Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 77. 



sub-acute, externally hairy, inside glabrous but with a hairy mesial 

 line. Stamens about 18, two opposite each petal and one opposite each 

 sepal, free ; filaments slender pilose ; anthers linear reaching almost to 

 the apices of tlie petals. Disc annulaT-, wavy. Style as long as the 

 stamens, 6-grooved ; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit ellipsoid, slightly com- 

 pressed, contracted below the disc-bearing month, densely and minutely 

 tomentose, "75 to 1 in. long and 65 in. in diara. Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Fl. Bombay 109 ; Brandis For. Fl. N.-W. India 250 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. II, 741 ; Trimen Fl. Ceylon I, 285. A. decapetahcm, Lamk. 

 Diet. I, t. 174; DC. Prodr. Ill, 203; Wall. Cat. 6884; W. & A. 

 Prodr. 325 ; Wight Tc. t 194 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat T, Pt. I, 774 ; Kurz For. 

 Fl. I, 543. J. hexapetalum, Lamk. and DC. 11. c. ; Roxb. Hort. Bang. 38, 

 Fl. Ind. II, 502 ; Wall. Cat. 6883 ; W. & A. Prodr. 326 ; Wight III. t. 

 96. A. simdanum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 774 ; Kurz. I.e. A, tomen- 

 tosum, Lamk. and DC. 11. c. ; Wall. Cat. 6885. A. latifolium, Miq. in 

 PI. Hohenack. No. 719.— Rheede Hort. Mai. IV, tt. 17, 26. 



Perak : Scortechini; Kings Collector 5590. Singapore ; Bidley 

 6020.— DisTRiB. Brit. India, Malayan Archipelago, S. China, Philippines, 

 East Africa. 



Var. glandulosa, Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 742. A large 

 climber. A. glandulosa, Thw. Enuia. PI. Ceyl. 133 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. 

 11, 286. 



Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Distrib. Ceylon. 

 2. Alangium tjniloculare. King. A tree 30 to 60 feet high ; young 

 branches minutely rusty-pubescent, slender. Leaves membranous, 

 obliquely ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, the base 

 unequal, one side rounded the other acute, the edges somewhat wavy ; 

 upper surface glabrous except the tomentose midrib and pubes- 

 cent main-nerves; the lower sparsely sub-adpressed pubescent and 

 minutely glandular; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, ascending, the lower 

 on one side much branched, all slightly prominent on both surfaces ; 

 the main- veins sub-parallel ; length 3-5 to 55 in. ; breadth 1*75 to 

 2-25 in. ; petiole '25 to '3 in., villous. Cymes axillary, about one- 

 third of the length of the leaves, pedunculate ; the branches spread- 

 ing, rusty pubescent, many-flowered. Flowers about -4 in. long, with 

 subulate bracteoles and short pedicels. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, not 

 grooved, the mouth minutely toothed. Petals 5, linear ; anthers linear ; 

 filaments short, broad, woolly at the apex. Style cylindric, pubescent ; 

 stigma subglobose. Fruit ovate in outline, much tapered to the apex, 

 compressed, faintly ridged when dry, "6 in. long and '35 in. broad when 

 dry. Marlea unilocularis, Griff. Notul. IV, 679. M. GHffithii, Clarke 

 in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 742. 



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