452 MuteriaU for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Wall, ir, 442: ed. 1832 I, 6i5. A tall tree: yoang parts mi- 

 nutely tawny, puberulous. Leaves 12 to 18 in. long, the rachises 

 slightly puberulous ; leaflets 6 to 12, opposite or alternate, oblong to 

 ellipfcic-lauceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, the base obliquely 

 cuueate, both surfaces glubrous ; main nerves 8 to 12 pairs, curving 

 Tlpvvai'ds, puberulous or glabrous : length 2*5 to 8 in., breadth 1"35 to 

 2'75 in., petiolule '15 in. Panicles with few shoit branches, terminal 

 or axillary, puberulous, Floioers large, "3 in. in diam. Sepals 5, free, 

 unequal, broadly oblong or sub-iofcund, minutely pubescent outside. 

 Petals 5, narrower than the sepals but longer. Stamens 5, shorter than 

 the petals, the antlier.s oblong. JJisc small puberulons. Ocary broadly 

 ovoid, compressed, grooved, pubescent; style short, reflexeii; stigma small, 

 2-lobed. j^rm^ capsular, broadly reniform, compressed, 2-lobed, glabrous 

 Seed semioval, the aril orani^e-coloui-ed and covering the whole seed. 

 Hiern in Hook. fil. PI. Bv. Ind. I, 692 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 

 570 : Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 287 : Wall. Cat. 8078. Harpullia rnpestris, 

 Bl. Rumphia, III, 175. H. frmticosa, Bl. I. c. 179. H. fraxinifolia, 

 Bl. I. c 176. H. thanatophora, Bl. /. c. 178. Streptostigma viridiflerisimy 

 Thwaites in Hook. Kew Journ., VI, 298, t. 9. 



Perak : King'^s Collector, Nos. 1015, 7074 ; Scortechini. Anda- 

 mans : King's Collector. 



19. Tdrpinia, Vent. 



Trees or shrubs with glabrous and shining leaves, and smooth terete 

 branches. I>«ay(.'s opposite, stipulate, usually odd-pinnate; Zeq//e^s opposite, 

 stipellate, serrulate, sub-coriaceous. Panicles tei^minal and axillarj'^; Jloivers 

 small, regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-partite, imbricated. Petals 5, 

 imbricated. Stamem 5, inserted outside the lobed or crenulate raised 

 disc^ filamsnts flattened; anthers sliort. Ooary sessile, 3-lohed and 

 -celled ; styles 3, combined or distinct \ stigmas sub-capitate ; ovules 2 to- 

 gether or more and then in two rows. Fi-nit sub-globose, indehiscent, 

 3-celled. Seeds anguLir ; testa hard, shining ; hihini large ; alhimen 

 fleshy ; aril 0. Emhryo straight. — DiSTRiB. About ten species in sub- 

 tropical Asia and America. 



T'tTRPiNiA. poMib'BREA, DCProd. II, 3. A tree 30 to 40 feet high, all 

 parts glabrous. Leaves stipulate, 8 to 15 in. long', mostly unequally 

 pinnate ; leaflets 5 to 10, thinly coriaceous, oblong or oblong-lanceolute, 

 shortly acuminate, the edges serrate, the base cuneate ; main nerves 

 5 or 6 pairs, remote, ascending ; length 2*5 to 8 in., breadth 1 to 3 in., 

 petiolules of the lateral leaflets "25 to '35 in., of the terminal one vary- 

 ing from 1 to 2 in. ; stipules interpetiolar or triangular, caducuous. Pani- 

 c?cs spreading, shorter than the leaves; the branches diverging, brac- 



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