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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



of small white flowers. Cali//je small, five-lobed. Corolla 

 white, tube longer than the calyx, limb spreading, five-part- 

 ed, lobes subrotund, faux closed with white hairs which 

 appear to form five tufts. Stamina five incluse ; filaments 

 very short ; anthers yellow, sagittate, acute, conniving over 

 the stigma. Ovary furrowed on both sides, two-celled, te- 

 trasporous, surrounded by an obscurely five-lobed nectarial 

 ring. Styles two, united together. Stigma peltate, capitate, 

 glutinous, papillous. Berry globose, smooth, containing 

 two nuts, which are compressed, rugose, gibbous below and 

 tapering towards the top, subunilocular with an imperfect 

 dissepiment ; generally one-seeded. Seed compressed. 



Obs, — This species appears to have considerable resem- 

 blance to Rauwolfia nitida, but is sufficiently distinguished 

 by its inflorescence- The wood of this tree is very light, 

 and employed by the Sumatrans for the scabbards of their 

 swords and krises. 



TABERNAEMONTANA MACROCARPA. (W. J.) 



Foliis ovato-ellipticis basi attenuatis, corymbis terminali- 

 bus dichotomis, folliculis maximis subglobosis. 

 In the interior of Bencoolen. 



A tree; branches smooth, somewhat compressed in con- 

 trary directions between each pair of leaves. Leaves oppo- 

 site, petiolate, from elliptic-ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, taper- 

 ing to the base, broader above with a short point, very entire, 

 very smooth ; nerves transverse, uniting into submarginal 

 arches; 10 — \2 inches long. Petioles embracing the stem 

 and uniting with the base of the opposite one. Peduncles 

 3 — 4, terminal, dividing at their summits into dichotomous 

 corymbs. Flowers rather large, yellowish. Calyx 5-cleft, 

 erect, thick. Corolla much longer than the calyx; tube 

 gibbous, almost globose at the base, narrowing upwards; 

 limb rotate, 5-parted ; segments oblong, oblique. Stamina 

 five, within the tube. Ovary double. Styles two, shorter 



