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each with one 'large scale connate to its margins. Stamens 8, the 

 filaments glabrous. Ovary 2-cellecl, with a solitary ovule in each cell. 

 Fruit capsular, coriaceous, obovate, compressed, 2-celled, reddish-brown 

 when ripe, pericarp fleshy, the endocarp bright scarlet. Seed black 

 with a mucilaginous coating and a basilar pink fleshy cupular arillus. — 

 DiSTRiB. 6 species from the Nicobars, Sumatra, Philippines and New 

 Guinea. 



Lepidopetalum Jackianum, Radlk. in Sitzb. Bayer. Acad. IX, 623. 

 A small tree: young branches puberulous, soon becoming glabious. 

 Leaves 6 to 12 in. long; leaflets 2 to 10, sub-alternate, oblong or ovate- 

 oblong, sub-acuminate, the base rounded or cuneate, both surfaces quite 

 glabrous and finely reticulate ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, bold beneath, 

 spreading: length 3 to 5 in, breadth 1-15 to 2 in., petiolules '15 in. 

 Racemes under 2 in. long. Floiver-buds oval, pointed ; sepals lanceolate. 

 Petals less than a third of the size of the sepals and alternate with 

 them. Stamens short, inserted at the base of the ovary, filaments 

 glabrous ; anthers hirsute, oblong. Capsule not lobed, coiiacepus, com. 

 pressed, obovate, glabrous outside, hairy inside, minutely apiculate, 

 1"25 in. long and about '8 in. broad, pedicel '25 in. long. Seed solitary, 

 black ; arillus pale pink or white, viscous. Cupania Jackiana, Hiern in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 1, 678. Qonnarus ? Jackianus, Wall. Cat. 8552. 

 Prain in Proceed. As. Soc. Beng. 1891, p. 167. 



Nicobar Islands ; Jack, Kurz, Prain. Batti Malv, Prain. 



Dr. Prain has given in the Journal above quoted an excellent ac- 

 count from the living plant of this previously little known species, and 

 from his description mine is largely taken. 



16. Paranephelidm, Miquel. 



Trees with alternate exstipulate unequally pinnate leaves: leaflets 

 opposite or sub-opposite. Flowers panicled, regular, hermapluodite (or 

 polygamous ?) 4-6-merous. Calyx deeply lobed, the lobes slightly im- 

 bricate. Petals usually 5, small, each bearing a single scutiform scale 

 larger than itself (the two forming a pouch). Disc deepi}'- excavated, 

 entire. Stamens 6 to 10, the filaments subulate, glabrous ; the anthers 

 short, 2-celled, basifixed. Ovary 3-celled, obtusely 3-angled. Fruit a 

 ligneous 3-valved capsule, externally tubercled, lobulate or spinose, 

 imperfectly 3-celled, 1- to 3-seeded. Seed large, angled, partly covered 

 by a thin arillus. Cotyledons fleshy, oily, conduplicate. — Distrib. 

 Malaya and Burma, 3 or 4 species. 



Leaflets entire, fruit lobulate ... ... 1. P. nitidum. 



Leaflets serrate, fruit echinate ... ... 2. P. macrophyllum. 



Hieru's geuus Scyphopetalum (1875) is exactly the same as Para- 



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