Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 207 



Arborescens, foliis alternis exstipularibus, floribus axilla- 

 ribus. 



ADINANDRA DUMOSA. 

 Daun Saribu. Malay. 



Abundant in thickets throughout Sumatra and various 

 parts of the Malay islands. Common about Malacca. 

 W, G. 



It grows to be a small tree ; the bark is dark brown, and 

 the branches are smooth. Leaves alternate, short petioled, 

 elliptic oblong, acute at both ends, sometimes rounded with 

 an obtuse acumen at top, entire or obsoletely serrate, smooth, 

 slightly glaucous beneath, almost veinless ; 3 — 4 inches long. 

 Stipules none. Peduncles axillary, subsolitary, one flowered, 

 shorter than the leaves, recurved. Calyx bibracteate at the 

 base, five-parted, segments thick, subrotund, overlapping 

 each other. Corolla white, twice as long as the calyx, erect 

 or conniving, five-petalled, petals ovate oblong, broad at the 

 base, acute. Stamina about thirty closely arranged in seve- 

 ral circles, the inner ones shorter ; filaments divisible to 

 their bases, but closely pressed against each other, sericeously 

 pilose, particularly on their outer side ; anthers of the two 

 parallel lobes adnate to the side of the filament, which is 

 prolonged into a mucro at the summit. Ovary superior, 

 smooth, five-celled, polysporous ; the cells are almost bipart- 

 ed by placentae which project from the inner angle, and to 

 whose edges the ovula are attached. Styles single, subu- 

 late. Stigma simple. Berry globose, embraced at the base 

 by the calyx, and acuminated by the persistent style, five- 

 celled, many-seeded. 



Obs. — In general habit and in the texture of the leaves, 

 this plant has some resemblance to Diospyros, but differs 

 widely in fructification. 



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