4 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



iiafce, narrowed in the lower foui-th to the rounded or sub-cordate base ; 

 upper surface rugose and, even when adult, clothed with sparse 

 thin hairs ; when old glabrous, the midrib and nerves depressed 

 and tomentose ; under- surface rusty-tomentose ; maiu nerves 6 or 7 

 pairs, oblique, curved, prominent beneath ; length 3 to 6 in., breadth 

 1*25 to 2 in., petiolules '1 to '15 in. Panicles terminal, shorter or longer 

 than the leaves ; the branches rather short, stout. Flowers crowded, 

 '3 in. long, on pedicels much shorter than themselves. Sepals oblong- 

 ovate, tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Petals linear-oblong, glabrous. 

 Stamens 10, alternately long and short, the filaments glabi-ous. Ovary 

 oblong, tomentose, style short. Follicle obovoid-oblong, shortly apicu- 

 late, tapering to the base, red when ripe, densely rusty -tomentose, 

 1*75 to 2*25 in. long and '8 to 125 in. broad ; pericarp woody, densely 

 sericeous inside. Seed narrowly oblong, J in. long and '6 in. broad, 

 black, shining, with a basal incomplete arillus '5 in. long. Planchon in 

 Linn^a, Vol. XXIII, 429; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 51. Tricholohiis 

 ferruginejis, Blume Mas. Bot. Lugd. Bat. T. 237. Connaracea, Wall. 

 Cat. 8530. 



In all the provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. — 

 DiSTRiB. Sumatra. 



I see no character to separate Blume's genus Tricholohus from Connarus, and I 

 therefore follow Sir Joseph Hooker ia adheriug^ to Jack's name for this plant. 



3. Connarus semidecandkus, Jack in Mai. Misc. 2, VII, 39. A 

 sarmentose or often scandent shrub ; young branches deciduously 

 puberulous. Leaves 6 to 9 in. long, their rachises and the under-surfaces 

 of the leaflets with their petiolules pubescent or puberulous ; leaflets 5 

 to 7, thinly coriaceous, oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, shortly caudate- 

 acuminate, the base cuneate or rounded ; upper surface quite glabrous ; 

 the lower reticulate, the pubescence often deciduous with age ; main 

 nerves 6 or 7 pairs, prominent on the lower surface, spreading but cur- 

 ving upwards, the lower pair very oblique ; length 2*5 to 4*5 in., breadth 

 •9 to 2*5 in., petiolules "15 in Panicles axillary and terminal, longer thau 

 the leaves, much branched, densely and minutely rusty- tomentose. 

 Floiuers rather crowded, "2 in. long, on pedicels shorter than themselves. 

 Sepals oblong, obtuse, concave, pubescent outside, shorter than the 

 glabrous linear-oblong petals. Stamens 10, in two rows, one row very 

 short, the other with its filaments dilated at their bases and as long as 

 the petals. Pistil single, shorter than the stamens, the ovary hairy ; 

 the style short, stout, pubescent; stigma sub-capitate. Follicles falcate, 

 obovoid, compressed, with a short abrupt apical point, narrowed to a 

 stalk at the base, at first rusty-pubescent, afterwards glabrous, obliquely 

 striate, about -75 to "9 in. long and "o in. broad ; pericarp thin, sparsely 



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