24 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsida. 



9-lobed, 7- to 9-celled, tlie pei-icarp very thick. Seeds exalbuminoua, 

 compressed, exarillate, glabrous, with large hilum and confcrru ruinate 

 cotyledons. 



DiSTRiB. A single Malayan species. 



MEGAPHYLL.ffiA Perakensis, Hemsl. in Hook Ic. Plant, t. 1708. A 

 tree 20 to 40 feet high. Leaves when adult 6 or 7 feet long (fide Hem- 

 eley), glabrous, tlie petiole and rachis compressed ; leaflets oblong, sub- 

 coriaceous, sub-acute; the base oblique, sub-truncate or cuuente ; the 

 larger 12 to ] 5 in. long, 3 to 4 in. broad; petiolules "SS to "75 in.; 

 main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spreading, cuiving, slightly prominent be- 

 neath. Panicles 36 to 20 in. long ; the lateral branches short, racemose, 

 few-flowered; the main rachis 4-angled, compressed. Floioer-bnds 

 clavate, narrowed into a pseudo-stalk as long as the pedicel proper. 

 Flo2vers 1 in. long, and about ] -25 in. in diam. when expanded, their 

 pedicels 35 in. long. Gahjx shortly cylindric, with a thick lobulated 

 riuf outside near the thickened base, puberulous outside. Staminal-tuhe 

 shorter than the petals, pubescent inside below the insertion of the 

 anthers, otherwise glabrous. Anthers elliptic. Ovary and lower half 

 of style minutely tomentose. Fruit globular-pyriform, densely but mi- 

 nutely tomentose, about 3 in. in diam. ; the pericarp 1 in. thick. Seeds 

 1 in long. 



Perak; at elevations of 3,000 to 4,000 feet, Scortechini, Wray, Curtis, 

 King's Collector. 



This genus was placed by its author provisionally next to Ghisoche- 

 ton to which it is no doubt closely allied, the points in which it chiefly 

 differs from that genus being its two-ranked petals and 7- to 9-celled 

 ovary. I give the length of the leaves as 6 to 7 feet on the authoiity 

 of Mr. Hemsley who, in his figure, shows the leaflets as very numerous. 

 None of tlie Herbarium specimens which I have seen enable me to esti- 

 mate either the length of the former or the number of the latter. 



4. Chisocheton, Blume. (SchizocMton.) 

 Trees or shrubs. Lea ws equally pinnate ; leaflets entire, opposite 

 or sub-opposite, more or lesa oblique. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, in 

 extra-axillary, larely axillai-y, divaricately-branched panicles and nume- 

 rous ; or in spike-like racemes or cymes and few. Calyx small, cup-shaped 

 or cylindric, entire or J-5-toothed. Petals 4-5 or more, usually 

 linear-elongate or cylindric, at first cohering in a tube especially 

 below, at length spreading, somewhat imbricated or valvate. Sta- 

 minal tube elongate, slender, tubular, 4 to 12-lobed at the apex, lobes 

 entire or toothed ; anthers linear, equal in number to and alternate 

 with the lobes, included or somewhat oxserted. Disk short and fleshy, 

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