Meliosma.'] XLV. SABIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 7 



Jfort. Suit. 32 ; Rumphia, iii. 202, tab. 169 ; Nees in Flora, 1825, 106 (Milling- 

 tonia) ; Mtq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 617. Irina integerrima, Blume Rijd. 231. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



A moderate-sized tree; branchlets glabrous. Leaves l-l ft.; petiole nearly 

 terete ; leaflets 6-10 in., opposite, very variable in shape, coriaceous, shining on 

 both surfaces ; nerves arched, much reticulate ; petiolules -- in. Panicle stout, 

 erect, rusty-pubescent, with rather spreading short pubescence; bracts acuminate, 

 ciliate. Sepals and bracteoles 5, the outermost very small, broadly v orbicular-ovate, 

 rather thick, glabrous. Petals subvalvate. Filaments larger than usual in the 

 genus, -without lateral teeth, the scale (petal) behind them being larger, elliptic and 

 entire. Frioit nearly f in. diam. I think there can be no doubt but that this is 

 Jack's M. Sumatrana ; and that it is the same -with Blume's M. nitida. I have 

 in proof Java specimens of the latter named by Blume. Jack .states that the ter- 

 minal leaflet is sometimes absent. Griffith has a single imperfect specimen of 

 apparently this plant from Malacca, with a few spinulose teeth on the upper part of 

 the leaflets ; it may be M. confusa, Bl. of Sumatra. 



11. IKE. lanceolata, Blume Cat. Jfort. Suit. 32; Rumphia, iii. 200, 

 t. 168 (B. excepted), v&i'.pubescens; pubescent, leaflets 6-8 pairs, very coriaceous 

 linear-oblong caudate-acuminate pubescent beneath margins recurved, panicle 

 tomentose with very long branches. 



MALACCA, Mt. Ophir, Griffith, Maingay (M. Sumatrana, Kew distrib. not of 

 ~Jaclc\- DISTKIB. Sumatra, Borneo. 



A tree ; branchlets stout, rusty-pubescent. Leaves 1-2 ft. ; petiole stout, terete ; 

 leaflets 5-7 by 1^-lf in., often recurved and subfalcate, base rounded, rigidly coriaceous, 

 shining above, opaque and pubescent beneath with much raised nerves ; petiolules 

 stout, ^ in. Panicles very large, with long spreading branches, almost velvety w r ith 

 rusty tomentum. Flowers minute, rather scattered, sessile or nearly so. Sepals 

 and bracteoles 4 or 5, broadly orbicular-ovate, glabrous, outer ciliate. Petals valvate. 

 Filaments short ; scales 2-fid. Fruit not seen. The Bornean and Sumatra specimens 

 are more glabrous on the leaflets beneath, but I find no other difference. 



NAT. ORD. XLVL ANACARDIACEJE. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Trees or shrubs ; juice often milky and acrid. Leaves alternate, opposite in 

 Bouea, exstipulate, simple or compound. Inflorescence, various ; flowers small, 

 regular, unisexual, polygamous, or bisexual. Calyx 3-5-partite, sometimes 

 accrescent, spathaceous in Gluta. Petals 3-5, alternate with the sepals, free, 

 rarely 0, imbricate or valvate in bud, sometimes accrescent. Disk flat, 

 cup-shaped or annular, entire or lobed, rarely obsolete. Stamens as many as 

 the petals, rarely more, inserted under, rarely on, the disk, filaments usually 

 subulate ; anthers 2-celled, basi- or dorsi-fixed. Ovary superior, half inferior 

 in Holi(/arna, 1- or 2-6-celled, rudimentary or 2-3-fid in the' ; of 5-6 free 

 carpels in Buchanania styles 1-4, or stigma subsessile ; ovules solitary in the 

 cells, pendulous from the top or wall or from an ascending basal funicle. 

 Fruit usually a 1-5-celled 1-5-seeded drupe ; stone sometimes dehiscent. Seed 

 exalburninous ; embryo straight or curved, cotyledons plano-convex, radicle 

 short. DISTRIB. Chiefly tropical ; genera about 45 ; species about 450. 



Sorindcia Madagascariensis, DC. (Wall. Cat. 8491), is cultivated in gardens in 

 India. 



TRIBE I. Anacardieae. Ovary 1-celled, or if 2-celled, with one cell 

 -.early suppressed. 



A. Ovules pendulous from a basal funicle. 



