Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 19 



terminating in a linear acumen not so long as in U. villosum, 

 smooth on both sides. Stipules long, linear, villous. Capitiila 

 axillary on short peduncles. Flower pedicelled. Bractes 

 small, linear, without any appearance of an involucrum. — 

 Calyx forming an almost entire margin above the ovarium, 

 which is crowned with a glandular disc. Berries globose, 

 smooth. — Jack's MSS. 



MORINDA. 



N, O. Rubiacece. 

 MORINDA TETRANDRA. 



Tetrandra, pedunculis umbellatis terminalibus, corollis " 

 quadrifidis intus hirsutis, foliis lanceolatis. 

 Pada vara. Rheed. Mai. 7, p. 51. t. 27. 

 Mangkudu kicheel. Malay. 

 Native of the Malay Islands. 



A small diffuse shrub, with long slender branches, nodose 

 at the bifurcations. Leaves opposite, short petioled, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, very entire, very smooth, the nerves red- 

 dish below, and furnished with ciliated glands in the axils. 

 Stipules interpetiolar, truncate. Peduncles from five to ten, 

 umbellate, terminal. Flowers aggregate on a common re- 

 ceptacle. Calyx an entire margin crowning the ovary. 

 Corolla infundibuliform, four-parted, the lacini^ densely 

 covered within with long white hairs. Stamina four, shorter 

 than the corolla, and alternating with its divisions ; filaments 

 very short ; anthers oblong. Ovary inferior, two-celled, four- 

 seeded. Stigma bifid. Fruit subglobose, yellow, composed 

 of coadunate berries, angular by their mutual compression, 

 crowned ,vith the vestige of the calyx, four-seeded ; seeds 

 osseous. 



Obs. — Rheed describes his Padavara to be fourteen feet 

 in height ; this is the only particular in which it differs from 

 my plant. In every other respect they agree exactly. 



