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H. N. Ridley: Botany of Gunong Tahan. 141
anthers on very short filaments, glabrous. Torus covered
with short stiff white hairs. Fruit ellipsoid, ^ inch long,
blue-black. Tree on the Padang, young leaves red; out of
flower.
A very distinct species in its coriaceous closely netted
leaves.
RUTACE^.
*i6. EvODiA siMPLiciFOLiA, /??(i/. 0^. a^. p. 306. A shrub,
rather scarce, in fruit only on the Padang. Endemic.
17. [EvoDiA PACHYPHYLLA, King. Occurs on the ridge
above Wray's Camp.]
Terminthodia, gen. nov.
A shrub or small tree. Leaves alternate, unifoliate,
articulate on the petiole, glandular, subcoriaceous, obovate,
obtuse. Flowers in axillary corymbs, small, green; calyx
4-lobed, lobes rounded. Petals 4, triangular; disc large,
4-angled; gland dotted. Stamens 4; iilaments, subulate, short;
anthers small. Ovary 4-lobed, protruding from the disc.
Style central; stigma small, capitate. Ripe carpels i to 3
developed, boat-shaped, dehiscing along the inner edge. Seeds
two in each carpel, small, flattened and winged, pale brown,
exalbuminous.
Species one.
18. Terminthodia viridiflora, n. sp.
A bush 3 or 4 feet tall, occasionally developing into a
treelet about 15 feet or more tall; bark wrinkled, dark.
Leaves alternate, crowded at the end of the branches, unifoliate,
subcoriaceous, bright green, aromatic, obovate, with a rounded
entire or retuse apex, or shortly acutely acuminate, nerves
about five or six pairs, faintly visible above, elevate beneath,
inarching within the margin, paler beneath, and profusely
gland-dotted, 2 to 3 inches long, ij to 2 inches wide; petiole
^ inch long, articulate with the leaf. Flowers in small pubescent
panicles shorter than the leaves, in the upper axils,
panicles J inch across on a peduncle i^ inch long. Bracts
small, one-tenth inch long, lanceolate-ovate, acute. Sepals 4,
rounded, imbricate, pubescent, green. Petals longer, 4,
triangular acute, spreading, glabrous, I inch long, darker green.
Disc large, 4-angled, flat, gland-dotted. Stamens 4, alternate
with the petals and nearly as long; filaments thick, subulate.
Anthers very small. Ovary protruding from the disc, 4-lobed.
Style central. Stigma very small, cocci i to 3 usually developed,
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when dry.
inch long, boat-shaped, obtuse, green, reticulate
Seed very small, winged, ovoid or obovate, thin,
flat, apex rounded, ^ inch long.
Common on the Padang in rocky places. The leaves
have a strong turpentine odour when crushed.
This plant is allied to the genus Evodia, but differs in its
alternate leaves, large square flat disc, and its thin-winged flat
seed. There is a distinct line between the lamina of the leaf