Descriptions of Malayan Plants, 



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drical, persistent, almost entire or obsoletely four dentate. 

 Corolla white, tube longer than the calyx, limb spreading, 

 four-parted, lobes ovate, rather acute, faux closed with 

 white hairs. Stamina four, exsert, spreading, inserted alter- 

 nately with the lobes of the corolla ; filaments short ; anthers 

 linear, acute, dark colored. Ovary oblong, compressed, two- 

 celled, cells two-seeded, the one placed over the other. 

 Style exsert. Stigma bifid, with thick linear lobes. Fruit 

 inferior oblong, marked with eight deep longitudinal fur- 

 rows, crowned with the calyx, containing two long narrow 

 oblong nuts, each with two-seeds, the one placed above the 

 other. One of them sometimes proves abortive. 



Obs, — I have not been able to refer this to any known 

 tetrandrous genus ; it seems to come nearest to Malanea of 

 Aublet, but differs in several essential characters. The 

 position of the seeds is peculiar. 



IXORA PENDULA. (W. J.) 

 N. O. Rubiacece, 



Foliis elliptico-lanceolatis glaberrimis, corymbis longe pe- 

 dunculatis pendulis. 

 Bunga yarum. Malay, 

 Native of Pulo Pinang, &c. 



A shrub with smooth compressed branches. Leaves op- 

 posite, short petioled, eleven or twelve inches long, ellipti- 

 cally lanceolate, rather obtuse, very entire, very smooth, 

 shining above. Petioles little more than half an inch in 

 length. Stipules interpetiolar, broad at the base, ending 

 in a subulate point. Corymbs terminal, long peduncled, 

 hanging, trichotomous, many flowered. Flowers red. Bracts 

 two, small, at the base of the calyx. Calyx small, four-parted, 

 slightly tomentose. Corolla red, tube long and slender, 

 limb four-parted, lobes ovate lanceolate rather acute. Sta- 

 mina spreading. Style filiform. Stigma clavate. 



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