682 XLIX. SAXIFRAGACE^E, [DicJlVOa. 
Buds white. Petals, stamens and stigmas deep blue. Hab. 
Mountain forests at 2500 to 5 000 ft- altitude. Pahang, Telom. 
Selangor, Ginting Bidai. Perak, Thaiping Hills, common; Gunong 
Inas (Yapp). Dislrib. Indo-Malaya, China. Flowers with pale 
blue or white petals occasionally occur. 
2. WEINMANNIA, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves stipulate odd-pinnate (or trifoliate or 
simple) glandular serrate. Flowers small racemose. Calyx-tube 
short, lobes 4 to 5. Petals 4 to 5, imbricate, spathulate or obovate 
inserted under the margin of a perigynous disc. Stamens 8 to 10, 
insert with the petals; filaments exsert. Ovary free, conic 2-celled, 
2-beaked. Styles 2. Capsule coriaceous, 2-celled, 2-valved. Seeds 
elongate. Species 80, Mascarene, Malaya, Australia, America. _ 
( 1 ) W. Blumei Planch. Hook . Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 470; King, 
l.c. 299. 
A small much-branched tree. Leaves bright red when young, 
pinnate 2 to 3-5 in. long; leaflets 9 to n, sessile, oblong lanceolate 
acute, glabrous except for a few black hairs beneath; nerves 6 to 7 
pairs, 75 to 1 in. long (terminal one longer), *2 to *3 in. wide. 
Stipules obovate, round, 'i in. across, pubescent. Racemes clus¬ 
tered about 3 in. long, terminal. Flowers pinkish white. Capsules 
elliptic with the two divergent styles at tip red. Hab. Mountains, 
not rare, 4000 to 6000 ft. altitude. Malacca, Mt. Ophir. Pahang, 
Gunong Tahan (Robinson); Ivluang Terbang (Barnes). Perak, 
Gunong Bubu (Wray); Gunong Hijau, Thaiping Hills. Dislrib. 
Java, Philippines. 
3 . POLYOSMA, Bl. 
Trees of medium or small size or shrubs. Leaves coriaceous or 
membranous, opposite petioled. Flowers in terminal racemes, 
short pedicelled with 3 bracts, white, fragrant. Calyx-tube short, 
adnate to ovary; lobes 4, small. Petals 4, epigynous, linear, 
valvate, pubescent outside, villous inside, recurved in flowering. 
Stamens 4; filaments hairy. Ovary inferior, i-celled; style 
columnar, long; ovules numerous, parietal. Stigma simple. 
Fruit baccate, i-seeded. Species 20, Indo-Malaya, Australia. 
Leaves membranous drying black. 
Leaves sinuate-dentate, 2*5 in. long, 1 in. wide; 
flowers 1 in. long, few . . . . (1) P. ilicifolia 
Leaves sinuate-dentate, 6 to 7 by 3 - 5 in.; flowers 
•5 in. many . . . . . (2) P. grandis 
Leaves entire; leaves 4 to 6 in. long. 
Fruit elliptic, narrow both flowers *3 in. 
appressed, hairy . . . . . {3) P. integrifolia 
Flowers conoid; flowers sparsely puberulous . (4) P. conocarpa 
Leaves 3 - 5 by 1*5 in.; flowers small, ‘2 in. long . (5) P. fragrans 
