Materials for a PJora of the Malayan Peninsula. 447 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 695, 885, 4456 ; Scovtechini, No. 20 ; 

 Wray, No. 316. Singapore : Ridley, No. 5995. Selaugor : Ridley, 

 No. 1609. 



14. MisdfloCARPTia, BL 



Trees with alternate exstipalate unequally pinnate leaves : leaflets 

 1 to 5 pairs, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, entire, usually glabrous. 

 Racemes axillary, simple or branched. Calyx small, cup-shaped, 

 5-partifce, the segments imbricate. Petals 5, each with 2 large pecti-» 

 nate scales, or absent. Disc entire, annular. Stamens 8 or fewer. 

 Fruit pyriform, blunt, 3-angled or 3-grooved, or smooth, pedicelled, rarely 

 sessile, 3-celled : the pericarp thin, fleshy, sclerenchymatous inside. 

 Seeds more or less completely enveloped in a thin arillus with 2 spur- 

 like processes near its base. Cotyledons lying above each other, radicle 

 short. — Dtstrib. About a dozen species, Malayan and Austi'alasian. 

 Petals 5, minute, caducous ... ... 1. M. fuscescens. 



Petals 0. 



Fruit truncately pyriform, boldly 3-angled... 2. M.sundiacus. 

 Pr ait pyriform, not trnticate, not angled ... 3. M. sumatranus. 



1. MiscHOCARPUS FUSCESCENS, Blume Rumphia III, IQQ. A tree 

 50 to 70 feet high : all parts except the inflorescence glabrous. Leaves 

 9 to 12 in. long, equally or unequally pintiate ; leaflets 4 to 6, elliptic- 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sub-acuminate, cuneate at the base, both 

 surfaces sliining and finely reticulate, foveolate in the axils beneath ; 

 main nerves 12 to 15 pairs, slightly conspicuous beneath, curving : length 

 4 to 8 in., breadth 1'5 to 2 in. ; petiolules "25 in., stout. Panicles 

 axillary or terminal, erect puberulous ; the branches few, racemose 

 with the flowers in small cymes. Calyx sub-valvate. Petals 5, minute. 

 Stamens 8. Disc hairy. Ovary pyriform, entii'e, stipitate. Fruit obovoid, 

 with a faint vertical I'idge, glabrous, "4 in. long, its pseudo-stalk '25 in. 

 long. Radlk. l.,c. 646. C up ania fuscescens, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 

 2, 567; G. Helferi, Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 679. 



Selangor : Ridley, No. 19 J 6. Perak : King's Collector, No. 2689; 

 Scortechini.— DrsTRiB. British India : Sylliet, Wall. Cat. 8018, 9035. 

 Burma : Griffith, 987 ; Heifer, 982/1. 



2. MiscHOCARPDS suNDiAcus, Blumc Bijdr. 238 ; Rumphia III, 167. 

 A tree 25 to 50 feet high ; young branches slightly puberulous or glabrous. 

 Leaves 6 to 10 in. long, equally or unequally pinnate ; leaflets 3 to 6, 

 elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sub-acuminate, cuneate and some- 

 times slightly oblique at the base : both surfaces glabrous, shining 

 and very minutely reticulate ; the lower paler, foveolate in the axils of 

 the 8 to 10 pairs of faint ascending carving maia nerves : length 25 to 



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