1898.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 61 



Perak ; near Ulu Kerling, King's Collector in flower during March 

 only once collected. 



8. Heteropanax, Seem. 



A small unarmed tree. Leaves glabrous or nearly so, very large, 

 pinnately decompound, stipules not prominent. Panicles large, the 

 branches bearing umbels, stellate-hairy ; bracts of umbels small, ovate, 

 obtuse, persistent; pedicels not jointed to the flowers. Floivers polyga- 

 mous, the female flowers most numerous in the terminal umbel. Calyx- 

 limb minutely toothed. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5, filaments filiform, 

 anthers ovate. Dish nearly flat ; ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, slender, free 

 from the base, spreading, the stigmas sub-terminal. Fruit laterally 

 compressed, coriaceous, almost didymous, 2-seeded. Seeds compressed, 

 albumen ruminate. Species 1 or 2 ; Indo-Chinese. 



Heteropanax fragrans, Seem. Kev. Hed. 73. A tree 40-60 feet 

 high ; all parts glabrous. Leaves large, the lower often 3 feet across, 

 pinnately decompound, the pinnae with a pair of opposite leaflets at 

 their forks ; leaflets ovate or ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate ; the 

 base slightly oblique, not narrowed ; variable in size (2"5-5 in. long, 

 and l'5-2'5 in. broad) ; petiolules of lateral leaflets '1-2 in. long, that 

 of the terminal one '8-1 in. Panicles terminal, longer than the leaves ; 

 flowers small, whitish-tomentose, in small condensed umbels, their 

 pedicels under '25 in. long ; fruit compressed, sub-reniform, sub- 

 glabrous, slightly glaucous, *35 in. across. Brandis For. Flora 249 

 Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 541 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Tnd. II, 

 734. Panax fragrans, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 2 1 ; Flor. Ind. II, 76 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 4929 ; DC. Prodr. IV, 254 (excl. si/n. of Don). 



Andaman Islands ; King's Collector. Distrib. Brit. India, Java, 

 China. 



9. Brassaiopsis, Decne. & Planch. 



Large shrubs or trees, glabrous or tomentose, aimed or not. Leaves 

 digitate or palmate or angled ; stipules connate within the petiole, not 

 prominent. Umbels in large compound panicles, young parts at least 

 stellately tomentose ; bracts not large, often persistent ; pedicels rising 

 from a dense cluster of persistent bracteoles, not jointed under the 

 often polygamous flowers. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 

 5. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, united, long or short. Fruit broadly 

 globose or turbinate, 2- or (by abortion) 1-seeded. Seed not com- 

 pressed; albumen ruminated. Distrib. Species 11 ; Northern Brit. 

 India to Java. 



Brassaiopsis palmata, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XXXIX 



