Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 353 



Obs. — In the preceding the leaves are acuminate and the 

 flowers in pairs each with its proper pedicel ; in this the 

 leaves are rounded and obtuse at the apex, and the flowers 

 are geminate on a common pedicel. 



RHOPALA OVATA. (W, J.) 



Fohis subsessilibus ovatis utrinque acutis integerrimis, pe- 

 dicellis brevissimis cum calycibus ovariisque levissime tomen- 

 tosis. 



Found at Tappanuly. 



A small tree. Leaves alternate and opposite, almost ses- 

 sile, broad ovate, acute, sometimes acuminate, entire, with 

 revolute edges, very smooth, nerves distinct; ten inches long 

 by six broad. Petiole none save the thickened base of the 

 middle nerve. Racemes below the leaves from former axils. 

 Pedicels two- flowered ; a bract at the base of each and at 

 the subdivisions. Perianth together with the pedicels slight- 

 ly tomentose or nearly smooth. Nectarial scales four. 



LL AQUILARINEiE. 



PHALERIA. (W, J.;* 

 Octandria Monogynia. 



Perianthium coloratum, tubulosum, inferum, limbo 4-parti» 

 to. Stamina 8, exserta. Ovarium biloculare, S-sporum, 

 ovulis pendulis. Stigma capitatum. Bacca bilocularis, dis- 

 perma. Semina exalbuminosa, embryone inverso. 



Frutex foliis suboppositis, floribus axillaribus. 



This genus is related to the Thymeleae, but differs in hav- 

 ing a bilocular ovary and fruit. 



* Drimyspermum. Relnwardt, fide Decaisne. 



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