Tarakiogenos.] xvii. flacourtiace^. 163 



T. Scortechinii. Scales of petals hairy, half as long as petals. 

 Stamens 32, hairy. Female flowers, sepals 3. Petals 6. Stamens 17. 

 Ovary ovoid, glabrous i-celled, with 4 many-ovuled parietal 

 placentas. Stigmas 4 radiating. Fruit globular smooth 2-5 in. 

 through; pericarp green thick, inner part woody. Seeds 75 in. 

 long. Hab. Forest 300 to 2000 ft. altitude (in Sumatra). Perak, 

 Goping (Kunstler). Disirib. Sumatra. 



var. tomentosa. T. tomentosa King, I.e. 123. Leaves hairy 

 beneath. Hab. Perak, Batang Padang (Kunstler). 



6. PANGIUM, Reinwdt. 



A lofty tree about 50 ft. tall. Leaves entire or 3-lobed, ovate- 

 cordate, acuminate. Flowers in axillary racemes, unisexual. 

 Sepals 2 or 3 concave. Petals 5 or 6 with large scales at the base. 

 Male flowers, stamens 20 to 25 ; filaments broad flat ; anthers 

 ovate. Pistihode o. Females, ovary ovoid, i-celled, 2 parietal 

 placentas many-ovuled. Staminodes 5 or 6. Stigma sessile 2- to 

 4-lobed. Fruit large, oblong-ovoid; pericarp woody wrinkled. 

 Seeds many large ovoid. Albumen large oily. One species only. 



(i) P. edule Reimvdt. PI. Soc. Ratisbon, ii. 13 ; Benn. PI. Jav. 

 Ray. 205, t. 43 ; Blume Rumphia, iv. 20, t. 178. 



Leaves reddish buff pubescent beneath, 6 to 8 in. long, 

 4 to 5 in. wide ; petioles 2 to 4 in. long. Male flowers in racemes 

 4 in. long, few-flowered. Bracts linear i in. long. Flowers i"5 in. 

 across, greenish white. Female flowers solitary on a 3-in. peduncle. 

 Fruit from 7 to 12 in. long, 3*75 in. through or more, brown. Seeds 

 2 in. long, roughly triangular in an oily pulp. Hab. By river- 

 banks and in villages. Selangor, road to Bukit Kutu ; Batu 

 Caves. Pahang, banks of Pahang River. Perak, Temengoh ; Ulu 

 Bubong (Kunstler). Kelantan. Disirib. Malay Islands. Native 

 name : Kepayung or Payung. Seeds also known as K'luak. 

 Use : The seeds boiled, cut up and macerated in water are eaten, 

 the oil extracted used in cookery. Fresh seeds and oil contain a 

 poisonous glucoside breaking down and producing prussic acid, 

 used in dart poison by Sakais, and the bark is used as a piscicide 

 (Gimlette, Malay Poisons 76). The oil is also used for attracting 

 fish. 



7. SCAPHOCALYX, Ridley. 



Small trees. Leaves alternate 3-nerved, thin, coriaceous. 

 Flowers unisexual, fascicled from pubescent extra-axillary tubercles 

 on the branches, pedicelled. Calyx spathaceous covering the rest 

 of the flower and sphtting on one side or at the top with 4 lobes. 

 Petals narrow, as long as calyx or longer, 5. Stamens 6; filaments 

 short; anthers hnear or lanceolate longer. Pistillode 0. Female 



