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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



A tree, with smooth compressed branchlets. Leaves alter- 

 nate, petiolate, elliptic-oblong, emarginate, somewhat atte- 

 nuated to the base, entire, smooth, firm and rigid with thick 

 revolute edges, shining above, rather glaucous beneath, veins 

 reticulate ; about three inches long. Petioles short, flattened 

 above. Stipules minute, deciduous. Peduncles, axillary on 

 the younger shoots, much longer than the leaves, smooth, 

 dichotomous at the summit, with a pedicel in the bifurcation, 

 bearing generally about seven flowers, which are small and 

 green. Calyx five-parted, segments rounded. Corolla gluti- 

 nous as well as the calyx, five petalled, petals roundish. 

 Stamina ten; filaments inserted below the petals; anthers 

 yellow, two-celled. Ovary surrounded at the base by a 

 yellow fleshy nectarial ring, five-celled, ten-seeded. Style 

 erect. Stigma capitate. Capsule surrounded at the base by 

 the persistent calyx and corolla somewhat enlarged, oblong, 

 pointed, smooth, five-valved, five-celled, septa formed by 

 the introflexed margins of the valves, cells two-seeded, but 

 frequently only one comes to perfection, they are separated 

 from each other by a ridge which projects from the middle 

 of the valves. Seeds compressed, oblong, angular, winged 

 at the lower end. Albumen conform to the seed. Embryo ' 

 inverse, central. Cotyledons flat, oval. Radicle superior, 

 cylindrical, not so long as the cotyledons. 



IXONANTHES ICOSANDRA. 



Floribus icosandris, foliis crenatis. 

 Found in the interior of Bencoolen. 



A tree. Leaves alternate or scattered, short-petioled, 

 lanceolate oblong, emarginate, dentato-crenate, very smooth, 

 shining above; about six inches long. Stipules small, 

 deciduous. Peduncles axillary, nearly as long as the leaves, 

 bearing a trichotomous umbel or corymb of greenish flowers. 

 Bracts ^mdW* Calyx 5 — 6 parted. Corolla 5 — 6 petalled, 

 glutinous as well as the calyx, petals spreading subrotund, 



