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XIX. TERNSTRCEMIACE^E. 
[Saurauja. 
i in. covered with lanceolate acuminate hairs. Sepals hairy, 
orbicular. Corolla i in. across. Petals oblong obtuse, white, 
rarely rose. Stamens more than 30, opening by terminal pores. 
Styles 5, free to base. Hab. Pahang, Telom River banks, abundant 
(Ridley). 
(4) S. cauliflora Bl. Bijdr, 120; DC. Mem. Soc. Geneve i. 425; 
var. calycina King, l.c. 199. 
A fair-sized tree. Young branches, petioles and leaves covered 
with long paleaceous hairs. Leaves elliptic-oblong, acutely 
acuminate, base slightly narrowed blunt, edges serrate-aristate, 
above glabrous, beneath hairy on nerves and midrib; nerves 12 
to 14 pairs, 6 to 10 in. long, 2 to 4 in. wide ; petioles very hairy, 
1 to 2'5 in. long. Flowers *4 in. across white, on slender hairy 
pedicels, 1 in. long, from tubercles on stem and branches. Sepals 
round, outer ones hairy, inner ones larger glabrous, thinner. Petals 
obovate-oblong, much longer than the sepals, united below. Styles 
3, united at base. Stamens 25, dehiscing by apical pores. Fruit 
enveloped in the hairy sepals *25 in. long. Seeds ovate-round, 
compressed. Hab. Limestone woods. Rare. Selangor, Batu 
Caves. Perak, Batu Kurau (Scortechini) . Distrib. Java. 
The peninsular variety differs in the hairier branches, petiole and sepals, 
and rather smaller corolla. 
(5) S. rubens Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. By. 61, p. 1. 
A large shrub or small tree 20 ft. tall, glabrous. Leaves oblanceo- 
late acute, narrowed to base, decurrent on petiole, edges entire, 
9 in. long, 4 in. wide; petioles 1-5 in. long. Flowers numerous 
in fascicles on the trunk; pedicels 2 in. long. Buds rose pink. 
Sepals ovate orbicular, deep rose *25 in. long. Petals ovate orbi¬ 
cular, white. Stamens 20, free from petals; anthers opening by 
pores. Ovary glabrous; styles united half their length. Hab. 
Hill woods, local, Selangor, Semangkok Pass (Ridley). 
11 . ARCHYT 1 EA, Martins. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves semi-amplexicaul. Flowers solitary 
in upper axils. Bracts large, leaf-like. Sepals and petals 5 each. 
Stamens numerous 5-adelphous; anthers versatile. Ovary 5-celled; 
styles distinct or wholly united; ovules many in many imbricating 
rows. Capsule acuminate, septicidal from base with persistent 
axis. Seeds linear sub-cylindric. Species 4, tropical Asia and 
America. 
(1) A. Vahlii Choisy Mem. Ternst. 73; Dyer, in Hook. fil. 
F.B.I. i. 294; Pierre, FI. For. Cochinchine, t. 129; King, l.c. 206. 
Ploiarium elegans Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 135, t. 25. 
A slender tree about 20 ft. tall, occasionally on mountains, 
shrubby, glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, sessile, oblanceolate 
