Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 363 



few-flowered. Follicles several-seeded. DC. Prod, I, 68 ; Eoxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ii, 646; H. f. et Th. Fl. lud. i, 63; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. lud. I, 32; 

 JMiq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. ii, 8. T. hicida, Wall. Cat. 



Straits Settlements, at low elevations. Distrib. Moluccas and New 

 Caledonia. 



3. T. MACROPHTLLA, Wall. Cat. 6628. Young branches pubescent. 

 Leaves broadly elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 5 to 7 in. long, margin sub-sin- 

 uate, scabrid on both surfaces. Panicle terminal, longer than the leaves, 

 many-flowci-ed. Sepals rotund, not ribhed. Follicles l-seeded. Hook, 

 fil. et Th. Fl. Ind. I, 63; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 32; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. Vol. 1. pt ii, 8. 



Straits {Settlements, in tropical forests. Distrib. Sumatra. 



4. T. GRANDis, King. n. S|). A large tree. Young branches and 

 inflorescence shortly velvety-tomentose. Leaves large, coriaceous, broad- 

 ly elliptic, rarely slightly ohovate, the apex truncate and minutely 

 apiculate ; the edges obscurely crenate or undulate toward the apex, 

 entire below, recurved when dry ; the base rounded or slightly narrowed ; 

 upper surface scabrous, lower minutely toraentose ; nerves stout, 14 

 pairs, sti-aight, erecto-patent ; length of blade 8 to 10 in., width 55; 

 petiole about 5 in., stout. Lifloresceuce in little-branched, lateral or ter- 

 minal, panicles a foot or more lung. Floivers shortly pedunculate. 

 Sepals 5, broadly ovate, sub-acute, concave, ribbed and tomentose exter- 

 nally, '5 in. long. Petals about as long as the sepals but narrower, 

 glabrous. Anthers truncate, narrowed to the long slender filaments. 

 Follicles with a slender curved beak. 



Perak. Scortechini, No. 906. 



Said by Father Scortechini to be a very large tree. 



3. AcROTREMA, Jack. 



Perennial stemless herbs with woody rhizomes. Leaves large, par 

 rallel-nerved, with slieathing deciduous stipules. Scape short, axillary 

 bracteolate. Flowers large, yellow. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Stamens nu 

 merous, in 3 bundles which alternate with tlie carpels ; filaments filiform 

 anthei's erect, with longitudinal porous dehiscence. Carpels 3, slightly co 

 hering ; styles subulate, recurved, ovules 2 or more. Fruit of 3 irregu 

 larly dehiscing fcllicles. Seed with a membranous aril ; tlie testa crus 

 taceou.s, pitted. — Distrib. Ten species, of which 8 are endemic in Ceylon 

 1 Peninsular-Indian, and 1 Indo-Malayan. 



A. COSTATUM, Jack in Mai. Misc. ex Hook. Misc. ii, 82. Whole 

 plant covered with stiff rufous or golden hairs, especially when young. 

 Leaves obovate, the margins dentate-ciliate ; the base narrowed, sagittate ; 

 upper surface strigose, often blotched with white, petiole short. Racemes 



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