Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack].

  • William Jack
Date:
[1820]
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Credit: Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pada vara. Rheed. Med: 7* p. 51. 27 • Mangkudu kicbeel. Malay* Native of the Malay Islandse A small diffuse shrub, with long slencfcr^branches, nodose at tUe bifurcations. Leaves opposite, short petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, very entire, very smooth, the nerves reddish below, and furnished with ciliated glands in the axils. Stipules interpetiolar, truncate. Peduncles from five to ten, umbellate, ter¬ minal. Flowers aggregate on a common receptacle. Calyx an entire margin crowning the ovary. Corolla infundibuliform, four parted, the laciniae densely co¬ vered within with long white hairs. Stamina four, shorter than the corolla, and alternating with its divi¬ sions ; filaments very short; anthers oblong. Ovary inferior, two-celled, four seeded Stigma bifid. Fruit subglobose, yellow, composed of coadunate berries, an¬ gular by their mutual compression, crowned with the vestige of the calyx, four seeded ; seeds osseous. Obs. Rheed describes his Padavara to be fourteen feet in height ; this is the only particular in which it differs from my plant. In every other respect they a- gree exactly MORINDA POLYSPERMA. (W. JJ Petrandra, pedunculis axillaribus et terminalibys,