Rinorea sclerocarpa
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Description
Growth apparently in flushes;
Leaves mostly distichous.
Stipules (3-)4-7(-10) mm long, not appressed, triangular, with a pale-hairy keel, more or less striate, their scars not conspicuous.
Inflorescences in the axil of the 2-4 latest leaves, 2-5 cm long, often rich-flowered and sometimes quite densely, peduncle mostly near the base divided into 2-4 main axes, which after anthesis may long persist as partly empty stalks;
Flowers pear-shaped, the corolla converging.
Sepals subor-bicular, (2-)2½-3(-4) mm, fleshy, sparsely hairy.
Petals 3½-4 mm long, sometimes the top slightly recurved, outside sparsely hairy towards the top.
Fruits seldom more than 2 per inflorescence, subtended by the persistent sepals, before maturity mostly tapering to both ends, (0.9-)2.3-3 cm long, bluntly triangular with hollow sides (0.8-) 1.5-2 cm wide, dull dark-purplish, the valves eventually spreading, compressed and separating into two layers, the inner one cartilaginous and straw-coloured, the outer one leathery.
Seeds 3-6, c. (5-)6-8 mm long, evenly dull brownish.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Atjeh present, East Coast present, Palembang present, between 6°17’ N in S. Siam and Johore present
Malesia: Malay peninsula (scattered between 6°17’ N in S. Siam and Johore), Sumatra (scattered in Atjeh and East Coast, also near Palembang).
Notes
Tree, more or less crooked, sometimes shrubby, to 10(-20) m tall, bole 7-13 cm ø, fluted or buttressed at the base, bark mostly smooth, fawn or grey; slash inner bark granular, yellow or dull orange, wood cream or white. Branches brittle. Leaves above dark green, beneath light green with darker veins. Flowers white, or pale green. Ripe fruits triangular, dark green, sometimes flushed with orange, 3¼ cm ø; unripe fruits may be globose.
, had it under Alsodeia obtusa, our Rinorea bengalensis; , under Alsodeia javanica.
Alsodeia rugosa was described with a hairy ovary; in the buds available this was glabrous.
A CHR. SMITH specimen (BM), stated to be from Ceram, fl. II. 1802, must have been wrongly labelled.
, had it under Alsodeia obtusa, our Rinorea bengalensis; , under Alsodeia javanica.
Alsodeia rugosa was described with a hairy ovary; in the buds available this was glabrous.
A CHR. SMITH specimen (BM), stated to be from Ceram, fl. II. 1802, must have been wrongly labelled.