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of which it ought certainly to form an essential part. It 

 seems doubtful whether the monogynous species with bilo- 

 cular fruit and definite seeds ought to be united with those 

 which have three styles, three cells and numerous seed, 

 but an examination of their ovaries and placentation is ne- 

 cessary to decide the question. I have met with four spe- 

 cies in Sumatra and the adjacent islands, two of which I have 

 already described in the first volume of the Malayan Mis- 

 cellanies. Their common appellation in Malay is Ingor-ingor 

 Karbau, or BufFaloe's spittle. 



TERNSTRGEMIA RUBIGINOSA. fW. J.) 



Polyandria Monogynia. 



Foliis ovatis spinuloso-serratis subtus incanis, floribus 

 lateralibus et axillaribus fasciculatis monadelphis, peduncuHs 

 calycibusque glauduloso-pilosis, fructu triloculari. 



S'eengo eengo. Malay. 



Sumatra. 



A tree. Branches cinereous, young parts covered with 

 acute scales. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate acuminate, spi- 

 nuloso-serrate, smooth above, hoary and white beneath, 

 the nerves furnished with ferruginous paleaceous scales. 

 Flowers in fascicles, lateral and axillary. Peduncles and 

 calyces covered with glandular hairs. Bracts small about 

 the middle of the peduncles. Calyx five-parted. Corolla 

 white, campanulate rotate, five-parted, divided about half 

 way down. Stamina numerous ; filaments short, united at 

 the base into a ring which is inserted on the bottom of the 

 corolla ; anthers oblong, recurved, affixed by the middle, two- 

 celled, opening at the top by two oblique pores. Ovary 

 ovate, acute, covered with glandular hairs, three-celled, 

 polyspermous, placentae central. Style trifid, divided to the 

 base. Stigmata simple. 



