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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



with transverse veins. Petioles short, thickened at the 

 base, channeled above. Stipules linear, ciliate. Racemes 

 simple, erect, at first terminal, becoming afterwards late- 

 ral. Flowers . alternate, pedicellate, often in pairs. There 

 is a single leaflike bract and several smaller ones at the 

 base of the pedicels, less deciduous than in the preceding. 

 Calz/ic five leaved, leaflets ovate, ciliate. Corolla white, 

 spreading, five-petalled, petals lanceolate, acute. Stamina 

 five, erect, conniving, hypogynous ; filaments very short ; 

 anthers yellow, oblong, broader at the base, two-celled, cells 

 adnate to the sides of the filament, prolonged above into an 

 acumen opening at the top by a pore. Ovary oblong, 

 acute. Style a little longer than the stamina. Stigma 

 simple. Berry red, five-angled, acuminate, composed of a 

 whitish farinaceous pulp, and containing five seeds, each 

 enveloped in a tough fibrous arillus, and in structure the 

 same as the preceding. 



XXX. TERNSTRCEMIACEiE. 



TERNSTRGEMIA. 



The Malayan species of Ternstroemia exhibit a remark 

 ble agreement among themselves, at the same time that they 

 differ considerably from the rest of the genus. They have 

 a trilocular ovarium surm9unted by three styles which are 

 inserted on the same point, but are separate to the base. 

 In some, the corolla is monopetalous with monadelphous 

 stamina, in others it is five petaled with distinct stamina. 

 The anthers are two-celled and open at the top by two 

 oblique pores ; this is probably the case with the whole 

 genus, though it has been omitted in the generic character. 



