230 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Bot. V. 581. E. merguensis, Planch. 1. c. ; E. tavoyana, Wall. Cat., 8523 ; 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 521 ; Kurz For Flora Barmah. I, 202. 



In all the province.s except the Andaman and Nicobar islands. 

 DiSTRiB. — Malayan Archipelago, Philippines, Burmah. 



2. Edrycoma apiculata, a. W. Bennett in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I, 522. A shrub or small tree ; young branches about "25 in. thick, 

 nearly glabrous, rather pale. Leaves 12 to J5 in. long ; the leaflets 

 numerous, sub-coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, shortly and rather abruptly 

 acuminate ; the base acute, very slightly oblique ; both surfaces glabrous, 

 dull; length 2*5 to 55 in., breadth 1 to 17 in. Panicles shorter than the 

 leaves ; the lateral branches short, slender, lew-flow^ered, clothed, espe- 

 cially towards the extremities, witb short, black glandular hairs. Calyx 

 mucb shorter than the corolla, the segments sub-erect, ovate, acute. 

 Petals thin, erect, linear, glabrous inside, glandular outside, "35 in. long. 

 Stamens about as long as the sepals, alternating with very minute 

 entire glands. Fruit as in E. longifolia. 



Penang : Perak, not so common as the last. 



This species comes very near J5?. longifolia, Jack., the chief distinction 

 being in the flowers. The branches are also very much thinner than 

 those of E. longifolia, and they are glabrous ; the panicles have shorter 

 and fewer-flowered branches. 



5. IRYINGIA, Hook. f. 



Glabrous insipid trees. Leaves simple, coriaceous, entire, with 

 deciduous stipules. Flowers hermaphrodite, in axillary panicles, ebrac- 

 teate. Calyx small, 4-5-partite, imbricate. Petals 4-5, imbricate. 

 Disc very large, cushion-shaped. Stamens 10, inserted beneath the 

 disc, filaments long, slender. Ovary conical, compressed, 2-celled, 

 entire ; style simple, terminal ; ovules solitary. Fruit drupaceous, large, 

 vrith 1 pendulous exalbuminous seed. Four species — 3 Tropical African, 

 and 1 Malayan. 



1. Irvingia malayana, Oliver ex Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 522. 

 Young branches glabrous, striate. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, elliptic, 

 acute, entire, the base rounded ; main nerves 14 to 16 pairs, spreading, 

 curved, inconspicuous : length 3*5 to 55 in., breadth 1"75 to 2*4 in., 

 petiole '6 to '7 in. Panicles axillary, little-branched, shorter than the 

 leaves. Flowers small, hermaphrodite. Calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse. Petals 

 twice as long as the calyx and equal to the stamens, reflexed after 

 flowering. Disc large, bearing the conical ovary in the middle of it. 

 Fruit a glabrous compi'essed di'upe, 2 in. long and nearly 1*5 in. in 

 diam. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 468. 



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