Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Ftuinsula. 419 



scanty, -25 in. in diam. Miq. in Ann.Mus. Lujjd. Bat. I, 98 : Kuiz in 

 Journ. As. Soo. Ben.ir. Vol. 44, pt. 2, pp. 178, 180 ; Flora Bm-ma I, 281 ; 

 C. B. Chirke in Trimen's Jouin. Bot. for 1881, 163. L. hiita, Hornem. 

 riort. Hafn. I, 237: Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey 11,469: ed. 1^32,11, 

 656 ; Blume Bijdr. 197 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vul. 1, pt. 2, p. 612; Wall. 

 Cat. 6822 ; Dene in Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Ill, 446; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. 

 I„ pt. 2, p. 612 ; Lawson in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 668. L. hirsuta, 

 Bl. Bijdr. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bnt. 1, pt. 2, p. 612. 



Perak : Scortecliiiii, King's Collector, No. 4337. Qnedali : King's 

 Collector, No. 1725. Andaman Islands : Kurz, King's Collector. — 

 DisxRiB. Java, Sumatra. 



This species is, as Mr. C. B. Claike lias well pointed out, at oiu;e 

 recognisable by the caiious glandular discs on the under surface ot the 

 leaf — a chaiacter found in no other species of the genus. 



Order XXXIV. Sapindack^e. 



Trees, shrubs, or rarely climbing herbs. Leaves alternate, rarely 

 opposite, exstipulate or occasionally stipulate, pinnate, palraate-trifolio- 

 late or simple ; leaflets opposite or nlternate, entire or dentate, rarely 

 lobed. Floivers mostly polygamo-dioecious and small, usually either 

 ii-repfnlar or unsymmetrical. Calyx mostly 4-5-lobed, or witli 4-5 sepnls ; 

 sepals or lobes often unequal, imbricate or valvate in the bud. Petals iree, 

 equal or unequal, usually 4-5 or 0, often bearded or squamate at the base 

 within. Vise annular or unilateral, rarely (in c? flowers) deficient. 

 Stamens 5-10, inserted inside the disc at the base of the ovary or out- 

 side or on the disc, sometimes unilateral ; anthers 2-celled, hasidxed or 

 versatile ; filaments often pubescent, almost always free. Ovary centric 

 or excentric, entire or lobed, or sometimes divided nearly to the base, 

 1-3-celled. Style simple or divided, usually terminal ; stigma usually 

 simple. Ovules usually 1 rarely 2 or more in each cell, affixed 

 to the axis of the ovary, ascending. Fruit capsular or indehiscent, 

 entire or lobed, sometimes winged. Seeds globose or compressed, arillatc 

 or nnked, ex;ill)uminous, rarely albuminous. Embryo usually thick, 

 somnfimes plicate or spirally convolute. — DiSTRiD. About 550 to 800 

 species scattered over the whole world. 



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