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Descriptions of Malayan Plants, 



Obs, — This is a beautiful species, at once distinguishable 

 by its long pendulous corymbs. Bunga Yarum is the generic 

 Malay name of the Ixorae. 



IXORA NERIFOLTA. (W. J.) 



Foliis linearibus acuminatis glabris, corymbis terminalibus. 



Bung Saluang. Malay, 



Native of the West coast of Sumatra. 



A shrub, with round smooth branches. Leaves opposite, 

 short-petioled, linear, tapering to the point, acute, about 

 nine inches long, by little more than half an inch broad, 

 entire with revolute edges, very smooth. Stipules interpe- 

 tiolar, subulate, longer than the petioles. Corymbs terminal, 

 erect, trichotomous. Flowers red. Bracts small, acute. 

 Calyx small, four-toothed. Corolla tube long, slender ; 

 limb spreading, four-parted, segments lanceolate, acute. 

 Stamina four, alternate with the laciniae of the corolla. 

 Style a little longer than the tube. Stigma clavate. Fruit 

 a berry. 



Obs, — The long narrow leaves readily distinguish this 

 species ; it is a handsome delicate shrub. 



PSYCHOTRIA MALAYANA. (W, J.) 



Pentandria Monogynia. 

 N. O. Rubiacece. 



Foliis lato-lanceolatis, stipulis indivisis, paniculis ter- 

 minalibus corymbosis, corollas fauce villosa. 

 Byumbada. Malay, 

 Native of Pulo Pinang. 



A shrub with round smooth branches. Leaves petiolate, 

 opposite, broad lanceolate, 10 inches in length, acuminate, 

 decurrent upon the petiole, entire, very smooth. Petioles 

 short, thick, round, surrounded at the base by a prominent 

 ring, from which a thick rib diverges on each side and 

 unites with a similar one from the base of the opposite leaf 



