254 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Leaflets glabrescent on the upper 

 surface, the midrib tomentose ; 

 lower surface densely rusty- 

 tomentose ; main nerves 15 to 

 20 pairs ... ... 13. S. muUiflorar. 



1. Santiria flobibunda, King n. sp, A tree 20 to 30 feet high : 

 young branches stout, scurfy, rusty-pubescent. Leaves 2 or 3 feet long, 

 the rachises flattened and channelled on the upper sux-face below the 

 lowest leaflets, auricled at the very base, puberulous at first but speedily 

 glabrous. Leaflets 13 to 15 or 17, coriaceous, oblong, shortly acuminate ; 

 the base rounded, slightly unequal ; glabrous on both surfaces, the mid- 

 rib alone sometimes puberulous on the lower, reticulations minute ; main 

 nerves 20 to 30 pairs, spreading, curving at the tips, interarching but 

 slightly ; length 9 to 20 in., breadth 2*35 to 5 in. ; petiolules very stout, 

 5 to 7 in. long. Panicles 2 to 3 feet long, slender, much branched, striate, 

 glabrous, bearing numerous scattered horizontal short branchlets '5 

 to 1*5 in. long which bear two or three 3- to 5-flowered cymules. 

 Flowers 1 in. long ; their pedicels longer, unequal, slender, puberulous, 

 with a few subulate bracteoles at the base. Calyx flat, 3-angled, 

 glabrescent. Petals erect, deltoid, fleshy, concave, keeled along the 

 middle, glabrous outside. Stamens 6, the filaments shorter than the 

 oblong anthers, slightly dilated below, inserted on the outer surface of 

 the edge of the thick fleshy cupular disc. Ovary small. Style short, stout, 

 3-angled like the stigma. Bipe drupes elliptic, apiculate, glabrous, '8 in. 

 long and '6 in. in diam ; the peduncles slender, '5 to '75 in. long ; stig- 

 matic scar terminal. 



Perak : King's collector, Nos. 7510, 7632 and 10151. 



There are in the Calcutta Herbarium flowering specimens of a 

 species closely allied to this ; but in the absence of fruit 1 hesitate to 

 describe it. 



2. Santiria laxa. King. A tree 50 to 70 feet high : young branch- 

 es, rachises of the leaves, and the inflorescence densely clothed with rusty, 

 hispidulous, spreading and mostly deciduous hairs. Leaves 14 to 22 in. 

 long, the stipules (if any) deciduous. Leaflets 7 to 9, oblong to oblong- 

 elliptic, sometimes slightly obovate, shortly and abruptly acuminate, 

 the edges entire, the base often unequal-sided, cuneate : length 5 

 to 8 in., breadth 175 to 25 in., petiolule "4 or "5 in. ; both surfaces 

 reticulate, the upper glabrous, the lower sparsely hispidulous especially 

 on the midrib and nerves : main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, slightly promi- 

 nent on the lower surface, spreading, curving, interarching near the 

 edge. Panicles usually much longer than the leaves, terminal, their 

 branches short, lax, rather few-flowered, the ultimate branchlets gla- 



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