46 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



puberulous, shorter than or as long as the leaves. Petals pubescent. 

 Fruit narrowly ellipsoid, pointed at each end, glabrous, the pericarp 

 thin, length 1"35 in., diam '6 in., damson- colored when ripe. Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bafc. Suppl. 340 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 726i; 

 Hemsley in Hook. Ic. Plantar, t. 3549. 



Pahang; i^uZZey 2439. Selangor ; Curtis 2M0. SmGATOEE ; Bidley ; 

 Eullett, 485, 888 ; King. Pahang ; Ridley 2662. Malacca ; Griffith 

 (Kew Distrib.) 2702 ; Maingay 676. Perak ; Scortechini ; Wray ; King's 

 Collector (many numbers), a very common plant. Distrib. Sumatra, 

 Forbes 2207. 



The structure of the seed is well explained by Mr. Hemgley in his descriptioa 

 and figure in Hooker^s Icones Plantarum. 



3. Heptapliurum, Gsertn. 

 Large shrubs or trees, glabrous or tomentose, without prickles. 

 Leaves digitate, rarely compound-digitate or 1-foliolate; leaflets coriaceous ^ 

 entire or remotely toothed or lobed, never closely serrate nor ciliate, 

 those near the panicle usually entire ; stipules often connate within the 

 petiole and prominent. Umbels (rarely capitate) panicled or in com- 

 pound racemes ; bracts woolly, deciduous or persistent ; pedicels not 

 jointed under the flower ; bracteoles few or 0, or rarely densely tufted. 

 Calyx-margin toothed or truncate. Petals 5-6 or many, valvate. Stamens 

 as many as the petals. Ovary cells as many as the petals, disc small 

 or large ; styles small, separate or combined in a short conical narrow 

 cylindric column. Fruit subglobose, 5-6-angled. Seeds compressed, 

 albumen uniform. Distrib. Species 55, in the tropics of the Old World. 



Leaves simple ... ... ... ... 1. -ff. avene. 



Leaves all trifoliolate : — 



Panicle longer than the leaves, slender ; its branches 



long, spreading, laxly-flowered ... ... ... 2. H. luridum. 



Panicle shorter than the leaves; its branches short, 



densely-flowered ... ... ... ... 3. H. triste. 



Leaves all digitately 5-9-foliolate : — 



Panicle simple or 2-branched, sub-racemose, only about 

 3 in. long ; the lateral umbels subsessile, lax, few- 

 flowered ... ... ... ••• 4, H. suh-racemosum^ 



Panicle divided from the base or near it into several 

 erect narrow branches 6-12 inches long ; the lateral 

 branches very short and bearing dense heads of sub- 

 sessile flowers : — 

 Ovary 8-celled, leaves glaucous and with loose wooly 



hairs beneath ... ... ... ... 5. H. Cephalotes. 



Ovary 5-celled : — 



Both surfaces of the leaves quite glabrous ... 6. H. Scortechinii. 



Lower surf ape gf leaves tomentose ... ... 7. B. tomentosum, 



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