Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 341 

 CCELOPYRUM. (W.J.) 

 Octandria Monogynia. 

 Calyx 4-partitus. Corolla 4-petala. Stamina 8, alterna 

 breviora. Stigma obtusum, subsessile. Drupa supera, nuce 

 biloculari, loculo exteriore lunato alterum fovente. Semen 

 unicum, loculo altero vacuo. 



Arbor, ramis apice foliosis, foliis simplicibus, floribus 

 race mo sis. 



CCELOPYRUM CORIACEUM. 

 Tarantang. Malay. 



In forests in the neighbourhood of Bencoolen. 



A tree with thick branches^ which are foliose at their 

 summit. Leaves alternate, petiolate, elliptic, obtuse or emar- 

 ginate, entire with reflexed margins, firm and leathery, 

 smooth above, pale and tomentose beneath, costate with 

 strong parallel ribs or nerves ; 10 — \2 inches long. Petioles 

 about three inches long, marginate and flattened above. 

 Racemes axillary, erect, shorter than the leaves, branched ; 

 flowers numerous, yellowish, small and inconspicuous, in 

 small racemules or spikelets. Bracts small, acute. Calyx 

 inferior, spreading. Corolla four-petalled, petals longer 

 than the calyx, ovate. Stamina 8, the alternate ones shorter. 

 Ovary surrounded and nearly immersed in a large fleshy 

 nectarial ring, whose sides are angled by the compression of 

 the filaments. Style scarce any. Stigma obtuse. Drupe 

 ovate, acute, smaller than an olive, containing a single nut. 

 Nut two-celled, cells unequal and dissimilar, the outer and 

 lower crescent-shaped, and embracing the other which is 

 smaller, oblong and always empty ; the larger cell contains 

 a single conform seed. 



Obs. — ^The structure of the fruit is very pecuhar ; the 

 empty cell is placed obliquely in the upper part of the nut, 

 the fertile one is as it were wrapped round the other. The 



