Lepisanthes. 747 



visa); discus semilunaris, glaber; stamina 8 antheraeque dorso lanoso-villosa; germinis 

 rudimentum puberulum; fructus magnus, subglobosus, 3-sulcatus, 3-locularis, loculorum 

 dorso obtusissimo, sufferrugineo-tomentosus, intus subsetoso-hirsutus, pericarpio 

 cellulis resinigeris instructo; semen ellipsoideum, vix compressum, testa tenui fusca 

 endocarpii pilis impressione adhaerentibus adspersa; cotyledones superpositae, amyli 

 granulis parvis foetae, inferior paullo minor; radicula punctiformis, dorsalis, hilo 

 elongato opposita. 



Arbor 30 — 60-pedalis. Folia 0,7 — 1 m longa, rhachi glabra; foliola 15 — 30 cm 

 longa, 6 — 9 cm lata; petioluli 7 — 9 mm longi, crassi. Paniculae 20 — 30 cm longae. 

 Alabastra diametro 4 mm; pedicelli 4 mm longi. Fructus diametro 3 cm; seinen 2,2 cm 

 longum, 1 cm crassum. 



In Peninsula Malaica ad Perak: King's Gollector n. 4634! (flor.), n. 7359! 

 (fruct.; fragmenta tantum visa ex Hb. Calcutt. comm.); »Gunong Bubu at 500— 

 800 ft. alt. (Kunstler)«, ex Ridley, Fl. Malay Penins. I. (1922) 493. 



25. L. basicardia Radlk. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. III. 3. (1907) 345 (reimpr. in 

 Fedde, Repert. VIII. [1910] 188). — Arbor?; rami petiolique sordide puberuli; folia 

 circ. 6-juga, petiolo striato, rhachi supra profunde 2-sulcata; foliola subopposita, 

 elongate oblonga, acuta vel subacuminata, basin versus angustata, basi ipsa oblique 

 cordata, petiolulis brevissimis suffulta, chartacea, nervis lateralibus (utrinque circ. 15) 

 obliquis ante marginem adscendentibus, utrinque reticulato-venosa, subtus ad nervös 

 puberula, opaca, glandulis profunde immersis ornata, diachymate crystallis singulis 

 crebris persito; paniculae pauciramosae, breviter pedunculatae, dense cymulas pauci- 

 floras brevissime stipitatas gerentes, tomentellae; alabastra subglobosa; flores mediocres, 

 pedicellati; sepala puberula; petala 4, ex obovato unguiculata, intus squama singula 

 deflexa obovato-cristata aucta, ungue villoso; discus semilunaris, margine puberulus, 

 supra glabriusculus; stamina 8, filamentis villosis; germinis rudimentum 3-loculare, 

 pilosum; fructus — (non visus). 



Rami circ. 1 cm crassi. Folia petiolo circ. 15 cm longo adjecto circ. 60 cm longa; 

 foliola 20 — 25 cm longa, 5 cm lata. Paniculae circ. 12 cm longae. Alabastra diametro 



2 — 2,5 mm; pedicelli 2 — 3 mm longi. 



In Burma superiore:*Shaik Mokim! (Kachin Hills, a. 1897, fl.; ex Hb. Calcutt. 

 comm. c. Hb. DG.). 



26. L. burmanica Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLIV. 2. (1875) 183, in Rep. 

 Pegu Forests (1875) in Erratis et in Forest Fl. Brit. Burma I. (1877) 291; Radlk. 

 Sap. Holl.-Ind. (1877) 35 (105); Pottinger et Prain, Bot. Kachin Hills in Records Bot. 

 Surv. Ind. I. Nr. 11 (1898) 236; Brandis, Indian Trees (1906) 189. — L. montana, 

 non Blume, Kurz in Rep. Pegu Forests (1875) App. A p. 38, App. B p. 40; Hiern in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. I. (1875) 679. — Arbor mediocris trunco palmarum more simplici 

 plerumque eramoso, cortice griseo-fusco minutim longitudinaliter fisso; rami teretes, 

 lenticellis oblongis bilabiatis instructi petiolique striati puberuli, mox glabrati; folia 



3 — 5-juga, foliola oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, basi obtusa, brevissime petiolulata, 

 chartacea, supra sublaevia, subtus in nervis prominentibus puberula, utrinque opaca, 

 glandulis profunde immersis ornata; thyrsi in paniculas magnas robustas terminales 

 vel rarius supra foliorum axillas laterales congesti, fusco-puberuli, laxe cincinnos vel 

 dichasia stipitata gerentes; flores majusculi, pedicellis longiusculis filiformibus medio 

 articulatis; sepala 5, sordide puberula; petala 4, spathulata, extus ad basin villosa, 

 intus squama singula deflexa cristata albide villosa aucta; discus semilunaris, hirtus; 

 stamina 8, filamenta puberula, antherae late ellipticae, connectivo lato, glabrae; 

 germinis rudimentum triloculare, villosiusculum; fructus sat magnus, subglobosus, 

 trilocularis, obtuse trigonus, apiculatus, carnosus, cellulis resinigeris instructus, extus 

 fusco-tomentosus, intus glaber; semen glabrum, cotyledones oblique superpositae, 

 radicula dorsalis. 



Arbor 20 — 25 pedes alta. Rami 1 — 1,5 cm crassi. Folia petiolo 18 cm longo 



