158 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
17۸7۸500۸18258, 
Nat. 0۳0, ۰ 
Glabrous or puberulous, rarely scabrid, resinous trees, with inconspicuous fugaccous 
stipules. Leaves entire, coriaceous or membranous, penni-nerved. Flowers secund, sessile 
or shortly pedicelled. Sepals distinct or united at the base, imbricated, two quite external 
to the others; in fruit sub-equal, only slightly enlarged, woody, thickened, and forming 
a 5-lobed cup round the base of (but rarely enveloping) the fruit, not adnate to it and 
never expanding into wings. Petals elliptic, obliquely acuminate, the apices slightly 
inflexed in bud or not inflexed at all. Stamens 15, attached to the bases of the petals, in 
3 rows, or 10 in 2 rows, sub-eqval, the filaments much dilated at the base, the connective 
prolonged into a straight apical awn longer than the ovate anther. Torus flat. Ovary 
3-celled, cells 2-ovuled, ovules collateral. Style short. Stigma minute, entire. Fruit 
oblong or sub-globose, apiculate; the pericarp ligneous or sub-ligneous. Seed solitary, 
erect; cotyledons fleshy, plano-concave, the larger 2- or 3-lobed, or entire; the radicle 
prominent. Distrib.—Southern Peninsular India, Malaya ;—probably 12 species. 
PLATE 191A. 
BALANOCARPUS Совтви, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1893, pt. 2, p. 181. 
A tree 20 to 30 feet high; young brances slender, the bark dark-coloured, puberulous. 
Leaves membranous, ovate-lanceolate, bluntly caudate-acuminate, the base slightly cuneate; 
both surfaces glabrous, dull; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, spreading, faint and scarcely more 
prominent than the secondary nerves; length 2 to 25 in., breadth “75 to 1:15 in., petiole 
1 to ‘15 in. Panieles axillary and terminal, shorter than the leaves, glabrescent, lax, 
each with a few 3- to 5-flowered spreading branches. Flowers secund, shortly pedicelled, 
15 in. long. Sepals distinct, sub-equal, thick, rotund- ovate very obtuse, puberulous out- 
` side, glabrous inside, the edges slightly ciliate. Petals elliptic, ob'iquely shortly and 
bluntly acuminate, glabrescent inside, partiy puberulous and partly glabrous outside. 
Stamens 15, in 3 rows, sub-equal; the filaments slightly longer than the anthers, dilated: 
anthers broadly elliptic, truncate, the connective produced into an apical awn longer than 
the stamen. Ovary cylindric, truncate, glabrous, the style short and stigma minute. Fruit 
smooth, globular, apiculate, crowned by the sub-sessile discoid stigma, enveloped by, but 
not adherent to, the slightly thickened sepals, "25 to :3 in. in diam. (calyx included). 
Penang: Curtis, No. 1406. Perak: King's Collector, Nos. 3171, 3291, 6543; Wray, 
No. 2860. 
Prate 191A. Balanocarpus Curtisii, King. 1, branch with flowers and flower-buds; 2, twig with ripe fruit: of 
natural size; 3, flower bud; 4, petals opened up showing the stamens in situ; 5, ovary; 6, section of ovary: enlarged ; 
7, stamens: much enlarged. 
PLATE 191B. 
BALAN US PENANGIANUS, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1890, pt. 2, p. 181. 
` A tree 40 to 50 feet high; young branches slender, dark-coloured, lenticellate, 
slightly puberulous at the very tips. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate or ovate- 
* — . Seuminate, often caudate-acuminate, the base slightly cuneate or almost rounded, the 
