MatcriitU for a Flura of /he Malm/an Feiiinsnla. 425 



braiious ; embryo straight ; cotyledons tliick. — Distrib. Species 4, tliree 

 tropical Asiatic and one African. 



Erioglossum elule, Blumo Bijdr. 229. A lar'_'e slirnb or tree ; 

 young shoots petioles and racldses of leaves and inflorescence more or 

 less rustj-pabesceiit. Leaves 8 to 20 in. long ; leaflets 4 to 13, oblono'. 

 lanceolate to elliptic, acute or acuminate, slightly oblique especially at 

 the cuneate base, upper surface sparsely puberulous to f^lala-escent. the 

 midrib tomentose ; tlie l^uvver softly tonientose to glaberulous and usually 

 dark-coloured ; main nerves 6 to 10 pairs, length 25 to 7 in., breadth 

 '75 to 2'25 in. Panicles sometimes longer than the leaves. Flowers on 

 short pedicels, clustered, sub-globular, "1 to "15 in. in diam. Fruit glal)- 

 rous, the lobes oblong, 4 in. long. Benth. Fl. Austral, I, 454 ; Hiern 

 in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 672. E. rtibiginosum, Brand. For. Fl. 108. 

 Pancovia ruhiginosa, 13aill. Kuiz For. Flora Burma, I, 296. Moulinsia 

 cujjiiniuides, Catnbess. in Mem. Mus. Par. XVIII. 27, 40, t. 2. Sapindus 

 rnhitiinosa, Roxb. Cor. PI. I, 44, t. 62 ; Fl. Iiid. II, 282 ; W. and A. 

 Prodr. I, 112 ; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PI. 29 ; Wall. Cat. 8041 ; GiifP. Notnl. 

 IV, 548; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Snppl. 14; Wall. Cat. 8041D. 

 8. fraxinifoliiis, DC. Prodr. I, 603. M. rubiyinosa, G. Don Gen. Syst. 

 I, 607. S. lougifolius, Wall. Cat. 8046. 



In all the Provinces : rather common. 



5. Aphakia, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs with pinnate {usually equally) exstipulate rarely 

 with simple leaves ; leaflets I to 6 pairs. Floivers in panicles or 

 racemes. Sepals 4 or 5, widely imbricate. Petals 4 to 6, small, with 

 infolded basal auricles or with a basal scale. Disc reo:ular, slightly 

 lobed. iStamens 5, rarely 3. Fruit deeply divided into 2 (rarely into 3) 

 ellipsoid or sub-3-gonous divergent lobes united only at the base ; the 

 endocarp thin cartilaginous or crustaceous. — Distrib. about 12 species, 

 troj)ical Asiatic and African, one iu New Guinea. 

 Leaves pinnate. 



Inflorescence racemose ... ... 1. A. patccijnga. 



Inflorescence paniculate ... ..» 2. A. viontana. 



Leaves simple ... ... ... 3. ^. Dannra. 



1. Aphakia paucijuga, Radlk. in Sitzb. Bayer. Akad. Math. Phys. 

 IX, (1878), 239. A tree 60 feet high ; young branches cinereous- 

 puberulous or glabrous. Leaves 6 to 8 in. h)ng, their rachises with 3 

 faint ridges on the upper surface: leaflets 2 to 4, opposite, oblong- 

 lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, bluntly acuminate, much narrowed at 

 the base ; both surfaces quite glabrous, the upper shining, the lower 

 pakr and dull ; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, spreading, not conspicuous : 



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