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Tabulae 2824 et 2825. 



TEIOMMA MALACCENSIS, 7/^oA\/. ? 



BURSERACEAE. 



Triomma malacceasis, Ilook. / in Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xxiii. 



p. 171. Species unica. 



Ay'hor rlloica (?), circa 55 ni. alta, cortice griseo squamatim solute ; 

 novelli minute puberuli. Folia alterna, exstipulata, pinnata, 3-4-jugaj 

 glabra ; rhacliis cum petiole basi incrassato 15-20 cm. longa, teres ] 

 foliola oblique oblonga vel lanceolato-oblonga, acuminata, basi obtusa 

 vol acuta, 7-12 cm. longa, 4-4*5 cm. lata, coriacea, glabra, supra 

 saturate viridia, infra pallidiora, nervis lateralibus utrinque eirciter 10, 

 cum venis reticulatim anastoraosantibus utrinque prominulis ; petioluli 

 laterales 4-8 mm., terminalis 20 mm. longus. Flores unisexuales cum 

 partibus alterius sexus magis minusve reductis, in paniculas subter- 

 minales 7 '5 cm. longas ferrugineo-tomentellas dispositi, odore 

 Primnlae officinalis (teste Ridley) ; bracteae ininutae, deciduae ; 

 pedicelli ad 6 mm, longi, apice nutantes. Sepala 5, ovata, vix 2 mm. 

 longa, pubescentia. Fetala 5, ovata vel oblonga, sepala paulo exce- 

 dentia, albido-viridia, ininutissime pubescentia. Discus annuliformis, 

 5-crenatus. Stamina 5, cassa ; filamenta brevissima ; antherae 

 minutae, poUine destitutae. Orarinm ovoidcum, trigonum ; stigma 

 3-lobum subsessile, lobis recurvis ; ovula geminata, sub apice loculi 

 pendula. Fructus siccus, drupaceus, 3-alatus, ambitu late ovoi- 

 deus, acuminatus, basi subcordatus vel rotundatus, 5-6*5 cm. 

 longus, 2-5 cm. diametro, exocarpio lignoso-coriaceo in valvas 3 

 deciduas quasi septicide soluto, axi 3-alata persistente ; pyrenae in 

 loculis solitariae, monospermae, chartaceo-crustaceae, 12-16 mm, 

 lono^ae, 3-ans:ulatae, faciebus late obovato-lanceolatis ad anerulos 

 laterales ala suborbiculari bruneseente tenuissima ad 5 cm. diam. 

 circumdatae. Seniiua pyrenis conformia ; testa tenuis; endosperma 

 nullum. Emhryo pallide viridis, cotylGdonibus foliaceis contortu- 

 j>licatis, radicula brevi. — A. Bennet in Ilook. /. FL BriL hid, i. 

 p. 258 ; E^igl, in DC, Man, Phan. iv. p, 30 ; Ridley in Jourii. Roy, As. 

 Soc. Straits Branch, 1901, p. 86. 



Malay Penixsula : Malacca, Griffith Singapore ] in the forest of 

 the Botanic Garden, Ridley, 6530 ; "11236, Sumatra ; Lampongs, by 

 the river Tarabangi, Trysmann. 



