bracteoles about "2 in. below the calyx, minute, fugacious. Sapals sub- 
etjual, fleshy with thin edges, rotund. Petals much larger than the 
sepals, orbicular to reniform, clawed. Stamens in the male very nu- 
merous ; anthers sub-sessile, the connective broad, bearing- the 2 cells 
on its edges and produced above them into a broad short truncate pro- 
cess ; rudimentary ovary flattish, without stigma. Female jlowers like 
the males bat with fewer stamens ; ovary hemispheric, imperfectly 2- 
eellod; stigmas 2, sub-sessile, flat, foliaceons, each divided into 3 or 4 lobes 
with thick corrugated edges. Fruit a dry ovoid berry with coriaceous 
dark-coloured epicarp, "75 in. long, and 2 in. in diam., subtended by the 
leathery calyx. Seeds 2, largo, broad, horse-shoe-shaped, flattish, *5 in. 
long. 
Perak, at low elevations ; Scortechini, King's Collector. 
A very distinct species with leaves curiously like those of Illtciu;n 
evenimn, and with smaller flowers than the other species. 
3. Ternstrosmia coriacea, Scheff. Ohs. Phyt, ii, p. 16, (not of Wall,). 
A tree 50 to 70 feet high : young branches liyht brown, smooth. Lean's 
coriaceous, xisually oblong-oblanceolate with an abrupt short blunt api- 
cnlus, Horactimes oblong-lanceolate and acute ; attenuate in the lower 
third to the stout petiole : midrib bold ; main nerves 5 to 9 pairs,spreadiiig, 
anastomosing '2 in. from the entire margin, rather inconspicuous even 
when dry : length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1*75 to 2*5 in., petiole '75 to 1 in, 
Flmvers 125 to 1*5 in. in disun., dioecious, solitary, axillary or from the 
axils of fallen loaves; peduncles flattened, deep brown, 1*5 to 2 in. long, 
slender j bracteoles alternate, minute, about *25 in. below the calyx. 
Sepals Heshy with fchiu edges, rotund ; the 2 outer rather smaller than 
the inner 3. Petals larger than the sepals, much imbricate, rotund, 
fleshy, not clawed. Stamens in the male numerous, from the torus, the 
connective with a broad rounded apical appendage ; quite absent in t he 
female flower. Ovary globular, 2-cellcd ; stigmas 2, sub-sessile, ench 
deeply divided into 6 to 8 sub-spathulato lobes. Fruit baccate, globu- 
lar-ovoid, '75 in. in diam. nnd nearly 1 in. long, dry, with a coriaceous 
rind, subtended by the slightly enlarged burdened calyx and crowned 
by the remains of the stigina. Seeds about 4, oblong, the testa 
rugnlose. 
Malacca ; Griffith (Kew Diatrib.) 183. Ponang ; Curtis, No. 1055. 
Perak ; King's Collector Diatrib. Uangka. 
Distinguished from the preceding by its anthers, by the venation 
of its leaves, and by its young branches. Teysmann's specimens from 
Bangka in no way differ from those from Perak, Malacca and Ponang. 
Wallich's fragmentary specimens, (Cat. No. 7430,) probably fall here. 
The plant issued by Wallich as Ternstraimia coriacea (Cat. No. 1453) is, as 
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