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Descriptions of Malayan Plants, 



peduncled, lax, and drooping. Flowers small, numerous, 

 short pedicelled. Bracts small, and together with the pe- 

 duncles and calyx sprinkled with furfuraceous tomentum. 



Male. Calyx 3-phyllous, leaflets ovate acute. Stamina 

 numerous in the centre of the flowers. Anthers subrotund. 



Female. Calyx 4, sometimes 5-parted, erect, lacinise acute. 

 Styles three, diverging, hirsute above. Stigmata simple. 

 Fruit tricoccous, beset with soft flexible spines, and covered 

 with stellate hairs, three-seeded. Seeds subrotund, attach- 

 ed to the superior and internal angle of the cells. 



• ENCHIDIUM. (W. J.) 



Monoecia Monadclphia. N. O. Euphorbiacece. Juss : 



Cahjx 5-partitus. Corolla 5-partita. Nectarium, glandulae 

 decern. MAS: Filamentum columnare^ 10-antheriferum ; 

 antheris radiatim patentibus. FEMINA, Ovarium trilobum. 

 Sti/li S. Stigmata 6. 



Flores masculi et feminei in eadem spica. 



ENCHIDIDUM VERTICILLATUM, 

 Arbor spiculorum. Rumph : Amb : III. p. 167. /. 106. 



Not unfrequent on hills in Sumatra and the Malay islands. 



A large shrub ; I have not met with any that had attained 

 to so great a size as mentioned by Rumphius. The Leaves 

 are arranged in a kind of irregular verticils at different 

 distances along the branches, as exhibited in the figure 

 quoted ; on the young shoots they are sometimes irregularly 

 disposed along the whole length ; they are petiolate, lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, very entire, very smooth, firm and somewhat 

 leathery, of various length, generally about 6 inches long 

 by 2\ broad. Petioles from 1 to 2\ inches long, flattened 

 above, striated. Spikes from among the upper verticils of 

 leaves, bearing both male and female flowers, the former 



