Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 21)5 



branches terminal, shorter than the leaves, very stout, the lateral branches 

 very short, the flowers in dense bracteate clusters at their apices : 

 bracts numerous, broadly ovate, blunt, concave, tomentose outside. Calyx 

 very coriaceous, narrowly campanulate vpith 3 short blunt teeth, seri- 

 ceous-tomentose on both surfaces. Petals longer than the calyx, oblong, 

 concave, tomentose outside except the glabrous edges, glabrous inside. 

 Stamens 6 : the anthers linear, slightly longer than the filaments which 

 are much dilated in the lower half and slightly united at the base into a 

 short tube inserted outside the fleshy disc; rudimentary ovary short, broad, 

 glabrous. Female panicles shorter than the male, but the flowers at 

 least twice as large ('5 in. long) ; the petals narrower, the anthers much 

 shorter than in the males and the filaments completely united for one- 

 thii'd of their length into a tube ; ovary depressed-globular, tomentose, 

 narrowing into the thick tomentose style : stigma discoid. Ripe drupe 

 narrowly ellipsoid, sharply 3-angled, glabrous, the apex rather blunt, 

 2-5 to nearly 3 in. long, and 1 to 1*3 in. in diam. Engler in De 

 Cand. Monog. Phanerog. IV, J 07. 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 1143, Maingay, No. 30 J. Perak: King's 

 collector, Wray, Scortechini ; common. 



A very distinct species recognizable at once by its very coriaceous 

 many-nerved rusty leaflets, large flowers, and boldly trigonous fruits. 



9. Canarium purpurascens, a, W. Benn. in Hook, fil, Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I, 532. A tree 50 to 70 feet high : yoang branches densely rusty- 

 puberulous. Leaves 8 to 14 in. long ; stipules rotund-cordate, rusty- 

 pubescent. Leaflets 7 to 9, coriaceous, oblong to elliptic-oblong, rarely 

 obovate-oblong, entire, or slightly serrate towards the abruptly acu- 

 minate apex, the base slightly narrowed, upper surface glabrous 

 shining ; the lower glabrous and glaucescent, often with a few scattered 

 hairs : main nerves 10 to 14 pairs, spreading ; length 2'5 to 55 in., 

 breadth J to 2 in ; petiolule "2 to '25 in., that of the terminal one 1 

 in. or more. Male inflore>icence ; a racemose panicle often branched, 

 rusty tomentose, 9 to 18 in. long ; the ultimate branches few flowered 

 branched cymules. Bracts ovate, tomentose, larger than the flower- 

 buds, deciduous ; flowers "25 in. long. Calyx tubular, tomentose, with 

 3 broad shallow teeth. Petals broadly oblong, acute, concave, tomentose 

 outside, glabrous inside. Stamens 6 ; the filaments much shorter than 

 the narrowly oblong puberulous anthers, dilated at the base and slightly 

 united so as to form a siiort tube. Disc none. Rudimentary ovary 

 turbinate, glabrous, dark-coloured. Female flowers '6 in. long, in stout 

 few-flowered racemes or panicles only 2 to 4 or 5 in. long ; ovary 

 globular-ovoid, pubescent, narrowed into a short thick style: stigma 

 large, capitate, 3-lobed. Drupe elliptic-ovoid, rather blunt at each end, 



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