and some other Genera of Malayan Plants. 117 
The juicy envelope of the seeds is the part eaten, and the taste 
is cooling and pleasant. 
This genus has hitherto been known only from Rumphius's 
figure and description, and its place in the system has therefore 
continued uncertain. From an examination of the fruit, M.Cor- 
rea de Serra conjectured it to be intermediate between the fami- 
lies of Aurantie and Guttifere, but the structure of the flower 
determines its true place to be among the Meliacee. 
I have further met in the forests near Bencoolen with a tree 
which appears to agree very nearly with the Lansium montanum 
Rumph. Amb. i. p. 154. t. 56. It differs in the number of the 
stamens, styles and seeds from the Lansium described above, but 
agrees with it exactly in carpological structure and in general 
habit. Its characters coincide very nearly with those of Rox- 
burgh’s Milnea. They are as follow: 
Flowers small and inconspicuous. Calyx five-parted. Corolla 
five-petalled. Stamineous tube subglobose, entire at the 
mouth; anthers five, within the tube. Styles two. Stig- 
mas two, simple. Berries globose, about the size of the 
domestic Lanséh, 1—2-celled, 1—2-seeded.. Seeds en- 
veloped in a thin subtransparent pulpy tunic or envelope, 
which has somewhat the flavour of the Lanséh, but with a 
bitterish and rather disagreeable smell. Carpology as in the 
L. domesticum. 
The leaves are pinnate with about seven leaflets, elliptic-oblong, 
broader above and narrowing to the base, terminating in a 
long obtuse acumen, entire, very smooth. Petioles sprinkled 
as well as the branchlets with ferruginous pulverulent to- 
mentum. Stipules none. Panicles axillary or supra-axil- 
lary, shorter than the leaves, composed of a few short 
branches with small greenish flowers. 
Milnea 
