Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninstda. ^i^S 



Ovary obcoi'date, 2-Iobed, pubescent, style glabrous. Fruit usually with 

 Only one properly developed lobe (tlie other sub-aborted) oval and 

 blunt, or sub-globose, glabrous, 1 in. long and -5 iu. in diam. ; wheu 

 globular '5 to '6 in. in diam. Irina aluifolia, Blume Rumphia III, 117. 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 3790, 6949, 7774, 7983, 8212 ; Scoi-te- 

 chini, No. 113 ; Wray, No 1336. Singapore: Ridley, 6372. Peuang : 

 Curtis, No. J600. 



A species with much smaller leaves leaflets and inflorescence than 

 P. })i7inata, Forst. Miquel (Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 558) reduces it to 

 T. tomentosa, Bl. which is in my opinion doubtfully distinct from T. 

 Slahra, Blume. But P. aluifolia appears to me a perfectly good distinct 

 species recognisable at a glance from evei-y form of P. piniiata, Forst. 



Besides the preceding there are in the Herbarium Calcutta two species 

 of Pometia which, for want of complete material, I do not describe. One 

 of these is from Penang (Curtis, No. 1668). It has entire leaflets some- 

 what like those of P. aluifolia, and globular fruit. Fluwers are quite 

 wanting. For it I propose the name P. Curtisii. Tlie other is from 

 Negri Sembilan, communicated by Mr. H. N. Ridley. It also has leaflets 

 somewhat like those of P. alnifolia, but broader and with entire undu- 

 late edges. The inflorescence and flowers ai'e quite glabrous. Fruit 

 is wanting. To this I have given the MSS. name P. Bidleyi. 



11. Gt7Ioa, Cav. 



Erect shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, exstipulate ; leaflets 1 to 6 

 •(rarely 10) pairs ; more or less lanceolate, oblique, entire, often coria- 

 ceous. Flowers in simple or branched racemes, axillary or from the axils 

 of fallen leaves, sub-globose in bud. Sepals 5, ovate-rotund, thick, con- 

 cave, imbricate in 2 rows, pubescent at the edges. Petals 5, each with 2 

 pectinate scales. Disc entire, annular, or semilunar, or crescentic. 

 Stamens 8. Ovary 3-angled, with a single curved style and 3-lobed 

 stigma. Fruit sessile or pedicelled, obliquely obcordate, boldly 3-winged, 

 glabrous, the interior of the pericarp cartilaginous. Seeds wholly or 

 partly enveloped in a thin arillus with 2 flexuose appendages. Coty- 

 ledons fleshy and oily, the inner obliquely conduplicate ; the radicle 

 inferior. — Distrib. About 33 species Malayan and Australian. 



Rachises of the leaves narrowly winged ... 1. G. pleuropteris. 



Rachises of the leaves terete 



Leaflets glabrous on both surfaces ... 2. G. squamosa. 



Leaflets sparsely pubescent on the upper, 



pubescent on the lower sux'face... ... 3. G. fuscidula. 



Leaflets densely tomentose on the lower sur- 



ii^co ... ... „. ... 4. G. pubesceus. 



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