1895.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 107 
of fruit of this), being the greater size of its flowers, and the colour 
of the tomentum of the flowers and inflorescence which in this is rusty, 
whereas in G . parvifolius it is pale. Professor Oliver relies as a diagnostic 
mark on a difference in the length of the ovarian cavity; the cavity of 
the ovary in G. parvifolius reaching nearly to the base of the style, 
whereas in C . grandifolius it occupies the base only of the ovary. 
9. Ximenta, Linn. 
A shrub or low tree. Branches spiny. Leaves shortly petioled, 
alternate, simple, 1-nerved. Flowers racemose, usually hermaphrodite. 
Calyx cupular, 4- 5-toothed, persistent, not accrescent. Petals 4-5, 
oblong, revolute, hairy within. Stamens twice as many as the petals, 
hypogynous ; anthers innate, linear, 2-celled. Staminodes 0. Ovary 
sessile, superior, 4-celled; style columnar, stigma simple ; ovules 
solitary in each cell, pendulous, anatropous. Drupe ovoid, 1-celled ; 
stone solitary.— Distrib. Species, 4-5, 1 Mexican, 1 South African, 
1 Bornean, 1 Polynesian, 1 widely dispersed through the Tropics of 
both hemispheres. 
1. Ximenta Americana, Linn. Sp. PI. 1193. Glabrous, the young 
shoots striate and lenticellat-e. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-ovate to sub-or¬ 
bicular, the apex emarginate, the base rounded; length J to 2 in., breadth 
•75 to P25 in. Racemes short, axillary, or at the ends of short branches, 
few-flowered. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, *35 in. long; the 
buds oblong, acute, bracts minute. Galyx much shorter than the 
petals. Anthers linear, erect, the connective thick. Ovary ovoid-conical, 
glabrous. Style as long as the stamens. Stigma simple. Fruit oval, 
glabrous, about 1 in. long, orange-red when ripe, the pericarp pulpy; 
endocarp bony, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Lamk. Illust. 297, fig. 1 ; DC. Prod. 
I, 533; Iloxb. FI. Ind. II, 252; W. and A. Prod. 89; Blume Mus. Bet. 
Lugd. Bat. I, 247 ; Miq. FI. Ind, Bat. I, Pfc. 1, 786 ; Hook. fil. FI. Br. 
Ind. I, 574; Pierre For. Flor. Coch. China, x. 265 ; Kurz For. Flora 
Burma I, 233; Yaleton Olacinese, 74. X. Russellia?ia, Wall. Cat. 6784. 
Malacca, Singapore, Hicobar and Andaman Islands :— Distrib. 
Malayan Archipelago ; Peninsular India. 
10. Scorgdocarpus, Beccari. 
A tall tree. Leaves alternate, simple, penni-nerved. Flowers dich- 
lamydeous, in short axillary racemes. Calyx small, cupular, 4-crenate, 
not enlarging with the fruit. Petals 4 or 5, hypogynous, narrow, val- 
vate, coherent by their edges until mature, lanate internally. Stamens 
twice as many as the petals, attached to them in pairs, dehiscing sutu- 
rally, the filaments shorter than the linear elongate erect anthers. 
