70 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



diam. Galgx campannlate, pubescent-lepidote outside, the month -with 

 6 large rounded teeth. Petals 5, longer than the calyx, elliptic, gla- 

 brous. Staminal tube shorter than the petals, obovoid-globose, gla- 

 brous, the month with 5 shallow broad blunt teeth ; antliei'S 5, ovate- 

 ellipsoid, included, shorh. Ovary rather broad, pubescent, with a large 

 glabrous conical 2-lobed stigma. Fruit (young) globular-obovoid, 

 2-celIed ; the pericarp fleshy, cinereous-pubescent extei-nally. 



Perak: King's Collector, No. 8619 ; Wray, No. 3763. 



J5. Aglaia ARGENTt'A, Blume Bijdr. 170. A slender tree 10 to 15 

 or 20 feet high ; young shoots, petioles, racbises, petiolules, infloi'escences 

 and under surfaces of the leaves densely covered with a layer of minute 

 tomentum with many stellate hairs and flat shining white or pale- 

 bi'own scales intermixed and on the surface. Leaves 24 to 30 in. long, 

 unequally pinnate ; leaflets 7 to 11, alternate, the odd one and the upper 

 pairs often much the largest, thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to 

 ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, the odd leaflet and often also the upper pair 

 often much cuneate at the base, the lower pairs often rounded, occasion- 

 ally minutely cordate and sub-sessile, the apices of all more or less acu- 

 minate : upper surface glabrous, the lower shining silvery to pale brown; 

 main nerves 12 to 2 i pairs, inconspicuous on the upper bold and pro- 

 minent on the lower sui'f ace ; lengtii of the lower leaflets 5 to 9 in., of 

 the terminal one 12 to 15 in., breadth 2 to 5 in., petiolules "2 in. Pani- 

 cles supra-axillary, pedunculate, spreading, very dense, 3 to 5 in. long. 

 Flowers crowded, numerous, sessile, sub-globulai', "08 in. in dia.ii., 

 Calyx half as long as the corolla, deeply divided into 5 broad rounded 

 imbricate concave lobes, furfuraceous-lepidote externally, glabrous in- 

 ternally. Petals 5, concave, orbicular, glabrous. Staminal tube globular, 

 shorter than the petals, the mouth sub-entire ; anthers 5, ovate, included. 

 Ovary depressed ; stigma sub-cylindric, truncate, glabrous. Fruit ovoid 

 or obovoid, minutely rusty-pubescent and lepidote, '8 to r25 in. long, 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Yol. 1, Pt. 2, 543 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV, 54 ; 

 Kurz For. Flor. Burma I, 219; C. DC. Monogr. Phaner. I, 618. A. 

 hypoleuca, Miq. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 507. A speciosa, Teysm, and Biim. 

 Cat. Hort. Bogor. 211 (not of Blume). Milnea argentea, Reinw. in 

 Cat. Hort. Bogor. 71. 



Perak: King's Collector, No. 3135. Nicobar Islands, Kurz. — Distrib. 

 Burma, Sumatra, Java, New Guinea. 



This is a widely distributed and variable species of which Miquel 

 (Ann. Mus. Lu.gd. Bat. IV, 55) enumerates no less than seven varieties, 

 most of which he had himself previously treated as species. In young 

 shoots the leaflets are often few but very large. 



Var. pocimia, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV, 55. Flmvnrs ovoid ; 



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