418 Materials for a Mora of the Malayan Peninmtd. 



6 in., breadth I'S to 2 in., petiolules 'IS. Panicles of a few racemose 

 branches on which the flowers ai-e arranged as shortly stalked cymes, 

 sliglitly piiberulous. Fntit -25 in in diam. truncately pyriform, boldly 

 3-angled, crowned by the short style and narrowed at the base into a 

 thin pseudo'Stalk longei^ than itself, pedicel '15 in. long. Gupania 

 Lessertiana, Camb. Mem. Mas. XVIII, 46 t. 3 ; Hasskarl PI. Jav. Rar. 

 285 5 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 566; Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. I, 678 ; Radlk.- 1, c. 646. Molinaea ? Wall. Cat. 8092. 



Singapore : Wallich. Malacca: Maiiigay, No. 438 ; Ridley, No. 1908. 

 Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 4186, 7265 ; Scortechini, Nos. 953, 1458. 

 Andamans: King's Collector. Penang : Curtis, No. 2433. — DiSTRlB. 

 Burma (Heifer, No. 991) : Assam. Khasia, Chittngong. 



This species differs very little from M". fuscescens. It has, how- 

 ever, a less pubescent inflorescence, three petals are often present in the 

 flowers, and the fruit is sharply 3-angled. The young branches in this 

 are puberulous, whereas those of M. fuscescens are quite glabrous. 



The fruit of this while young is sharply 3-angled; but as it 

 ripens the angles become obliterated and it closely resembles that of 

 M. Sumatranus and M. fuscescens. This species may, however, be dis- 

 tinguished from these by its smaller leaflets with fewer nerves. 



3. MiscHOCARPUs SUMATRANUS, Blume, Rumphia III, 368. A tree 

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

 5 to 12 in. long, with angled rachises : leaflets 4 to 8, elliptic-oblong, 

 sub-acuminate, the base cuneate, both surfaces minutely reticulate and 

 shining; main nerves 9 to 12 pairs, curved, the secondary almost as 

 prominent; length 4 to 8 in., breadth 1'15 to 225 in., petiolules '2 

 to "25 in. Panicles as in M. fxiscescens. Petals 0. Fruit pyriform, '3 in. 

 in diam., not angled, pseudo-stalk shorter than the fruit and also than 

 the pedicel, pedicel '2 in. Radlk. I. c. 646. Gupania sumatrana, Miq. 

 'Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. 1, pt. II, 566 ; Hiern in Hook. fll. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 678. 



Perak : Scortechini, Nos. 97, 484; King's Collector, Nos. 3933, 

 •5278, 5391, 5397, 5727, 8307, 8329, 8374, 8403. 



This is veiy closely allied to M. fuscescens which differs in having 5 

 minute caducous petals. In all other respects the two agree ; and, in 

 my own opinion they ought not both to rank ns species. I keep both 

 up however out of deference to Radlkofer whose monograph is a signal 

 example of careful woik. 



15. Lepidopetamim, Blume, 



Small ti'ees with 2- to 4-jugate pinnate leaves, the leaflets ovate- 

 lanceolate, entire. Eacenies axillary, a few inches long, or ihyrsiform. 

 'Sepals 4, waited at the base, yalvate. Petals 4, smaller than the sepals, 



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