48 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



simple, coriaceous, narrowly oblong, acute, narrowed to the base, the 

 edges slightly recurved ; both surfaces glabrous, dull when dry ; main 

 nerves about 12 pairs, faint, sub-horizontal ; length 3-5-5'25 in., breadth 

 •9-1 -2 in. ; petiole -75-1 25, thickened near the apex. Panicles single or 

 2 or 3, terminal, puberulous, half as long as the leaves, erect ; the few 

 branches rather close together, about "25 or '3 in. long, each bearing 

 3-5 pedicellate flowers ; the buds '15 in., ovoid, their pedicels '2 in. long ; 

 bracts lanceolate, deciduous. Calyx-rim narrow; petals, stamens and 

 stigmas 6. Fmit ellipsoid, as large as a pea, sulcate. Sciadophyllum 

 avene, Herb. Korthals. 



Singapore ; Bidley 5840, 6337. Distrib. Sumatra. 

 At once distinguished in the genus by its oblong simple leaves. 

 2. Heptapleukum luridum, new species. An epiphytic shrub 2-3 

 feet long ; branches with rugulose glabrous bark. Leaves trifoliolate, 

 with a common petiole 1-1-75 in. long, glabrous, fleshy when fresh, ver- 

 tically rugose when dry ; leaflets very coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-ob- 

 long, slightly oblique, tapering gradually to each end ; the edges entire, 

 much recurved when dry ; both surfaces quite glabrous, the nerves 

 and veins very indistinct even when dry ; length 2*5-4 in., breadth •5--75 

 in. ; petiolules unequal, thick, the lateral •15-'25 in. long, the terminal 

 about '4 iu. Panicle terminal, longer than the leaves ; its branches few, 

 slender, long, spreading, glabrous ; the ultimate branchlets 1-1'5 in. 

 long, bearing umbels of 3-8 broadly ovoid glabrous flowers '1 in. long ; 

 their pedicels at first only about *! in. long, but two or three times 

 as long in fruit. Calyx-tube shortly campanulate ; its mouth truncate, 

 entire. Petals completely united into a calyptra. Stamens 6, erect, 

 the filaments short. Styles united into a short conical column ; the 

 stigmas 6, small, occupying the corners of its truncate apex. 

 Perak ; Scortechini 1191 ; King's Collector 8304. 



A very distinct small species easily recognised by its narrow very acuminate 

 avenous leaflets borne on fleshy petioles, and by its slender spreading long-branched 

 few-flowered panicles. 



3. Heptapleurum triste, new species. A tree ; young branches as 

 thick as a swan's-quill, glabrous, pale when dry. Leaves 3-foliolate, 

 the common petiole 1*5-2 in. long; leaflets thickly coriaceous, glabrous, 

 broadly elliptic, blunt or shortly apiculate, the base rounded ; the edges 

 entire, boldly recurved when dry ; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, close to- 

 gether, indistinct on both surfaces ; length 2*25-3'25 in., breadth 1*5-2 

 in. ; petiolules unequal, the lateral pair '5 in. long, the middle one '8 in. 

 Panicle terminal, shorter than the leaves, glabrous, divided from the 

 base into 2 or 3 spreading branches, ebracteate ; the branchlets about 

 •5 in. long (longer in fruit), each ending in an umbel of 10-20 ovate 

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