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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



long, linear, acute, connected at their points and gaping at 

 the sides, greenish yellow, with a red spot" at the base. 

 Corolla none. Stamina 10, on a curved column. Ovarium 

 stipitate, tomentose, 5-lobed. Style declinate. Stigma five- 

 lobed. 



A great proportion of the flowers are male, and I have 

 not seen the perfect fruit. 



Dr. Roxburgh's plant was a native of Chittagong. 



XXXVII. EL^OCARPEiE. 



ELiEOCARPUS NITIDUS. (W.J.J 

 Polyandria Monogynia. 



Foliis ovato-lanceolatis serratis, racemis axillaribus foliis 

 brevioribus, staminibus quindecim, nuce quinque-locular 

 loculis plerumque quatuor abortivis. 



Bua Manik. Malay. 



Native of Pulo Pinang. 



A tree of moderate size, with grey bark and round smoot 

 branches. Leaves alternate, petiolate, three or four inche 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, obtusely serrate, attenuat 

 ed to the base, very smooth. Stipules none. Racemes simpl 

 axillary, secund, shorter than the leaves. Flowers white 

 short-pedicelled. Calyx deeply five-parted, lacinias linear 

 acute. Corolla five-petaled, fimbriated at the summit. Nec 

 tary of five yellow retuse glands surrounding the ovary 

 Stamina fifteen, erect ; ten are inserted by pairs between th 

 glands of the nectary, the remaining five between thos 

 glands and the ovary. Anthers linear, bilamellate at the 

 summit. Style as long as the calyx. Stigma simple. Drupe 

 globose, containing a five-celled nut, which is rugose, and 

 marked with five obtuse longitudinal ridges ; in general only 



