Malayan miscellanies, Volume 1Printed and published at the Sumatran Mission Press, 1820 |
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Pagina 14 - Cotyledons semicylindric, obtuse. Radicle superior, longer than the cotyledons. The branches are terminated by long corniculate buds, in which the gemmation is involute. EUTHEMIS MINOR.— WJ Foliis angusto-lanceolatis leviter serrulatis, racemis simplicibus. baccis rubris angulatis acuminatis. Found at Singapore along with the preceding. This is a smaller shrub than the former, branched, and smooth. Leaves alternate, petiolate, linear-lanceolate, rather obtuse, with a mucro, attenuated to the petiole,...
Pagina 1 - When the hunter returns, the whole village is filled with joy, and old and young, men and women, hurry out to meet him, and conduct him, with the sound of brazen cymbals, dancing, in long lines, to the house of the female he admires, whose family likewise come out to greet him with dances, and provide him with a seat, and give him meat and drink.
Pagina 62 - In looking over the map of the world, it is a melancholy reflection to view so large a portion of the habitable globe as all Borneo abandoned to barbarism and desolation ; that, with all her productive wealth and advantages of physical situation, her valuable and interesting shores should have been overlooked by all Europeans ; that neither the Dutch nor the Portuguese, with centuries of uncontrolled power in these seas, should have shed a ray of civilization on shores bordering upon their principal...
Pagina 4 - ... fauce villosa. Byumbada. Malay. Native of Pulo Pinang. A shrub with round smooth branches. Leaves petiolate, opposite, broad lanceolate, 10 inches in length, acuminate, decurrent upon the petiole, entire, very smooth. Petioles short, thick, round, surrounded at the base by a prominent ring, from which a thick rib diverges on each side and unites with a similar one from the base of the opposite leaf to form the nerve of the large interpetiolar ovate acute stipule. Panicles corymbose, terminal....
Pagina 6 - Capsule 3 or 4-celled, containing numerous seeds arranged on convex placentae. The septa which unite the calyx and ovary appear continuous with the filaments of the stamina. The young parts of the plant are densely villous, but the hairs are easily rubbed away. In drying, the plant assumes a bright yellow colour.
Pagina 27 - Mai." vp 103. t. 52), that I have some hesitation in proposing it as a distinct species. The points of difference are the following : The leaves of this are much longer than those of the Malabar species, which are described as almost veinless, while in this the transverse veins unite into two very distinct marginal nerves, which it is difficult to suppose could have escaped observation had they existed in the other. The representation of the inflorescence in...
Pagina 31 - Corolla white, 8-petaled, petals nearly erect, alternate with the laciniae of the calyx, conduplicate, enclosing the stamina by pairs, bifid, furnished with a few threads or filaments at the •point, ciliated on the margin. Stamina double, the number of the petals inserted on the calyx in a double series, the inner ones shorter, erect, not so long as the petals, enfolded by them until the period of complete expansion, when they burst from their recesses with an elastic force, and disperse their...
Pagina 6 - Pinang. Arborescent, with round smooth branches. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate, acuminate, attenuated to the base and decurrent on the petiole, 10 or n inches long, entire, sometimes with i or 2 toothlets near the point, very smooth.
Pagina 25 - The fruit has a strong balsamic smell, and yields an oil, which is considered useful in rheumatic affections, and has the same balsamic odour as the fruit itself. An infusion of the root is drunk in the same manner as Sassafras, which it appears to resemble in its qualities. The wood is strong and durable when not exposed to wet, and in that case considered equal to Teak. Kayo Gadis signifies the Virgin Tree, whence the specific name.
Pagina 29 - Meliaceae on the inside of an ovate nectarial tube, which is contracted at the mouth, and conceals the anthers. The stigma is large, sessile, simple as far as I have observed, not double as stated by Loureiro. The ovary appears to be i-celled, and to contain 2 pendulous ovula.