and some other Genera of Malai/an Plants. 117 



Tlie 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 AuranticB and Guttifera, but the structure of the flower 

 determines its true place to be among the MeliacecB. 



I have further met in the forests near Bencoolen with a tree 

 which appears to agree very nearly with the Lansium montamnn 

 Rumpli. Amb, i. p. 154. t. 56. It differs in the number of the 

 stamens, st5des 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 Lanseh, 1 — 2-celled, 1 — 2-seeded. Seeds en- 

 veloped in a thin subtransparent pulpy tunic or envelope^ 

 which has somewhat the flavour of the Lanseh, but with a 

 bitterish and rather disagreeable smell. Carpology as in the 

 L. domesticum. 



The leaves are pinnate with about seven leaflets, elliptic-oblongs 

 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 



