218 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Feninsula. 



acuminate or sub-acuminate, both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves 7 to 

 9 pairs, oblique, faint : length 3 to 8 in., breadth 1 to 3 in., petiole about 

 "2 in. Panicles cymose, sub-pyramidal, axillary and terminal. Flowers 

 shortly pedicelled. Ovary 2- to 3-celled, hairy, about as long as the thick 

 style. Berry oblong, narrowed to the base, usually 1-seeded. Hook. fil. 

 n. Br. Ind. I, 501. 0. cyanocarpa, Spreng. var. sapindoides, Km'z in 

 Journ. Bot. for 1876, p. 34. 



Penang: Wallich, Maingay, Curtis. Distrib. — Sumatra, Java, 

 Sikkim. 



I doubt very much indeed whether this would not be better treated 

 as a variety of G. pentapJiylla, than as a species. Except the hairiness 

 and the smaller number of cells usually found in its ovary, and its oblong 

 fruit, I see nothing to distinguish it. 



3. Gltcomis puberula, Lindl. in Wall. Cat 6375. A shrub: 

 leaves usually 3-foliolate ; leaflets sub-coriaceous, ovate to oblong-lanceo- 

 late, more or less bluntly acuminate ; the base rounded or cuneate, lower 

 surface pale when dry ; main nerves about 8 pairs, spreading ; length 

 2*5 to 4"5 in., breadth "75 to 1"5 in. Panicles short, axillary ; flowers 

 in short pedicels ; disc small, adnate to the 4- to 5-celled oblong rusty- 

 pilose ovary. Style very short. 



Penang : Singapore, Perak : not common. 



Except in its pilose ovary this differs but little from G. pentaphylla 

 Corr., of which it would be perhaps well to treat it as a form. 



7. MiCROMELUM, Blume. 



Unarmed trees. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets alternate, oblique. 

 Flowers in large terminal corymbose cymes. Galyx cupular, 3-5-toofched 

 or lobed. Petals 5, free, thick, valvate or subimbricate. Stamens 10, 

 free, inserted round a short or long disc; filaments linear-subulate, alter- 

 nately shorter. Ovary 5- rarely 2-6-celled ; style constricted at the base, 

 deciduous, stigma obtuse or capitate ; ovules 2, siiperposed in each cell. 

 Berry small, dry, usually 1-2-seeded, septa spirally twisted. Seeds 

 oblong, testa membranous ; cotyledons leafy, crumpled, radicle long. — 

 Distrib. — Species 3 or 4 : tropical Asiatic and Oceanic. 



A large shrub or small tree : fruit glabrous ... 1. M. puhescens. 



A small shrub, never a tree : fruit pubescent,.. 2. M. hirsutum. 



1, MiCROMELUM PUBESCENS, Biume Bijdr. 137. A large shrub or 

 small tree ; the young parts more or less pubescent or puberulous, the 

 older often glabrescent or even glabrous. Leaves 6 to 18 in, long : 

 leaflets 9 to 15, alternate or sub-opposite, membranous, broadly 

 lanceolate to ovate, acuminate, the edges undulate, sub-cuneate or 

 entire; the base cuuente, often very oblique; main nerves 9 to 12 



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