204 Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



TERNSTRCEMIA PENTAPETALA. (W.J,) 

 ^ Foliis obovato-lanceolatis, spinuloso-denticulatis glabris, 

 floribus lateralibus fasciculatis, pedunculis glabris, fructu tri- 

 loculari. 



Native of Pulo Pinang. 



A shrub with grey bark and leafy at the summit. Leaves 

 alternate, petiolate, 10 to 12 inches long, obovato-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, spinuloso-denticulate, smooth ; the nerves are 

 furnished w^ith a few appressed, innocuous, scale-like spines. 

 Petioles about an inch in length, covered as well as the 

 summits of the branches and buds with small ferruginous 

 scales. Flowers in fascicles below the leaves, from the 

 axils of the fallen ones of the preceding year ; they are 

 pedicellate and white. Calyx colored, five leaved, the two 

 outer leaflets smaller. Corolla white, five petaled, petals 

 subrotund, a little longer than the calyx. Stamina numerous, 

 distinct, inserted on the base of the petals ; filaments short ; 

 anthers oblong, yellowish white, didymous, truncate at the 

 top and there opening by two pores. Ovarium ovate, 

 three-celled, many-seeded, placentae from the inner angles 

 of the cells. Style deeply trifid. (Styles 3 ?) Stigmata three. 



I have not seen the ripe fruit of this, but have been in- 

 formed that it produces a white berry. 



TERNSTRCEMIA ACUMINATA. (W. J.;* 



Foliis obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis spinuloso-denticulatis 

 glabris, floribus axillaribus solitariis polyandris, peduncuhs 

 squamosis, fructu triloculari. 



Found at Tappanully on the West Coast of Sumatra. 



Branches round, somewhat flexuose. All the young parts 

 green with a few appressed scales. Leaves alternate, petio- 

 late, obovate lanceolate, attenuated to the base, terminating 

 in a long acumen or point, spinuloso-denticulate, smooth with 



* Sauraujae sp. Arnott, in Hooker's Journal of Botany, I. 375.— W. G. 



