Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



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JONESIA DECLINATA. (W. J.) 

 Foliis 6-8 jugis, foliolis oblongis, floribus fasciculato-pani- 

 culatis tetrandris. 



Kayu Siturun. Malay. 



A small straggling tree found generally in thickets, native 

 of Sumatra. 



Branches depending, whence the native name. Leaves 

 alternate, composed of from six to eight pair of leaflets, of 

 which the lowest are situated on the base of the petiole ; 

 they are opposite, from ten to twelve inches in length, ob- 

 long, rounded at the extremity, but terminating in a short 

 thick recurved point, entire on the margin, smooth. Petiole 

 roundish, thickened at the base. Stipule intrapetiolar, em- 

 bracing the stem, broad at the base, ovate and pointed. 

 Flowers in lateral fasciculate panicles ; two subrotund bracts 

 below each flower ; pedicels slender ; the whole very smooth 

 and delicate, and of a light semi-transparent red colour. 

 Calyx reddish yellow, tubular ; tube narrow ; limb four-part- 

 ed, flat, segments subrotund, about the same size as the 

 bracts. Corolla none. Stamina four, more than twice the 

 length of the calyx and inserted on its tube, their upper 

 part deep red. Anthers deep purple, subrotund, two-celled, 

 each cell streaked with white. There are no rudiments 

 of abortive stamina. Germen pedicellate, pedicel accrete 

 to the tube of the calyx. Style long, red. Stigma round. 

 Legume pedicellate, flat, compressed, containing several 

 seeds. 



The large branches of delicate flesh-colored flowers ren- 

 der this a very beautiful shrub during the period of inflor- 

 escence. 



MIMOSA JIRINGA. 



Arbor inermis, foliis conjugato-pinnatis, foliolis 3-jugis 

 glaberrimis, paniculis fasciculatis axillaribus, capitulis pauci- 

 floris, leguminibus maximis articulato-contortis nigris. 



