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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



MORINDA POLYSPERMA. {W. J.) 



Tetrandra, pedunculis axillaribus et terminalibus, corollis 

 quadrifidis intus hirsutis, foliis ovatis acuminatis, baccis 

 bilocularibus polyspermis ! 



Found on the Island of Singapore. 



A shrub with short subdichotomous flexuose branches. 

 Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, acuminate, obtuse at the 

 base, very entire, very smooth, coriaceous, flat, about three 

 inches long. Stipules short, interpetiolar. Peduncles axil- 

 lary and terminal ; axillary ones opposite ; terminal ones 

 from one to four in a kind of umbel. Capitula few flower- 

 ed. Calyx an entire margin. Corolla infundibuliform, four- 

 parted, densely covered within with white hairs. Stamina 

 four, shorter than the corolla ; filaments short ; anthers 

 linear. Style erect. Stigma bifid. Berries coadunate, two- 

 celled, many-seeded ! Seeds numerous angular. 



Obs. — The flowers of this species are perfectly similar to 

 those of the preceding, but the fruit presents a singular 

 anomaly in being polyspermous. Both diflPer so much from 

 the other species of Morinda that I think they might pro- 

 perly constitute a new and distinct genus. 



MYRMECODIA. 



Tetrandria Monogynia. N. O. Rubiacece, 



Calyx subinteger. Corolla quadrifida, tubo intus ad inser- 

 tionem staminum piloso. Stamina quatuor, corolla breviora. 

 Stylus staminibus longior. Stigma simplex. Bacca ovata, 

 quadrilocularis, tetrasperma. 



Parasitica hasi tuberosa, flares basibus petiolorum semitecti. 



MYRMECODIA TUBEROSA. fW. J,) 

 Lin, Trans. XIV. 123. 



Nidus germinans formicarum rubrarum. Rumph. Amb. vi. 

 p.n9.t.55.fig.2. 

 Found at Pulo Nias. 



