Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 63 



in., petiolulcs •l-'2 in. Simple leaves as long as 85 in. and about 4 in. 

 broad ; petiole l-:2 inches. Inflorescence a panicle of umbels with 

 puberulous peduncles 1 in. or more long. Calyx-tube sub-globular, 

 puberulous. Petals ovate-lanceolate, spreading, '15 in. long. Fruit (un- 

 ripe) more than '5 in. long, including the conical disc and persistent 

 style. 



Malacca ; Maingay ( Kew Distrib. ) 683. 



This plant haa not been collected since Maingay's time, and it is known only 

 from his fragmentary specimens. 



11. TUPIDANTHUS, H. f. & T. 



A large glabrous shrub, at first erect but afterwards a lofty 

 climber. Leaves digitate ; leaflets glabrous, leathery, ent.ire ; stipules 

 connate within the petiole. Inflorescence a compound umbel or small 

 panicle ; pedicels thick, not jointed under the flowers. Calyx-margin 

 obsolete. Petals closely connate, falling off in a cap. Stame^is very many, 

 in two or several series. Ovarian cells and stigmas very numerous; 

 the latter sessile, radiating, crowded but not connate. Fruit globose, 

 depressed, succulent. 



TuPiDANTHUS CALTPTRATUS, Hook. fil. and Thoms. in Bot. Mag. t. 

 4908. Leaflets 7-9, oblong or oblong-obovate, acute or blunt, 4-7 in. 

 long, and l-75-3'5 in. broad, the petiolules 1-2 in. ; the common 

 petiole 6-15 in. Inflorescence umbellate, 3-4-branched; the branches 

 stout, short and with large coriaceous bracts at their bases ; the 

 ultimate umbels with 3-7 pedicellate flowers nearly 1 in. across ; calyx- 

 tube glabrous, thickly coriaceous. Stamens 50-70, crowded. Fruit 

 sub-globose, succulent, 1'25-1'5 in. in diam. when ripe. Seem. Rev. 

 Hed. 6 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor.Br. Ind. II, 740. 



Perak ; on Gunong Ulu Sungei, elevat. 4500 feet ; Wray 1594. 

 Distrib. Burma; Khasia Hills and probably Java. 



Mr. Wray's specimens were collected at an elevation much higher than this 

 species ever ascends to in British India. They have smaller leaves with blunt 

 leaflets, but are otherwise indistinguishable from the British Indian plant. 



407 



