196 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



cordate, glabrous ; main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curved, ascending ; length 

 3 to 55 in., breadth 2'5 to 5 in. ; petiole '5 to '65 in., puberulous or 

 glabresceut. Panicles axillary or terminal, slender, lax, rusty-puberu- 

 lous when young, the lateral branches distant, few-flowered ; ovary quite 

 glabrous, lobes of disc scarcely rugose. Samaras ovoid, narrowed 

 towards the retuse apex, membranous, pale brown, with many radiating 

 nerves, reticulate, glabrous, 1 m, or more in length, nucleus with 

 oblong wing. Hiraea indica (?) Wall. Cat 1057. 



Andaman Islands. Distrib. Burmah. 



The type of this species is one of the things included under "Wall. 

 Cat. 1057, with which the Andaman specimens in the Calcutta Her- 

 barium agree very well. Kurz has however also referred, to this species 

 certain Burmese specimens, viz., Falconer's No. 72 (from Upper Weingo 

 Valley) and Heifer's No. 923, which, although agreeing with each other, 

 hardly agree with the Wallichian No. 1057 from Neidann. By the 

 way ! this sheet from Neidann is not included in Wallich's lithographed 

 and published list. 



4. Brachtlophon, Oliver. 



Glabrous shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire. Inflorescence terminal, 

 racemose or corymbose, bracteolate. Flowers yellow. Calyx 5-partite, 

 eglandular. Petals 5, imbricate in bud. Stamens 10, all perfect, the 

 alternate shorter ; filaments longer than the anthers, flat, conjoined at the 

 base into a short disc : anthers linear, basifixed, opening by 2 apical 

 pores. Ovary deeply 3-4-lobed, 3-4-celled; Styles 3 or 4, elongate, 

 slender, divergent : ovules solitary in each cell, pendulous, anatropous. 

 Fruit usually 3-, sometimes only 2-lobed ; separating when ripe into 

 turgid cocci ; each coccus keeled along the back, and at the apex pro- 

 duced into a very short wing. Seed unknown. DisTEiB. Three species ; 

 all Malayan, 



Rachides of the racemes '5 in. long or less, 



leaves coriaceous ... ... .., \ B. Hullettii. 



Rachides of the racemes 2 in. or more in 

 length. 



Main nerves of leaves 7 to 8 pairs, oblique 2 B. Curtisii. 

 Main nerves of leaves 13 to 15 pairs, sub- 

 horizontal ... ... ...3 5. Scortechinii. 



1. Brachtlophon Hullettii, King. n. sp. Leaves coriaceous, shining, 

 minutely reticulate, narrowly elliptic, shortly and abruptly acuminate or 

 acute, the base cuneate : main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, rather prominent 

 beneath, sub- horizontal, interarching far from the margin ; length 4 to 

 7 in., breadth 1*8 to 2-5 in., petiole '1 in. Racemes terminal, fclie 

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