MoferiaJs for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. fill 



slightly prominent on the upper, Bpreading, interarcbing near the edge : 

 length 4 to 7-6 in., breudth 2 to 325 in. ; petiole '75 to 1*5 or even 2 

 in., thickened near the base. Panicles usually terminal, pedunculate, 

 longer than the leaves, puberulous ; the branches slender, long, lax, 

 sub-erect; the branchlets short and bearing the flowers in lather 

 crowded ultimate fascicles. Flowers '15 in. in diam., on pedicels shorter 

 than themselves. Male flowers calyx cupular, flat, with 5 ovate acute 

 spreading teeth, glabrous ; petals 5, ovate-lanceolate, acute, several 

 times longer than the calyx, glabrous : stamens 5, shorter tlian the 

 petals ; the cells of the anthers diver^^^ent, the filaments flattened ; disc 

 fleshy, flat, with a small concave pit, puberulous. Female floweru on 

 Smaller fewer-flowered panicles ; the flowers themselves larger than 

 the males ; calyx as in the male ; petals broader and more fleshy. 

 Stamens 5, short and rudimentary, each rising from one of the ano-les 

 of the cupular fleshy 5-angled glabrous disc. Ovary tomentose, conical, 

 slightly oblique, its base sui rounded by the disc. Styles 3, horizontal 

 or depressed, radiating. Drupe (young) obliquely ovoid, compressed, 

 the enlarged peduncle about a third of its length, rusty-puberulous. 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 5256, 5377^ 5444, 5470, 6895. 



5. Semecarpus Prainii, King n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet high; 

 young branches rather stout, deciduously puberulous. Leaves oblong- 

 oblanceolate to obovate oblong, shortly and abruptly acuminate, the 

 edges slightly undulate, gradually narrowed from the upper third 

 to the rather short petiole ; both surfaces glabrous and minutely 

 though distinctly reticulate, the upper pale-greenish when dry, the lower 

 pale brown ; main nerves 18 to 24 pairs, prominent on the lower sur- 

 face, slightly so on the upper, the lower pairs sub- horizontal, the upper 

 spreading and curving upwards ; length 5 to 10 in., breadth 1*5 to 3*25 

 in ; petiole "5 to '8 ia. Panicles terminal, pedunculate, glabrous below, 

 pubescent towards the extremities, longer than the leaves ; the branches 

 numerous, slender, with many branchlets, the ultimate branchlets 

 cymulose. Flowers rather crowded, almost sessile, globular in bud, 

 about "1 in. in diam. when expanded. Calyx cupular, puberulous, rather 

 coriaceous, with 5 broadly-ovate obtuse ciliate spreading segments. 

 Petals 5, imbricate, longer than the calyx, glabrous, broadly ovate, acute. 

 Stamens 5, shorter than the petals. Disc fleshy, convex, dark-coloured, 

 with a tuft of hairs in the middle ; ovary in the male flower absent. 

 Drupe obliquely obovoid, compressed, glabrous, about "5 in. long and '65 

 in. broad ; the enlai'ged peduncle obcouic, '35 in, long, glabrous. 8. 

 heterophyllus, Hook. fil. (not of Blume) Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. IT, 35. 



Barren and Litlle Cocos Islands ; Praiii. Andamans : Prain, King's 

 Collectors. Perak : King's Collector, No. 7442 Andamans : Heifer, 

 No. 1131. 



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