610 Materials for a flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



the Malayan species by its large leaves whicli are very pale glaucescent 

 beneatli : collected hitherto only by Mr. C. Curtis, of the Forest Depart- 

 ment, Penang. 



3. Semecarpus KuRzii, Engl, in DO. Mon. Phan. IV, 489. A 

 small tree : young branches stout, rough and lenticellate, covered with, 

 deciduous dense minute rusty tomentam. Leaves coriaceous, oblanceo- 

 late-oblong, suddenly and very shortly acuminate, gradually narrowed in 

 the lower three-fourths to the short stout dilated petiole, the edges sub- 

 nndulate : both surfaces minutely reticulate ; the upper glabrous, shining, 

 olivaceous when dry ; the lower pale brown when dry and not shining, 

 glaucescent, spai'sely covered with short stiff deciduous hairs; main 

 nerves 20 to 26 pairs, spreading, slightly ascending, interarcliing near 

 the edge, prominent on the lower surface, rather faint on the upper ; 

 length 12 to 24 in., breadth 3 to 4-25 in. ; petiole stout, dilated, chan- 

 nelled, "6 to 1 in. long. Pantc/e terminal, longer than the leaves, the 

 main rachis stout ; the branches slender, ascending, lax, the ultimate 

 branchlets spicate, everywhere tomeutose. Flowers sessile, *1 in. in 

 diam. Calyx cupular, thick, with 5 shallow spreading orbicular teeth, 

 sub-ciliate at the edges, otherwise glabrous. Petals 5, much longer than 

 the calyx, broadly elliptic, sub-acute, glabrous externally, puberulous 

 internally. Stamens 6, shorter than the petals ; the filaments flattened, 

 puberulous. Disc convex, glabrous ; rudimentary ovary pilose. Drupe 

 obliquely ovoid, sub-compressed, keeled, glabrous, 1 in. long, and about 

 as much across the swollen peduncle, deciduously pubescent, obconic, 

 a,bout '5 in. long. S. heterophyJlus, Kurz (not of Blume) in Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. Vol. XLV, Pt 2, (1876) p. 126 ; For. Flora Burma, 1, 312. 



Nicobar Islands ; Jelinek, No. 210 ; Kurz ; King's Collector. Bati 

 Malv, Dr. Prain. 



Distinguished by its long lax tomentose panicle and glabrous sessile 

 flowers. Dr. Prain's specimens from the little-known island of Bati 

 Malv are in ripe fruit and have no flowers, but I have no hesitation 

 in referring them to this species. 



4. Semecarpds i/UCENs, King n. sp. A tree 40 to 70 feet high ; 

 young branches rather slender, with pale glabrous bark. Leaves 

 coriaceous, broadly elliptic ; rarely sub-ovate-elliptic, the apex obtuse 

 and rounded or very shortly and abruptly acuminate ; the edges with 

 a shining pale margin, sub-undulate, the base cuneate and slightly 

 oblique ; upper surface glabrous and shining, greenish when dry, reticu- 

 late ; lower surface pale brown when dry, not shining, conspicuously 

 reticulate, the nerves and reticulations broad and shining, sparsely 

 shortly and deciduously puberulous ; main nerves 10 to 16 pairs, stout, 

 shining, broad and conspicuous on the lower surface, thin and only 

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