^18 Descriptions of Malayan Plants, 



tomentum and also with more remote longer appressed 

 hairs ; the nerves are very hairy, parallel, and terminate in the 

 denticulae of the margin. Petioles short, sheathing ; their 

 margins dilated into membranaceous auricles which might be 

 considered adnate stipules. Peduncles or scapes central, 

 erect, from three to six inches high, pilose, recurved at the 

 summit^ eight or ten flowered. Flowers yellow, pedicellate, 

 racemose. Calyx five-leaved, pilose, leaflets ovate acute. 

 Corolla yellow, spreading, five-petalled, petals broader above, 

 lanceolate. Stamina fifteen, erect, hypogynous ; filaments 

 very short. Anthers very long, linear, two-celled, opening 

 by two pores at the top. Ovaries three, distinct, superior, 

 one-celled, two-seeded, each bearing one style of the height 

 of the stamina. Ovula attached to the inner angles. Stig- 

 mata simple. Capsules three. 



Obs. — I am at a loss to determine the exact affinities of 

 this plant ; it has the habit of the Saxifrageae, but the num- 

 ber of both the male and female parts of fructification is 

 greater by one-third, and the ovaries are distinct. 



TETRACERA ARBORESCENS. (W.J.J 

 Polyandria Tetragynia. 



Foliis obovatis integerrimis glabris, floribus paniculatis 

 axillaribus et terminalibus, calycibus pentaphyllis. 



Found near the shores of the Bay of Tapanooly in 

 Sumatra. 



Arborescent. Leaves alternate, petioled, about three 

 inches long, oblong-obovate, rounded at the apex and 

 terminating in a short point, very entire with reflex edges, 

 smooth, shining above, coriaceous and firm, veins reticulate, 

 nerves somewhat pilose on the under surface. Petioles short. 

 Panicles axillary and terminal, many flowered. Calyx five- 

 leaved, spreading, persistent, smooth. Stamina numerous. 

 Capsules generally three, smooth and shining, roundish ovate, 



