450 Materials for a i'loi-a of the Malayan Peninsula. 



nephelivm which da<es from 1860. Miquel's genus Mildea (published 

 ill 1867), appears also to be reducible to this. The still older genus of 

 Compositae bearing the name Paranephdius, Poepp. et. End), dates from 

 18412 : but ifc has been found to be reducible to Liahum, Adans. 



1. Paranephelium NiTiDDM, King n. sp. A tree 40 to 60 feet 

 high : young branches slender, terete, glabious, lenticellate. Leaves 

 15 to 18 in. long, their rachises grooved : leaflets 5 to 9, coriaceous, 

 oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, bluntly acuminate, entire, 

 much narrowed to the base ; both surfaces glabrous and shining ; main 

 nerves 14 to 16 pairs, curving, slightly prominent beneath ; length 4*5 

 to 6"5 in., breadth 1'5 to r75 in,, petiolules '25 in. Panicles axillary, 

 3 or 4 in. long, few-bi'anched, very lax ; the ultimate branchlets few- 

 flowered, cymulose. Flowers '2 in. in diam., the style long-projecting, 

 ovary rusty-pilose ; stigmas 3, short, recurved. Fruit woody, depressed- 

 globular, the surface deeply and irregularly lobulate, shortly apiculate, 

 covered with brown scurf, 3-seeded ; depth '75 in., breadth 1 in. 

 (unripe). 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 7410, 7416. 



2. Paranephelidm macrophyllum, King n. sp. A tree 20 to 40 

 feet high : all parts except the inflorescence glabrous. Leaves 18 to 30 

 in. long, the rachises terete ; leaflets 6 to 9, sub-opposite, coriaceous, 

 oblong, shortly and abruptly cuspidate, the edges with few remote 

 serrations, cuneate at the base ; main nerves 18 to 28 pairs, spreading, 

 depressed on the upper and prominent on the lower surface ; length 6 to 

 15 in., breadth 25 to 4'5 in. ; petiolules "35 in., stout. Panicles pubes- 

 cent, axillary, erect, few-branched, about 12 in. long, the ultimate 

 branchlets cymose. Floivers '2 in in diam. Stamens 8, inserted on the 

 edge of the cupular glabrous lobulate disc. Ovary sub-globular, rusty- 

 pilose. Fruit globular, woody, the whole surface covered with thick 

 spines, 3-celled, ]-3-Reeded ; diam. to end of spines 1 to 1*5 in. (unripe). 



Perak : Scortechini j King's Collector, Nos. 3157, 3204, 6436, 7027 

 Wray, JSTo. 2675. 



17. DODON^A, Linn. 



Shi'ubs rarely trees. Leaves simple (in the only Malayan 

 species) alternate, exstipulate. Liflorescence lateral and terminal. 

 Flowers polygamous, inconspicuous, Sepals 5-2, imbricated or valvate. 

 Petals 0. Stamens 10-5, usually 8, inserted on the outer side of the disc ; 

 filaments short ; anthers linear oblong. Disc obsolete in the male flower, 

 small in the female. Ovary 3-6-sided and -celled ; style 3-6-sided, its apex 

 3-6-cleft. Ovules 2 together, collateral or superposed. Capsule com- 

 pressed, membranous, septicidally 2-Yalved j valves winged at the 



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