424 Matfirtals for a Flora of the Malayan Ppninsula. 



3. DlTTELASMA, Hook. fil. 



A tree. Leaves altei-nate, pinnsite, exsti pn 1 ato ; Z/^a^eis suboppo.site 

 or altei'iiafce, entii-e. Panicle's tei-iniiial, bracfceate. Flowers polyganio- 

 montnous. Sepals 5, o'jloiii^, r.)uiKlecl at tlie apex, unequal. Petals 4, 

 erect, oblong, concave, toraentose outside, the place of the fifth vacant; 

 scale large obovate-obloiig, densely sliaggy-crested, incurved at the apex. 

 Disc semilnnate-annulai", much wider at one side, glabrous. Stamens 

 8, inserted ai'ound the liase of the ovary, unequal ; Jilaments villous, 

 slender at the tip ; anthers small, shortly exserted. Ovary sub-globose, 

 glabrous, 3-lobed, 3-celled. contracted at the apex into a short erect style, 

 stigma shortly 3-lobed ; otJnZe soli tai-y in each cell. Fruit 1-3-coccous, 

 2 segments usually smallei' or obsolete, rather fleshy, indehiscent. Seed 

 globose, exai'illate, exalbuniinons ; testa thick, bony ; embryo curved ; 

 cotyledons large, unequal, incurved ; radicle short, incumbent. — Distrib. 

 A single species. 



DlTTELASMA Rarak, Hook. fil. in Ben til. and Hook. fil. Gren. 

 Plantar. I, 396. A tree 50 or 60 feet higli ; young branches stout, with 

 pale puberulons bark. Leaves 10 to 18 in. long ; leaflets 6 to 12 pairs, 

 usually oblong-lanceolate, i*arely oblong-oblanceolate, often sliglitly ob- 

 lique, the apex acute, the base cnneate, quite glabrous ; main nerves 

 numerous, faint ; length 3 to 4 in., bi'eadth "75 to 1*5 in., petiolule '1 in. 

 or less. Panicles terminal, erect, many-branched, puberulous, usually 

 shorter than tlie leaves. Flotvers "2 in. long, pale yellow or white. 

 Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 1, 672 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, 1, 297. 

 Snpinxhis Barak, DC. Prodr. I, 608; Blume Rumph. III. 93, t. 197. 

 ? S. pinnatus, Mill. Gard. Diet. No. 3. S. saponaria, Lour. FI. 

 Cocliinch. 238 (not of Linn.) — Rumph. Herb. Amboin. II, 134. 



Malacca : Grifiith, Maingay. — Distrib. Burma, Cochin-Cliina, Java. 



4. EiuOGLOSsuM, Blume, 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves unequally-pinnate, exstipulate, alternate. 

 Leaflets opposite or subopposite, entire. Panicles terminal, erect, with 

 elongated racemose branches. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, irregular, 

 white. Sepals 5, unequal, orbicular, concave, imbricated, the two outer 

 ones smaller. Petals 4, unequal, obovate, clawed, the place of the 5th 

 vacant; scale hairy, hooded, with an apical lobed appendage. Disc one- 

 sided, h>bed. Stamens 8, turned to one side ; filaments unequal, hairy, 

 anthers sub-exserted. Ovary stipilate, obcordate, 3-h)bed, 3-celled ; style 

 slender, stigma obscurely 3-lobed : ovulf^s solitary in the cells of the 

 ovary, ascending. Fruit 1-3 lobed to the base ; the lobes oblong, inde- 

 hiscent, diverging. Seeds oblong, exarlllate, exalbuminous, testa mem- 



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