sub-acute, slightly constricted above the claw ; those of the inner row 
closely eonnivont, much constricted above the claw, their apices broad 
and emarginate. Ovaries oblong, sericcous-tomentoso. Ripe carpels 6 
to 8, sessile, sub-globose, minutely pubescent to glabresceut', 1 to 125 
in. in diam. Seeds numerous, oblong, flat, shining. 
Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 90. Perak ; King's Collector, 
Seorteehini. Penaug, Curtis No. 1417. 
2. Drepananthcs ramuliflorus, Maing. Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind, I, 
56. A tall tree, the young branches as in J5. pruni/erus. Leaves as in D. 
pruniferus, but slightly broader at the apex and narrowed at the banc. 
Flowers '4 to '5 in long, much crowded in very short fascicles from 
tubercles on the branches below the leaves : pedicels about *3 in. loug 
stout, rufous-tomentose as is the single sub-orbicular bracteole. Sepals 
much shorter than the petals, broadly triangular, acuminate, spreading, 
mfous-tomentoso especially outside. Petals with concave, eounivent, 
tomcntose claw and fleshy, sub-cylindric, spreading, much curved, ad- 
pressed-pubescent limbs. Ovaries about 5, sessile, oblong. Carpels 
(young) ovoid, slightly oblique, densely rufous-tomentose ; walls of peri- 
carp very thick: seeds few : ripe fruit unknown. 
Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib,), No. 91. Distrib. Sumatra; 
Forbes, No. 2913. 
9. Cakangium, Baill. (Cananga, Rnmph.) 
Tall trees. Leaves largo. Flowers large, yellow, solitary or fascicled 
on short axillary peduncles. Sepals 3. ovate or triangular, valvate. 
Petals 6, *2-5etiate, snbcqual or inner smaller, long, flat, valvate. Stamens 
linear, anther-cells approximate, extrorse ; connective produced into a 
lanceolate acute process. Ovaries many; style oblong (or 0 ?) ; stigmas 
sub-capitate ; ovules numerous, 2-seriate. Ripe carpels many, berried, 
stalked or sessile. Seeds many, testa crustaceous, pitted, sending spinous 
processes into the albumen. — Two species. 
The tree known as Cananga odorata H. f. and T. was by Rumphius 
(who wiote an account of it in Herb. Amb. II, 195, published in 1750) 
named Cananga (Latinice) and Bnnga Cananga (Malaice). Rumphius' de- 
scription is of the usual pre-Linnomn sort, there being no differentiation 
of generic and specific characters and his name of course is not binomial. 
In the chapter of his book following that in which Cananga proper is 
treated of (I. c. p. 197), Rumphius proceeds to describe the wild Canangas 
as distinguished from the Cananga ptoper, which was in his time, (as it is 
still ) much cultivated by the Malays on account of the fragrance of its 
flowers. These wild Canangas llumphius calls Canangm sylvestres and 
of them he distinguishes three sorts. 
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