498 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



or spathiform staminodes : filaments very short, tliickened towards tte 

 base ; anthers broadly ovate, dorsifixed. Ovary ovoid-globose, its base 

 immersed in the disc, unilocular, with a single pendulous ovule. Style 

 terminal, very short, thick ; the stigma broad, fleshy, with 3 broad 

 spreading blunt lobes. Fruit obliquely oblong-ovoid, attenuate towards 

 the apex ; the pericarp leathery, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed with mem- 

 branous testa, exalbumiiious, the cotyledons flat, the radicle curved. — 

 DiSTRiB. three species, all Malayan. 



Leaflets tomentose on the lower surface ... 1. M. velutina. 



Leaflets glabrescent and minutely scurfy (wlien 



dry) on the lower surface, the axils of the main 



nerves with tufts of white hair ... ... 2. 3/. Curtisii. 



1. MiCROSTEMON VELDTiNA, Engler in DC. Men, Phan. IV, 294. 

 A tall tree : young branches, rachises and under surfaces and petioles 

 and rachises of leaves and the inflorescence softly pubescent-tomcntose, 

 rusty-cinereous. Leaves 6 to 10 in. long, the petiole slender ; leaflets 7 to 

 11, thinly membranous, oblong-lanceolate, entire, shortly and bluntly 

 acuminate; the base slightly narrowed, cuneate or rounded; upper 

 surface glabrous except the pubescent midrib ; main nerves 12 to 16 

 pairs, spreading, rather obscure ; length 2 to 4 in., breadth "8 to 1"5 in ; 

 petiolule '16 in., the terminal one longer. Panicles pedunculate, much 

 branched towards the apex, the branches very slender. Flowers numer- 

 ous, less than '1 in. in diam., sessile. Calyx glabrous, the lobes elliptic. 

 Petals obovate, glabrescent on the outer surface, minutely tomentose on 

 the inner. Fruit narrowly oblong, compressed, with a rusty scurfy 

 leathery pericarp, 1-celled, 1-seeded (young) "75 in. long and '35 or "4 

 in. broad. Pentaspadon ? velutinus, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 28. 



Malacca: Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. ), No. 464. Perak: 

 Scortechini, No. 1924 ; King's Collector, No. 7417. Pahang : Ridley, 

 No. 2560. 



2. MiCROSTEMON CoRTlsil, King. A rcedium sized tree (Curtis) ; 

 young branches slender, deciduously puberulous, their hark pale and 

 leiiticellate when dry. Leaves 5 to 7 in. long, the petiole and rachis 

 slender and puberulous ; leaflets veiy dark when dry, about 7, mem- 

 branous, naiTOwly oblong- lanceolate, acuminate, entire, the base 

 rounded and slightly oblique, with scattered short bairs, the midrib and 

 nerves pubescent, not reticulate ; lower surf.ace glabrescent, minutely 

 scurfy when dry, the midrib and nerves puberulous ; main nerves 13 

 to 17 pairs, ascending, curved, with conspicuous tufts of white hair at 

 their junction with the midrib : length 1"75 to 3 in., breadth "75 to 

 •9 in. ; petiolules "1 in., the terminal one '2 in. Panicles near the 

 end of the bi*anches, axillary, slendei-, slightly longer than the leaves, 



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