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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



rounded or subcordated, and sometimes a little unequal at 

 the base, nearly entire, but sometimes waved or obsoletely 

 dentate on the margin ; smooth above, except on the nerves, 

 which are pilose ; softly villous beneath ; from three to four 

 inches long by about one broad. Petioles very short, villous. 

 Stipules interpetiolar, acuminate, villous. Flowers axillary ; 

 nearly sessile, from three to four in each axil. Bracts two, 

 opposite, lanceolate, acute, villous. Calyx four-parted, vil- 

 lous ; segments linear, acute. Corolla yellow, tubular, pilose 

 both within and without ; limb four-parted. Stamens four ; 

 filaments short ; anthers oblong, two-celled. Ovary pilose, 

 crowned within the calyx by a prominent nectarial ring, 

 four-sporous. Style one. Stigma of four thick linear divi- 

 sions. Berry pilose, ovate, crowned with the calyx, smaller 

 than in the preceding, becoming dyed of a dark-blue, of 

 which colour the hairs also partake, containing four one- 

 seeded nuts. Embryo cylindrical, in the axis of the albumen. 



EPITHINIA. (W, J,) 



Tetrandria Monogynia. 

 N, O. Rubiacece, 



Calyx cylindricus, superus, quadridentatus, persistens. 

 Corolla tubulosa, limbo patente quadripartito, fauce villosa. 

 Stamina exserta. Stylus exsertus. Stigma bifidum. Bacca 

 sulcata, dipyrena, nucibus oblongis dispermis, semine uno 

 super alterum. 



EPITHINIA MALAYANA. fW. J.J 



Found in Mangrove swamps on the Island of Singapore. 



A moderate sized shrub with brown bark and smooth 

 branches. Leaves opposite, petiolate, obovate, obtuse, round- 

 ed at the summit, attenuated at the base into the petiole, very 

 entire, very smooth, almost without veins, shining above, paler 

 beneath. Petioles none. Peduncles axillary, dichotomous, 

 many flowered, one flowered in the bifurcations. Calyx cylin- 



