356 Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



Machilus medius. Rumph : Amb : III, p. 70. t. 41. 



Jaring jaring tupai. Malay. 



Found at Natal in the island of Sumatra. 



A tree. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate-lanceolate or lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, entire, very smooth, with lateral nerves 

 proceeding from a middle rib ; about five inches long. Pe- 

 tioles short. Peduncles axillary or lateral near the extre- 

 mity of the branches, shorter than the leaves^, supporting a 

 small panicle of flowers. In the flower these peduncles and 

 pedicels are slender and delicate, but as the fruit advances 

 they become very much thickened, fleshy, and red. Perianth 

 six-parted. Stamina nine, the three inner ones glandular at 

 the base and somewhat villous ; anthers opening by longitu- 

 dinal valves. Style short. Stigma capitate, angled. Berry 

 seated on the incrassated peduncle, and embraced at the base 

 by the divisions of the perianth a little enlarged, about the 

 size and shape of an olive, purple, one-seeded. Seed oval, 

 exalbuminous. Radicle superior, far within the edge of the 

 cotyledons. 



Obs. — I have met with another species at Bencoolen with 

 larger leaves from 9 to 12 inches in length, in which the pe- 

 dicels alone are thickened, the peduncles remaining unalter- 

 ed. In this particular it agrees perhaps still better with 

 Rumphius's figure, than the plant above described. 



TETRANTHERA CORDATA. (W.J.) 

 N. O. Laurince, 

 Racemis axillaribus, floribus umbellatis enneandris, fila- 

 mentis pilosis, perianthii limbo sexpartito, foliis cordati- 

 subrotundo-ovatis uninervibus costatis subtus ramulis pedun- 

 culis involucrisque ferrugineo villosis. 

 West coast of Sumatra. 



A moderate sized tree. Leaves alternate, petiolate, cor- 

 date, sometimes sinuate-cordate, varying from subrotund- 

 ovate to oblong-oval, rather acute, smooth above, tomentose 



