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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



axillary and terminal, geminate and solitary, somewhat pa- 

 nicled, tomentose ; when geminate, the outer raceme is simple, 

 and the inner branched ; male racemes generally longer than 

 the leaves, female ones shorter. Panicles solitary. Bracts 

 shorter than the pedicels. Male, Calyx 5-parted, to- 

 mentose. Nectary of five yellow pilose glands alternating 

 with the stamina. Stamina 5 ; filaments much longer than 

 the calyx; anthers bifid, cells bursting transversely on the 

 summits of the lobes. Pistil abortive, pilose. Female, 

 Perianth 5-parted. Ovary superior, villous, oblong-ovate, 

 compressed, one-celled, vesicular, containing two ovula 

 which are attached close together to one side near the top, 

 and hang forward into the cell which is in great part empty 

 and inflated. Styles 2, one often bifid. Drupe subglose, 

 purplish, about the size of a pepper corn ; nut 1—2 seeded. 



Obs. — It has considerable resemblance to Roxburgh's A, 

 ptibescens ; that however is a tree, while this is a small shrub. 

 The most important diiFerence appears to be in the nectary 

 of the male flowers. 



XL. FLACOURTIANEiE. 



FLACOURTIA INERMIS. Roxb. 



Arborescens inermis, floribus hermaphroditis fasciculatis 

 axillaribus, foliis ovatis serratis glabris. 

 Koorkup. Malay. 

 Sumatra and Pulo Pinang. 



A tree of moderate size. Leaves alternate, short petioled, 

 ovate, obtusely acuminate, with large blunt serratures, very 

 smooth, lucid, from six to eight inches in length. Peduncles 

 fasciculate in the axils, many flowered. Flowers hermaphro- 

 dite. Calyx 4-leaved, spreading, somewhat tomentose, leaflets 

 subrotund, sharpish. Corolla none. Nectary composed of 



