stigma annulatem, apice conico. Bacca 

 1 — 3-sperma. Smina exalbuminosa, embryone inverso. 



Frutex lactesccens^foliis oppositis exstipularibus, floribus 

 dichotome corymbosis axillaribus. 



LEUCONOTIS ANCEPS. (W, J.) 



Akar Morai. Malay. 

 Sumatra. In forests, Malacca. 



A large shrub. Branchlets four-sided, sprinkled with ele- 

 vated dots. Leaves opposite, petiolate, oblong, rounded at 

 the base, rather long-acuminate, entire, a little waved at the 

 edge, very smooth, shining above, paler and sprinkled with 

 elevated dots beneath; nerves connected by submarginal 

 arches ; about four inches long. Petioles about an inch in 

 length, carinate, connected by a ridge. Stipules none. Pe- 

 duncles axillary, two-edged, longer than the petioles, bearing 

 a dichotomous corymb of yellow flowers. Bracts small, 

 acute, broad at the base. Calyx erect, four-parted, segments 

 rather obtuse, margins membranaceous. Corolla, tube long, 

 gibbous at the base, narrowing upwards; lobes of the limb 

 ovate. Stamens four, inserted on the middle of the tube, 



