444 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1. GuiOA PLEUROPTEEis, Radlk. in Sitzb. Bayer, Akad. Matli. 

 Phys. IX (1839), p. 611. A shrub or sometimes a tree : young branches 

 minutely rusty -pubescent. Leaves 4< to 7 in. long, their i acliises nar- 

 x-owly winged and puberulous, usually unequally pinnate : leaflets 3 

 to 7, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblanceolate, acute or broadly and shortly 

 cuspidate, the base cuneate.: upper surface with short scattered hairs j 

 the lower pale, minutely punctate and more pubescent than the upper ; 

 main nerves about 5 pairs, rather distinct beneath : length 2*5 to 4"5 

 in., breadth 1 to 1"75 in., petiolules "1 in. Racemes branched, 2 to 4 in. 

 long. Fruit "75 in. broad, the wings narrow, contracted below into 

 a short pseudostalk, pedicel "3 in. long. Cupania pleuropteris, Blame 

 Rumphia III, 158 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 564 ; C . pleuropteris var. 

 apiculata, Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 677. Cupania Griffi,thiana, 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beug. Vol. XLIV, pt. 2, (1875), p. 188, in part ; 

 For, Flora Burma, I, 284. 



Malacca: Maingay, No. 442. Johore : Ridley, No. 4064. Pahaug: 

 Ridley. Perak : King's Collector, Nus. 311, 1136. — Distbib. Sumatra 

 Rieu, Borneo. 



Var. hijuga. Leaflets 2 pairs, the rachis slightly dilated towards the 

 apex. G. hijuga, Radlk. I. c. 611. Cupania pleuropteris, var. bijuga, 

 Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 677. C. (indeterminata) Wall. Cat. 

 8094. G . Gi-ij^ithiana, KviVT^ iu. Journ. As. Soc Beng. XLIV, pt. 2, 

 (1875), p. 188. 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 984. Maingay, No 137. 



2. GuiOA SQUAMOSA, Radlk. in. Sitzb. Bayer. Akad. Math. Phys. IX 

 (1879), p. 609. A slender ti^ee from 20 to 30 feet high ; young branches 

 rusty-puberulous, dark-colonred when dry. Leaves 6 to 10 in. long, 

 sometimes foveolate or punctate beneatli ; leaflets 4 to 8 pairs, lanceo- 

 late to ovate-lanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, sub-falcate, the 

 base narrowed and oblique ; both surfaces glabi'ous ; main nerves 8 

 to 10 pairs, rather distinct beneath, curving, the secondary nerves and 

 reticulations distinct. Panicles raceme-like, 2 or 3 in. long, almost 

 glabi'ous. Fruit 1 in. across, the wings broad, subundulate, suddenly 

 narrowed to a short stout pseudo-stalk ; the style persistent, broad at 

 the base : pedicel 2"5 in. long. Ctipania regularis, Kurz (not of Blume) 

 Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. XLIV, pt. 11 (1876), 168. Cupania gla- 

 hrata, Hiern (not of -Kurz), Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 676. Sapindus 

 squamosus, Wall, (not of Roxb.) and Cat. No. 8097 ; " Connaracea ? "' 

 Wall. Cat. 8550. 



Penang : Wallich, King's Collector, No. 1516. .Singapore : Ridley, 

 No. 6209a. Malacca : ' Griffith.— Distrib. Java ; Burma, Heifer, No. 

 983. 



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