82 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Calyx cupular, puberulous, with 5 obscure rounded teeth. Petals 

 obovate, glabrous. Anthers oblong, mucronate. Ovary globose, pube- 

 scent, 6-celled, longer than the glabrous style. Fruit unknown. C. DC. 

 Monogr. Phaner. I, 598. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 339. 



Known only by Maingay's scanty specimens. 

 3. Lansium PEDiCELLATUM, Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 558. A 

 ti'ee ; young branches pale brown, scaly. Leaves 9 to 12 in. long, 

 unequally pinnate ; leaflets 3 to 5, alternate or sub-opposite, thinly 

 coriaceous, elliptic, shortly and sliarply acuminate ; the base oblique, 

 obtuse or cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, 

 ascending, spreading, slightly prominent beneath ; length 3 to 6 in., 

 breadth 1"5 to 2*5 in., petiolules *16 to "25 in. Male floivers and ivflo- 

 rescence unknown. Racemes of female flowers 1 to 2 in. long, axillary, 

 sometimes with a branch at the base ; flowers on pedicels '1 to '15 in. 

 long. Ovary minutely tomentose, 4-celled ; stigma sessile. Young 

 fruit sub-globose, fleshy, shortly tomentose. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 356. 



The above description is drawn up from the only two specimens 

 which I have seen, and from Hiern's and De Candolle's descinptions. 

 There is nothing in it to connect the species absolutely with Lansium, 

 the genus in which its author has placed it. 



9. Walsuka, Roxb. 



Trees. Leaves 1-9-foliolate ; leaflets opposite, entire, pale beneath. 

 Panicles axillary and terminal ; Flowers small, hermaphrodite. Calyx 

 short, 5-fid or -partite, the lobes spreading, imbricated in bud. Petals 

 5, ovate-oblong, spreading, slightly imbricated or sub-valvate. Filaments 

 10 or 8, linear or flattened, free or connate in a tube ; anthers terminal 

 or inserted in the notch at the apex of the filament. Dish usually 

 annular, fleshy. Ovary short, 2-3-celled, imbedded in the disk, style 

 rather short ; stigma turbinate-capitate, 2-3-dentate; Ovules 2 in each 

 cell. Fruit baccate, shortly tomentose, indehiscent, 1- rarely 2-celled 

 and -seeded ; seed inclosed in a fleshy aril, exalbuminous. Distrib. 

 about 12 species, Indo-Malayan. 



Filaments united near the base. 



Leaflets 5 to 9, with 5 or 6 pairs of main 



lateral nerves ... ... 1. W. multijuga. 



Leaflets not more than 5, with 8 to 10 



pairs of main lateral nerves. v 



Stigma discoid, fruit not apiculate 2. W. neurodes, 

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