480 G-. Kiiag — Maieiiah for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, [No. 3, 
witli age, pubernlonB toward the apex, the branches cyraose ; the 
flowers at the apicea^ *5 in. long, the pedicel shorter ; bract ovate- 
lanceolate, nerved, pubemloua. Sepals lanceolate. Petals lopger thnn 
thfj sepals, linear-laneeolate, doflexCNi fram the middle. Stanwm about 
9f one longer than the otbei-s. Frnit 1 io, long ; ils peduncle Jarge, 
fleshy, aark-colonred. Jacq. Ann. I, 121, t. 35; DC. Prod. IT, 62; 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. 11, 312 ; Wall. Cat. 990 ; Wight and Am. Piwlr. I, 
168; Clcah. Cat. Bomb. PI 40 j Dal5% and Gibs. Bomb. Flor. Suppl. 
18; GrifE. Notul. IV, 408, t. 665, 1 3 e./.; Hoqji. fil. FL Br, Ind. It, 
20 i Bedd, Fl. Sjlv. t. 163; Kara For. Flora Bnrma, I, 310 ; Engler 
in DC, Mou. Pban. lY, 219.— ESieede Hort. Mai. HI, t. 64. 
In all the Provinces, but al.ways near villages and probably planted, 
A native of tmpical Amei'ica, 
6. GlutAj Linn, 
Trees with caustic juice. Leaves crowded at the ends of the 
brancUlets, short-petioled, simple, oblong, eoriaceoas. Panicles axil- 
lary aiid termiiial. Flowers small, hermaphrodite. Cah/x spathaceoas, 
bursting irreguJarly, cadacous. Petals 4-6, adnate to the disc, imbii- 
eate. Disc elongate^ rarely shoi-t. Stamens 4-6, inserted on the diao, 
filaments can^lkry. Ovari/ sessile on the disc or stifvitate, oblique, 1- 
celled 3 style lateral, filiform, stigma simple ; ovule solitary, peudulons 
from a basal fimicle. Drupe sub-ligueous, stalked, diy, more or less 
irregnlarly globose, irregularly tuborclcd or ridged j the endocarp coria- 
ceous, connate with the testa, jwicy : cotyledotts fleshy, large, connate : the 
radicle short and incarved. — DlsTEia, Aboat six species all either 
Malayan or Barmese. 
Caly.x only aboat one-fourth of the length of the 
petals, glabroEs; petioles short (-3 to '6 in. 
loog) ... .„ ... ... 1. Q.Bettgha^, 
Calyi half as long as the petals. 
Calyx glabrous ; petioles slender, '6 to 1 in., 
long, ovary obliquely ovoid 2. Q, eUgans. 
Calyx toraentose ; ovary obliquely sub-reni- 
form-orbicuJai', tnbercled, glabrous ; petioles 
very short (1 to -35 in.) ... ... 3. Q, coarctata. 
Calyx pubescent ; ovary obovoid-rotund, tomen* 
toae; petioles '6 or -7 in. broad, channelled ... 4. G, WrmjL 
1, Gluta BBKGnAS, Linn. Manfc. 293. A tree, imre* oblaoceoIalB- 
oblong, the apex broad and rounded, rarely with a blunt apiculus ; 
gi-adually nan-owed in the lower half to the short nairow channelled 
petiole; both suifaces ehijimg aud reticalsite i main nerves 18 to 20 
