Tabula 2S1K 



TRISTIROP3IS CAJSTARIOIDES, Boerl 

 Sapixdackae. Tribus Melicocckae. 



T. canarioides, IherL ex T 



tt. 18G et 187; a 2\ ac 



rx Valeton in Ic. Bogor, vol. ii. (lOOd), p. 285. 



--. ^« ^^, ^ «. * . ..ciUanfjulay Radl., pinnis paucioribus^ foliulis 



paucioribus et fructu globoso baud auguloso recedit. 



Arbor excelsa, raraulis foliisque glabris. /o/m bipinnata, circiter 10 

 cm. longa et lata ; pinnis utrinque 1-3, 8-12-foliolatis ; foliola alterna, 

 breviter petiolulata, coriacea, ovato-oblonga, 9-18 cm. longa^ plus 

 minusve obliqua, obtusi, supra nitida. Paniculae amplae, folia 

 subaequantes, e foliorum superiorum axillis erectae, fructiferao 

 pendulae. Flares numerosissimi, regulares, hermapbroditi vel poly- 

 gami, 8-10 mm, diametro. Sepala 5, orbicularia, extus puberula, 

 ciliata. Petala 5, quam sepala fere dimidio minora, rotundata, sericea, 

 basi biauriculata, auriculis inflexis. Stamina 7-11, saepius 10, quam 

 petala breviora, filanientis pubescentibus disci margine internoinserti.^, 

 antheris bilocellatis apiculatis rimis longitudinalibus debiscentibus. 

 Discus latus, annularis. Orarium pubescens, 4-Ioculare, loculis 

 uniovulatis, ovulis erectis; stylus brevis, stigmatislobisparvis. Frncfus 

 drupaceus, pedunculatus, globosus, 2*5-3 cm. diametro, cerasifurmis, 

 laovis vel vix obsolete trisulcus (Yaleton quoad fructum). 



New Guinea : Without locality, Teysmann^ fide Yaleton. 



Kew possesses only a flowering specimen of this species, and thai is 

 from a tree cultivated in the Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens. Valeton s 

 figures and description, cited above, appear to have been made from 

 fresh specimens, thougli he does not actually say so. 



Our drawings were made and printed last year, before the flowers of 

 the genus we-ve known ; but Yaleton has to a certain extent fores^aHed 

 us in publication. It was at first supposed that T, Ridleyiy Henisl. 

 (tabula nostra 2812), was the same as 1\ cawrtrioif/es, Boerl., and it may 

 eventually be proved that this is so, but for the present the best course 

 seems to keep the two apart, 



Tristiropsis was founded by Radlkofer (Engler and Prantl, KatiirJ, 

 Pflaiizeiif, iii. 5, p. 325) on fruiting specimens of two species— namely, 

 T^ ohtitsangnla^ from the Marianne Islands, which Kew does not 

 possess, and 1\ acntangula^ from the Solomon Islands. The latter is at 

 Kew, and was collected by Mr. II. B. Guppy on the summit of Oima 

 Island. T, 8id)anyula^ Iv. Sebum. (Lauterl)ach, Xnchtrage znr FL der 

 Deictsch, Sclmtzgejj, der SUdsee, p. 310), from German New Guinea, i^ 

 apparently the same as 7\ acntangula^ Radlk. — W. BoxTiXG Hemslkv. 



Iig. 1, a flnwer; 2, a petal; 3, tlie same, with the aurioles (lattenevl out; 4, back 

 and front views of a stamen ; 6, pistil. prr>b;iMy impcrfrot; 6, Uingitiulinal ge.-lion of 

 ov.iry; 7 and 3, cross scL^tiuus of ovaries. A I e'dargeih 



