xxxvu. MELIACE^E. (W. P. Hiern.) 557 



shortly pedicellate arranged in ample many-flowered pyramidal panicles 

 shorter than the leaves, fruits in short panicles ellipsoidal 



PENANG? top of the hill, Maingay. (? Sincapore, Lolib.} 



A tree of 8 ft. with slender stem. Leaves 3 ft. or more ; leaflets glaucescent above, 

 6-11 by 3-4 in. ; petiolule |- in. Inflorescence 6-12 in. long. Fruit \ in. long. 



Specimens from Sincapore, collected by Lobb, with ovate-oblong leaves and short 

 dense young panicles, probably belongs to this species. Maingay's specimens are 

 marked as " from top of hill" simply, Penang being probably intended. 



12. A. minutiflora, Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. i. 44, t. 193 ; pubescence 

 ferruginous- or rufous-stellate, leaflets 7-15 opposite or subopposite narrowly 

 elliptic or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, base subcordate rounded or sub- 

 cuneate, panicles divaricately branched many-flowered, flowers shortly 

 pedicelled, fruit subglobose 1-2-seeded. A. polyantha, Bedd. I.e. Euphora 

 exstipulatis, Griff. Notul. iv. 547. 



A handsome slender tree of 25 or 40 ft. with hard wood. Leaves 6-24 in. or more ; 

 leaflets 2-7 by -2 in., stellate-hairy beneath, glabrescent above except midrib. Pa- 

 nicles half to all the lengtb of the leaves. Fruit -1 by 4~| in. 



There are two forms, possibly distinct species. 



a. travancorica ; leaflets usually subcordate, flowers ^ i n - thick, corolla subglabres- 

 cent. Courtallum, Wight; Travancor, Western Ghats, alt. 2-3500 ft., Beddome. 



/3. Griffithii; leaflets subcuneate or rounded at the base sometimes with pellucid dots, 

 flowers minute, " cotyledons amygdaloid superposed, radicle imbedded between the 

 cotyledons its apex perpendicular to the ventral face of the seed its opposite pole deli- 

 cately pilose" (Maingay mss.}. Tenasserim and Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 



** Flowers clustered in small spikes. 



13. A. cordata, Hiern ; pubescence rufous-stellate, leaflets subsessile 

 7 elliptic opposite finely acuminate, base more or less cordate, flowers 

 small sessile in little spike-like clusters arranged on a pyramidal panicle 

 nearly equalling or shorter than the leaves. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



Leaves 12-18 in. ; leaflets 4-8 by 2-34 i n - Panicles 5-10 in. long or more. 



FORM 1. Calyx glabrous. 



FORM 2. Calyx hirsute. 



14. A. palembanica, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 507 ; Ann. Miis. 

 Lugd.-Bat. iv. 52; pubescence rufous-stellate, leaflets 11-13 opposite or 

 subopposite elliptic acuminate somewhat cuneate at the base shortly petio- 

 lulate, flowers small sessile in little spike-like clusters arranged on a 

 pyramidal panicle rather shorter than the leaves, fruit depresso-globose. 

 A. Sippannas, Miq. I.e. 506. A. tomentosa, Teysm. & Binn. in Nat. 

 Tijdsc.hr. Ned. Ind. xxvii. 43. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. DISTRIB. Sumatra and S. Borneo. 

 Leaves 6-12 in.; leaflets 2-4 by f-1^ in., minutely pellucid-punctate (Maingay} ; 

 petiolule - in. Panicles 44-9 in. 'long. 



10. Z.ANSXU2VE, Rumph. 



Trees, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves odd-pinnate with quite entire 

 alternate or opposite shortly petiolulate leaflets. Flowers polygamo- 

 dicecious, 5-merous, axillary, male usually paniculate, the female fcpicate- 

 racemose. Sepals rounded, imbricated. Petals rounded, connivent, imbri- 



