Descriptions of Malayan Plants, 



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to form the nerve of the large interpetiolar ovate acute 

 stipule. Panicles corymbose, terminal. Flowers numer- 

 ous. Bracts broad, membranaceous, embracing. Calyx 

 superior, erect, quinquefid. Corolla white with greenish 

 limb, infundibuliform, longer than the calyx, mouth closed 

 with dense white hairs, limb 5-parted, somewhat reflexed, 

 laciniae ovate. Stamina 5, erect, inserted on the tube, 

 filaments very short, anthers linear. Style filiform, stig- 

 mata two thick and linear. Capsule inferior, two-celled, 

 two-seeded. 



PSILOBIUM. ( W. J.) 



Pentandria Monogynia. 

 N. O. Rubiacece, Juss : 



Calyoo patens, 5-partitus. Corolla tubo brevi, limbo 

 5-partito. Stamina basi corollas inserta. Stigma clavatum, 

 10-alatum, exsertum. Fructus cylindricus siliquaeformis, 

 foliolis calycinis persistentibus coronatus, bilocularis polys- 

 permus. Semina duplici serie axi affixa. 



Fruticosa, pedunculis axillaribus paucifloris^ cestivatione 

 valvata* 



PSILOBIUM NUTANS. (W, J.) 

 Found in the interior of Bencoolen. 



Stem erect, four-sided with rounded angles. Leaves 

 opposite, petiolate, lanceolate, attenuated to both ends, 

 acute, entire, smooth. Stipules interpetiolar, broad, acu- 

 minate, carinate. Peduncles axillary drooping, bearing 

 from three to six flowers. Bracts forming a kind of involucre 

 at the base of the very short pedicels. Calyoo superior, very 

 large, composed of five leaflets or very deep segments, which 

 are veined with red. Stamina five ; filaments short, anthers 

 long, erect. Style short. Stigma long, exsert, oblong-ovate, 

 longitudinally ten-winged, the five alternate wings smaller. 

 Fruit long, cylindricaly siliquose, crowned with the large per- 



