Trevesia.] lxxi. araliace^. 883 



Penang (Wallich 4925) ; Penara Bukit. Distrih. Burma, Sumatra. 

 Native names : Kakabu ; Tapak Rimau. 



(2) T. rufo-setosa Ridl. 



A shrub with the habit of the preceding. Leaves palmate of 

 7 lobes cut down for 7 in., more or less elHptic shortly cuspidate, 

 edge undulate with up-curved thorns, glabrous except nerves and 

 centre red-hairy, covered with small raised dots ; nerves 9, 2 on the 

 lowest lobes which are dilate on the lower edge. Whole leaf 12 in. 

 long and wide, lobes 3 to 4 in. wide; petioles stout, 2 ft. long, 

 densely covered with red-brown flat acuminate setae. Inflorescence 

 entirely covered with similar setae, 8 in. long, flexous. Flowers 

 unisexual -25 in. across. Bracts linear acuminate caudate, -5 in. 

 long. Calyx obconic setose, limb very short and obscure. Corolla 

 spreading, star-like, lobes 5, triangular coriaceous, hairy beneath. 

 Stamens 5. Style in female flowers cylindric; ovary 5-celled. 

 Stigmas bilobed. Hah. Hill forests, Selangor, Semangkok Pass, 

 2500 ft. altitude (Ridley). 



4. BRASSAIA, Endl. 



Small trees about 20 ft. tall. Leaves digitate, long-petioled, 

 coriaceous. Panicles spike-like tall with short branches bearing 

 globose heads of sessile flowers, each surrounded by a whorl of 

 4 bracts as long or longer than the calyx. Calyx obconic, limb 

 very short entire. Petals usually 10 to 12, thick valvate connate. 

 Stamens as many ; anthers ovate or oblong. Ovary usually 10- to 

 i2-locular; styles connate in a short cone. Fruit sub-globose, 

 pyrenes compressed. Species 4, Malaya, Australia. 



Harms reduces this genus to a section of Schefflera, including in it 

 S. cephalotes. From this latter the genus is separated by the larger number 

 of petals and stamens and the whorl of bracts round the flower. The beauti- 

 ful B. actinophylla of Australia is often cultivated in Singapore Gardens. 



(i) B. singaporensis Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 75, 

 p. 38. 



Leaves digitate ; petioles over 6 in. long, base widely dilate ; 

 leaflets 15, stiffly coriaceous oblong-ovate, blunt rounded at both 

 ends, 3 to 4 in. long, 175 to 2-5 in. wide; petiolules 1-5 in. long. 

 Panicles 18 in. long, stout ; branches -5 in. long, thick ; heads about 

 •5 in. through of about 10 sessile flowers. Bracts ovate acuminate, 

 longer than calyx-tube. Calyx very short, margin undulate. 

 Corolla calyptrate rounded; petals connate 5, coriaceous. Stamens 

 9 to 12; filaments short; anthers oblong-linear. Stigma sub- 

 sessile conic. Hah. In forests. Rare. Singapore, Bukit Timah 

 (Ridley). 



Mr. Robinson sent from Gunong Mengkuang Lebah in Selangor 

 a specimen of another Brassaia, but unfortunately too incomplete 

 to be properly described. The petiole of the only leaf is 5 in. long, 



