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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



ovate, obtuse, inserted into the base of the calyx. Stamina 

 white, very numerous, longer than the corolla, united at the 

 base into a thick ring. Anthers yellow, didymous, the lobes 

 bursting on opposite sides, so as to give the whole the 

 appearance of a double four-celled anther. Nectary sur- 

 rounding the style within the stamina, hypocrateriform, red 

 and striated within, yellow and entire on the margin. Ova- 

 rium inferior, four-celled, many-seeded ; about four seeds in 

 each cell attached to its upper and inner angle. Style red, 

 as long as the stamina. Stigma simple. Fruit a berry or pome. 



Obs. — The inflorescence of this tree is very remarkable, 

 and quite different from the other species of Careya. 



GLAPHYRIA. (W, J.) 



Icosandria Monogynia, N, O. Myrtacece, 

 Calyx superus, quinquefidus. Corolla pentapetala. Bacca 



quinque-locularis, polysperma ; singuli loculi semina duplici 



ordine axi affixa. 



Arbusculce,foliis alterniSiflorihus axillaribus, 



GLAPHYRIA NITIDA. 



Foliis obovatis obtusis. 



Found on the summit of Gunong Bunko, or the Sugarloaf 

 Mountain, in the interior of Bencoolen. 



A small branchy tree, with very smooth reddish branchlets. 

 Leaves alternate, short-petioled, obovate, obtuse, very entire 5 

 three-fourths of an inch or an inch long, very smooth and 

 polished, very firm, coriaceous, shining-green above, pale 

 and whitish beneath with depressed dots, almost veinless, 

 the lateral nerves indistinct and not at all elevated. Petioles 

 short, reddish. Stipules minute. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 

 few-flowered ; pedicels alternate, rather long. Bracts deci- 

 duous. Calyx superior, persistent, five-parted ; segments 

 oblong. Corolla five-petalled. Stamens numerous. Ovary 

 five-celled, polysporous, crowned with a nectarial tomentose 



