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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



SAPINDUS RUBIGINOSUS. Roxb. 



Octandria Monogynia. 



Arborescens inermis, paniculis terminalibus, calycibus 5 

 phyllis, corollis 4-petalis, baccis tribus connatis oblongis. 

 Kalit layu. Malay, 



Pulo Pinang. , 

 Arborescent. Leaves alternate, abruptly pinnate, leaflets 

 nearly opposite, subsessile, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse with a 

 small mucro or point, very entire, nearly smooth, with a few y 

 scattered hairs chiefly on the under surface. Petioles tomen^J 

 tose. Panicles terminal erect, composed of numerous simple" 

 racemes. Pedicels short, generally in pairs. Bracts subulate. 

 Calyx 5-leaved, leaflets subrotund, concave, the two outer 

 ones smaller. Corolla white, 4-petalled, somewhat longer 

 than the calyx, petals ovate, obtuse, appendiculate at the 

 base, appendices furnished with two transverse lines of 

 white hairs. Stamina 8, of which the five upper and longer 

 are incumbent over the remaining three ; filaments villous ; 

 anthers oblong, yellow. Style 1, short, persistent. Stigma 

 capitate, 4-sided villous. Germina three one-seeded. Ber- 

 ries three, connate at the base, purple, oblong, one-seeded. ^ 



HEDYCARPUS.* || 



Tetrandria Monogynia. 

 Perianthium 4-partitum, inferum. Stamina 4. Ovarium 

 3-loculare, loculis disporis. Stigmata tria. Capsula baccata, 

 3-valvis, 3-locularis, seminibus arillo sapido tunicatis. Em- 

 bryo inversus, albumine inclusus. Arbor foliis alternis 

 simplicibus, floribus racemosis. 



Note. — This and the following genus are referred in Endlicher's Genera 

 Plantarum to Euphorbiacege, whether correctly or not, I cannot at pre- 

 sent take upon myself to say. — W. G. 



* Lin : Trans : Vol. xiv. p. 118 t. 119. 



