.494 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



base ; leaflets 5 to 7 pairs, subsessile, thickly coriaceotis, oblong, aento 

 or acuminate, the base rounded; upper surface glabrous except the 

 densely pubescent midrib ; the lower shortly rusty-pubescent, reticu- 

 late ; main nerves 12 to 16 pairs, irregular, spreading and ascending, 

 curved, prominent on the lower surface when dry ; length 4*5 to 5*5 

 in., breadth about 1-5 in. ; petiolules very short (only "05 to \ in.), 

 or absent. Panicle rather shorter than the leaves, divided to the base 

 into numerous fascicled branches, densely and softly tomentose. 

 Floivers '5 in. in diam., pedicelled. Ovary conical, pilose ; styles 3 ? 

 Fruit bioadly ovoid, apiculate, "5 in. long, densely tomentose, the peri- 

 carp cartilaginous ; acci^escent-calyx-wings thinly coriaceous, pale, 

 striate, adpressed-puberulous or almost glabrous, narrowly oblong, 

 sub-acute, 4-5 to 5 in. long and about 5 in. broad. Engler in DC. Mon. 

 Phan. IV, 310. 



Malacca : Maingay, No. 487. 



A very imperfectly known species collected hitherto only by Main- 

 gay, and as much in want of investigation as the last. 



9, Campnosperma, Thwaites. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, very coriaceous, simple, quite entire. 

 Racemes axillary, simple or sparingly branched. Flowers sessile, minute, 

 hermaphrodite. Calyx 3-5-partite ; segments erect, persistent, imbricate. 

 Petals 3-6, suborbicular, erect, imbricate. Disc urceolar. Stamens 6-10, 

 inserted at the base of the disc. Ovary free, sessile, ovoid^ 1-eelled ; 

 style very short, stigma discoid or capitate ; ovule 1, pendulous from 

 the top of the cell. Drupe ovoid, fleshy ; stone hard, almost 2-celled by 

 a vertical plate from the top of the horse-shoe-shaped cell. Seed pendu- 

 lous, curved round the imperfept septum : cotyledons curved, rather flat ; 

 radicle short superior. — Distrib. mostly Tropical Asiatic. 



Male flowers sessile ... ... ... 1. C. Griffithii, 



Male flowers pedicelled. 



Female flowers in short racemes ; the males 



in long panicles ; fruit *6 in. in diam. ... 2. C. auriculata. 



Male and female flowers in sub-equal panicles ; 



fruit '2 to '25 in. long ... ... 3. C Wallichii. 



1. Campnosperma Griffithii, Marchand Rev. Anacard. 174. A 

 tree 60 to 80 feet high ; young branches very stout, rough and with 

 sparse minute tomentum. Leaves very coriaceous, obovate-oblong or 

 elliptic, the apex very broad, rounded or emarginate, the edges slightly 

 recurved when dry; the base much cuneate, slightly decurrent on the 

 broad stout channelled petiole ; upper surface quite glabrous, the midrib 

 depressed ; lower surface minutely stellate-pubescent, the midrib very 

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