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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



Bracts small. Calyx five-leaved, erect, reddish, tomentose. 

 Corolla of a light bluish colour, five-petaled ; petals longer 

 than the calyx, spreading at the limb. Stamina, filaments 

 five fertile, exsert ; five-alternate ones short, sterile ; all unit- 

 ed into a ring at the base. Style somewhat shorter than the 

 stamina. Capsule tomentose, ferruginous, follicular, two 

 valved, one-seeded. Seed with an umbilical caruncle. 



Obs. — This is one of the most common species in Sumatra, 

 and like all the rest of the genus frequents thickets and 

 copses, or what is called by the Malays Belukar, rather than 

 the great forests. 



CONNARUS GRANDIS. {W.J.) 



Foliis pinnatis, foliolis quinis ovato-lanceolatis glabris, 

 paniculis terminalibus, capsulis magnis glabris. 

 At Tappanuly in Sumatra. 



A moderate sized tree. Leaves alternate, pinnate, leaflets 

 generally five, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, smooth ; 

 8 or 9 inches long. Panicles terminal, long, smooth. Capsules 

 large, oblique, red, smooth, follicular, bursting on one side, 

 one-seeded. Seed with a large umbilical caruncle. 



Obs, — I have not seen the flowers. — It has larger leaves 

 and fruit than any other species that I have met with, and is 

 further distinguished by the smoothness of all its parts. 



CONNARUS LUCIDUS. (W. J.) 



Foliis pinnatis, foliolis glaberrimis nitidis emarginato- 

 acuminatis, paniculis terminahbus ferrugineis, calyce persis- 

 tehte. 



Sumatra. 



A small tree, with long divaricate subscandent branches. 

 Bark brown and wrinkled. Leaves alternate ; leaflets 5 — 9, 

 ovate-lanceolate or elliptic oblong, terminating in a long 

 linear acumen which is emarginate at the point, entire, very 

 smooth, shining and lucid ; 2 — 2| inches long. Panicles 



