462 B. ^ing — Mcttenats for a M&ra cf th& Malayan Penitmda. [No. 0, 
1. BUCHINANIA, Roxb. 
TveeBt Leaves alternate, petioled, simple^ quite entire. Fanides 
terminal and axillary, crowde*!. Flowers amall, wTiite, liermaphrodiie. 
Cahjx' shorty 3-5-toothed or -lobed, persistent, imbricate. Pete ?s 4-5, 
o"blong, recurved, imbricate. I>is6 orbicular, 54obed, Stamens 8-lD, 
free, inserted at tho base of the disc. Carpels 5-6, free. Heated in the 
cavity of the disc, one fertile, tko rest imperfect j style short, sti^^ma 
truncate ; mmh 1, pendulous from a basal funicle. Drupe small, flesh 
Reality; stone crustRceoas or bony^ 2'valved. Seed gibbons,, acute at 
one end»; cotyledons thick ; radich supeiior.— DiSTitiB. A tropical 
Asiatic, Australian and Polynesian genus ; species about 25. 
Anthers not sagittate at the baa© ... ... 1. B. plaiyneura. 
Anther^ sagittate at the base. 
Leaves always sharply acuminate at the apex, 
the lower surface of the midrib pubescent ; 
panicles pubescent ... 2, B, se^silifolia. 
Leaves rounded or obtuse at the apex, some- 
times shortly and bluntly acuminate, every- 
where glabrous : panicle glabrous .„ 3. B.jlorida. 
1. BuCHAKAKiA pLATYSBDRA, Kurz in JouTO. As. Soc Bengal XLY 
(1876), pt. 2„ p. 125. A tree 40 to 60 feet high, the young shoots 
deciduously pnberuloas. Leaxm eoriaceoua, narrowly elliptic to elliptic- 
lanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base cuneate and sometimes 
slightly uneqiml \ both surfaces glabrous and shining, the reticulations 
when dry distinct or not, the midi-ib broad on both surfaces ; main nerves 
11 to 13 pairs, spreading, earring ; length 4 to 9 in. or even 11 in,, 
breadth J "75 to 2'5 in,, petiole "5 to 1 in. Panicles crowded at the ends 
of the branches, axillary, erect, shorter or longer than the leaves, shortly ^ 
peduocnlate, pnbernlons ; theii' branches short, slender, hoi'ieontal, 
cymosely few-flowered. Flowers '1 in. in di&m., on minutely bracteolatQ 
pedicels longer than tliemselves. Sepals 4, thick, ovate or elliptic, 
obtuse, much sborter than the petals. Felak 4, oblong, very blunt, 
spreading and reflexed. Stamejis 8 ; the anthers narrow, elongate, the 
bases not sagittate, the apices reeut'ved ; Jllanients longer than the 
anthers, fiat. FutUs several, one only ripening, iJmpe sub-globular, 
with 4 vertical ridges, two prominent and two obscure, glabrous, 
purplish -black when ripe; the stone hard, "4 in. in diam. Engler in DC. 
Mon. Phan. IV, 193. 
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands : very common. 
This is put by Engler amongst doubtful species — no doubt as the 
result of his not having seen good specimens ; for the species is a very 
well-mai-ked one. Its nearest ally is the Sumati^n species B, spletid^iSy 
iliq. 
