278 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Ptninsnla. 



and minutely lenticellute. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-elliptic or ovate- 

 lanceolate, shortly and obtnselj' acuminate, the base rounded or cuneate; 

 upper surface glabrous and shining except the pubescent midrib, the 

 lower pale brown when dry, reticulate and covered, except the 10 or 12 

 pairs of conspicuous slightly ascending glabrous main nerves, -with a 

 thin layer of cobwebby hair ; length 1-5-3 in., breadth ■75-1-25 in. ; petiole 

 •25 in., pubescent. Panicles axillary, longer than the leaves, with a few 

 distant short few-flowered branches, tawny-tomentose. Flowers nearly 

 •25 in. long, on short pedicels, solitary or in cymes of three. Calyx-tuhe 

 densely puberalous outside, internally with aline of subulate processes at 

 the throat and a broad belt of deflexed silky hair, the ovate lobes 

 shorter than the tube. Petals thin, obovate, clawed, longer than the 

 calyx-lobes, sparsely pubescent. Stamens about 8, half of tlieni anan- 

 therous, the filaments villous. Pistil 1, the ovary villous. Fruit oblong, 

 blunt, slightly compressed, with many pale scurfy patches, slightly 

 more than 1 in. long and 65 in. broad. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Yol. I, Pt. 

 1, 354; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 311 (excl. syn. P. sumatranum, Benth. 

 and Kurz's Petrocarpa sumatrana) ; Jack Mai. Misc. II, VII, 67. Fl^o- 

 carpus? punctatus, Wall. Cat. 2676. 



Malacca; Maingay 621, 621/2. PenatvCx ; Citrtis 269, 2J63. Perak; 

 King's Collector 5227. Singapoke ; Ridley 398. 



2. Parinarium pqlynedrum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 306. A 

 tree 60 to 100 feet high ; young branches slender, pale brown, profusely 

 lenticellate, puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong or ovate-oblong, 

 rather bluntly acuminate ; the base rounded, eglandular ; upper sur- 

 face glabrous, shining ; the lower pale, areolate, puberulous ; main 

 nerves 15 to 18 pairs, spreading, prominent beneath ; length 3 to 5 in., 

 breadth 1*35 to 2 in. Panicles axillary and solitary, or terminal and 

 in clusters of 2-4, rather shorter than the leaves when in flower, 

 longer in fruit, hoary- tomentose ; the branches short, rather crowded, the 

 ultimate branchlets cymosely 3-flowered ; bract shorter than the calyx- 

 tube, oblong, obliquely acute, tomentose. Flowers '25 in. long, on very 

 short pedicels. Calyx infundibuliform, tomentose outside, deflexed- 

 villons inside ; the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent on the inner 

 face. Petals as long as the calyx-lobes, oblong, slightly dilated up- 

 wards, obtuse, not clawed at the base, glabrous. Stamens 10, shorter 

 than the f>etals, all bearing anthers. Ovary sericeous. Style glabrous. 

 Fruit oblong, compressed, obtuse, slightly tapered to the base, covered 

 with a dense layer of tawny scurf, about 2 in. long Avhen ripe and 12 

 in. across, 2-celled ; pericarp crustaceous, very hard, "25 in. thick. 



Malacca; Griffith, Maingay 622. Perak ; King's Collector 4624, 

 6087. DibTiUB. Sumatra. 



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