446 MateriaUfor a Flora of the MaJnijan Peninsula, 



in. long; their rfichises tereto, glabrous; leaflets 11 to 15, natTowly 

 oblong-lanceolate, shining on both surfaces : main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, 

 faint, spreading; length 2 to 3-5 in., breadth "6 to -8 in, petiolnles 

 "2 in. Racemes paniculate, ei"ect, terminal or axillary, tawny-toraentose, 

 the flowers on long tomentose bracteoTate pedicels. Calyx tomentose 

 externally. Stamens long-exserted, fche filaments hairy. Fruit apiculate, 

 nearly 2 in. long and 1-2 in. in diam. Giipania acuta, Hiern in Book, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, Q^Q. Sapindacea, Wall. Cat. 9036. 



Singapore : Wallich, Hulletfc ; Ridley, No. 4648. Pahang : Ridley. 

 Malacca : Maingay, No. 445, 



13. Abytera, Blume. 



Shrubs or trees with pinnate 1-5-jagate leaves : the teaflets elliptie' 

 or lanceolate,, entire, sometimes foveolate in the nerve-axils underneath, 

 Panicles axillary or terminal. Calyx small, cupular ; the sepals 5,- 

 imbricate. Pe/aZs 5, each with 2 pectinate basal scales. Disc entire^ 

 annular. Stamens 8. Frmt 2- to 3-celled, shortly stipitate, lobed ; the 

 lobes elliptic, obcordate or obovate,^ always divaricate : the pericarp 

 fleshy outside, sclerenchymatous inside. Seed entirely or almost entirely 

 enveloped in an iiiappendicul-ate arillus ; cotyledons thick, fleshy, super- 

 posed, radicle short, — Distrib, Malayan Archipelago and Peniusula, 

 S. China and Australasia ; about twenty species. 



Arytera littoralts, Blume Rumphia, III, J70. A tree 25 to 30 feet 

 liigh : young branches rusty- puberulous. ieori'e* abruptly pinnate, 6 to 13 

 in. long, their rachisesrusty-puberulous becoming glabrescent, not winged; 

 leaflets 2 or 3 pairs, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sub-acuminate, the base 

 cuneate, both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, slightly 

 prominent beneath, ascending, curved ; length 3 to 6 in., breadth 1'5 

 to 3 in. ; petiolules '25 in., stout. Panicles axillary, short, many- 

 branched, rusty-puberuloas. Flowers minute. Calyx with 5 short teeth,- 

 pubescent outside. Petals 5, slightly longer than the calyx, broadly 

 cuneate, obliquely emarginate or bifid at the apex, pubescent on the 

 upper surface. Anthers puberulous, filaments hairy. Fruit coriaceous, 

 glabrous, 2-lobed ; the lobes usually compressed, oblong, blunt, one of 

 them often smaller than the other. Radlkofer in Sitzb. Bayer. 

 Akad. Math. Phys. IX, (1875), p. 552. Gupania adenophylla, Planch, ex 

 Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 677 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 285. 

 Sapiiidus adenoplyllus, Wall. Cat. 8044. 



Malacca: Griffith, Maingay, No. 439. Andamans : King's Col- 

 lectors. Nicobars : Jelinek. Pahang : Ridley, No. 2162. — DiSTRlB. 

 Burma: Heifer, 989; Griffith, 988. Sumatra: Forbes, No. 2624. 



Var. major. A tree 30 to 70 feet high ; leaflets with 12 to 14 

 pairs of nerves : hbes of fruit oblong, only slightly compressed. 

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