. Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. S13 



Drtmtcarpus RACEMOsas, Hook. fil. in Bentli. and Hook. fil. Gen. 

 ■Plantar. I, 424. A large tree : young branches ratlier slender, some- 

 what glaucouf?, the bark afterwards pale and striate. Leaves coriaceous,, 

 oblanceolate or oblonfj-lancenlate, shortly acuminate, the edges con- 

 spicuously undulate, the base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, shining, 

 the lower dull often glaucous or glaucescent, the reticulations distinct 

 in both ; main nerves 14 to 18 pairs, spreading, often irregular, pro- 

 minent beneath : length 4 to 6 in., breadth 12 to 2"25 in. ; petiole 

 •35 to "5 in., cliannelled. Floivers in racemes or panicles, terminal or in 

 the uppermost axils, shorter than the leaves, puberulous, slender, the 

 panicles branched from the base ; male flowers sessile, fascicnlate, the 

 females shortly pedicelled, both about "1 in. in diam. Anthers shoi'tly 

 ovate, filaments thick. Disc cren'^te, fleshy. Drupe broader than long, 

 red when ripe, 1 in. or more broad, and about '75 in. long. Hook, fil ^ 

 Fl. Br. Ind. I, 36 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma I, 314 ; Engler in DC.' 

 Mon. Phan, IV, 472. Holigarna racemosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 82 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 1006. 



The Andaman Islands. — Distrib. Burma, the Assam Range, and 

 the lower slopes of the Eastern Himalaya. 



17. Dracontomelum, Blume. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, unequally-pinnate ; lenfiets opposite or alter- 

 nate, quite entire. Panicles axillary and sub-terminal. Flowers herm- 

 aphrodite. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, sub-erect, sub-valvate. Disc 

 large, cup-shaped, crenulate. Stamens 10, inserted at the base of the disc. 

 Ovary sessile, 6-celled ; styles 6, thick, ei'ect, connate by their obtuse 

 stigmatiferous tips ; ovules solitary and pendulous in the cells. Drupe 

 globose, fleshy, tubercled above the middle by the style-bases ; stone 

 hard, depressed, 2-5-celled ; cells diverging, opening by canals through 

 the top of the stone. Seeds compressed, pendulous, testa membranous ; 

 cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle short, superior, centrifugal. — Dis trib. 

 6 species ; natives of tropical Asia and the Pacific. 



Dracontomelum mangiferdm, Blume Mus. Bot. Lngd. Bat. I, 231 

 fig. 42. A tree 80 to 100 feet high; young branches stout, densely 

 covered with minute deciduous tavrny-tomentum. Leaves 12 to 20 in. 

 long, their rachises minutely puberulous or glabrous, the petiole slender 

 and but little thickened at the base ; leaflets 5 to 8 pairs, alternate 

 rarely sub-opposite, thinly coriaceous, the upper ones elliptic-oblong, the 

 lower ovate-oblong and shorter, all shortly and abruptly acuminate 

 unequal-sided with rounded oblique bases : both surfaces minutely 

 reticulate when dry, the upper quite glabrous, the lower also glabrous 

 but the midrib often puberulous and with small tufts of h^ir in the nerve 



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