492 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninstila. 



collected by Mr. L. Wray in Pei^ak. These have enabled Dr. Stapf, 

 of the Kew Herbarium, and rayself to refer the plant to the genus 

 Swinto7t{a, its nearest allies hemg S. florihunda and *S. Schivenhii. In 

 Wray's field note on his specimens he writes " flower pale-greenish- 

 yellow : leaves sliining, bright green above ; pale and bluish, beneath." 



8. Parishia, Hook. fil. 



Tall trees with alternate unequally-pinnnte leaves ; the leaflets 

 coriaceous, entire. Panicles large, nodding. Flowers dioecious. Male 

 FLOWER. Calyx cupular, 4-lobed ; the lobes ovate, valvate. Petals 4, 

 oblong, imbricate. Disc short, annular, obscurely 4-lobed. Stamens 

 4, inserted below the margin of the disc. RtuUmentury ovary cylindric. 

 Female FLOWER. Calyx 4-lobed, the lobes persistent and greatly en- 

 larged in fruit. Petals 4. Ovary sessile, ovoid, 1-celled ; style terminal, 

 unequally 3-fid, stigmas capitate ; ovule pendulous from near the apex 

 of the cell. Frtiit sub-globose, dry, pubescent, bearing the persistent 

 base of the style at its apex, the pericarp thin. Seed pendulous, its 

 testa membranous ; cotyledons amygdaloid, radicle superior. — Distrib. 

 5 species, all either Burmese or Malayan. 



Wings of accrescent-calyx 25 to 3 in. long ... 1. P. insignis. 



Wings of accrescent-calyx 4-5 in. and upwards in 



length. 



Leaflets glabrous beneath, the midrib and 



nerves veiy elightly puberulous... ... 2. P. Maingayi. 



Leaflets rusty-pubescent on the lower surface 3. P, pubescevs. 



1. Parishia Insignis, Hook. fil. in Ti-ans. Linn. Soc. XXIII, 170, 

 t. 26. A tall tree ; young branches stout, lenticellate, rusty-puberulous. 

 Leaves 12 to 20 in. long, the rachis cylindric : leaflets^ to 9 pairs, thinly 

 coriaceous, obliquely ovate-oblong to obloug-lanceolate, acute or shortly 

 acuminate : the base broad, rounded or sub-cordate, unequal ; upper 

 surface shining, glabrous or glabrescent, the lower glabrescent and 

 reticulate, or (var. piibescens) s\iovi\j and softly pubescent; main 

 nerves 8 to 12 pairs, spreading, curving ; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1*2 

 to 2 in. ; petiolule "I to '2 in. Male panicles as long as the leaves, 

 much branched, many-flowered, rusty-pubescent or tomentose. Floioers 

 •25 in. in diam., on pedicels longer than themselves. Calyx rusty- 

 pubescent ; its lobes unequal, triangular. Petals oblique, broadly ovate, 

 sub-glabrous, reflexed at the apex, longer than the calyx. S t aniens about 

 as long as the petals ; the anthers short, ovate, about one third as long as 

 the filaments. Disc pubescent, 4-angled. Female flower not seen. 

 Fruit sub-globular, "5 in. in diam., the pex'sistent remains of the style 

 •15 in. long ; acciLSCout calyx-wings narrowly oblong, blunt, 2'6 to 3 



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