56 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Pe^iinsula. 



crowned by the long confuent column of styles, glabrous, 5-celled, -15 

 in. in diam. 



Perak; on Gunong Brumber Pahang, at an elevation of about 7000 



feet, Wray 1585. 



A very distinct species, at once distingnishable by its racemose panicles, and 

 leaflets glaucous on the lower surface and with serrate edges. 



19. Heptapleurdm biternatum, Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. 

 II, 735. A shrub several feet high ; the young shoots and the under 

 surfaces of the leaves deciduously stellate-pubescent. Leaves digitately 

 decompound or twice pinnate, with ternate leaflets at each node of the 

 rachis; leaflets coriaceous, narrowly-oblong, acuminate, entire, the 

 base slightly narrowed and rounded ; length 2-3*5 in., breadth •5--75 in., 

 petiolules *! in. long or less, tliat of the terminal leaflet '4 in. ; both 

 surfaces minutely reticulate and shining, the upper glabrous, the lower 

 with deciduous stellate pubescence. Panicle 8 in. long, but only about 

 1-5 in. across ; the branches little-divided, stellate-hairy ; bracts decidu- 

 ous, pedicels "2 in. long. 



Malacca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 684 , 

 Known only by Maingay's fragmentary specimens. 



20. Heptapleurum heterophyllum. Seem. Rev. Hed. 40. A bush 

 or small tree 8-12 feet high. Lmver leaves large, ternately decompound, 

 24 in. across ; common petiole ]2-24 in. long ; the upper leaves smaller 

 and only twice digitate ; the leaflets in all 3 to 5 on each petiolule, thinly 

 coriaceous, variable in shape, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic or broadly 

 ovate, shortly acuminate, narrowed or rounded at the base ; the edges 

 entire, rarely with 1 or 2 teeth near the apex ; both surfaces minutely 

 reticulate and glabrous, the lower minutely dotted; length 2'5-7 or 

 even 9 in., breadth l-2'25 in. ; petiolules of the lower leaflets •1-25 in., 

 that of the terminal twice as long. Panicles with deciduous pale stellate 

 pubescence, solitary or several togethei-, 10-15 in. long, and only 1-5-2 

 in. across ; the branches horizontal, slender, each ending in an umbel 

 of flowers on slender pedicels, the flowers bearing fertile pistils smaller 

 than those with fertile stamens. Fruit narrowly oblong, boldly 5.ribbed, 

 glabrous, 5-celled, nearly -25 in. long, claret-coloured when ripe. 

 Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 73J. EederaheterophylJa, Wall. 

 Cat. 4919 ; G. Don. Gen. Syst. Ill, 394. Paratropia hetei-ophylla, Presl 

 Epimel. Bot. 250 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. T, 761. 



Penang ; Wallich, Curtis 241, 2301 and possibly 1950. Perak ; 

 Scortechini 145, 664 ; King's Collector 718, 2688, 8640, 8769. 



21. Heptapleurum Curttsii, new species. A large shrub. Lower 

 leaves bipinnate, the upper trifoliolate ; common petioles of both about 

 8 in. long ■ leaflets thinly coriaceous, oblong- elliptic, sometimes slightly 



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