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genous to the Malay Islands. On this account Loureiro's 

 name is to be preferred. 



CHIONOTRIA. (W, J.f 



Decandria Monogynia. 



Calyx 5-partitus, inferus. Corolla 5-petala. Stamina 10, 

 erecta. Ovarium 2 loculare, 2 sporum, ovulis pendulis, 

 Stylus 1. Stigma capitatum. Bacca monosperma. Semen 

 exalbuminosum apice umbilicatum ; cotyledonibus maximis 

 convexo-planis, radicula supera minima. 



Frutex, foliis simplicibus oppositis pellucido-punctatis, 

 racemis axillaribus. 



Genus Aurantiis affine. 



CHIONOTRIA RIGIDA. 

 Native of Pulo Pinang. 



A shrub with corrugated grey bark. Leaves opposite, 

 very short-petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, narrow at 

 the base, very entire, very smooth, pellucidly punctate. 

 Stipules subulate, acute. Racemes axillary, erect, rigid, 

 branched, strict, shorter than the leaves, pedicels short, 

 rigid, many-flowered. Flowers greenish, inconspicuous. 

 Bracts very small. Calyx very small, 5-parted. Corolla 

 a little longer than the calyx, 5-petalled. Stamina ten, exsert, 

 erect ; anthers incumbent. Ovarium^ superior, two-celled, 

 two-seeded, seeds pendulous. Style thick, as long as the 

 stamina. Stigma capitate, obtuse. Berry of the size of 

 a cherry, snow white, globular and somewhat flattened, 

 umbihcate, consisting of a spongy farinaceous pulp, and 

 containing a single large round seed. Seed globose, 

 attached superiorly and there umbilicate. Integument coria- 

 ceous, marked with veins which diverge from the umbi- 

 licus. Albumen none. Embryo inverse, conform to the 

 * Sclerostylis. Blume ?— W. G. 



