426 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3, 



leno-th 3*5 to 8'5 in., breadth 1*2 to 3 in., petiolules '2 in. Racemes 

 solitary or in pairs, axillary, usually longer than the leaves, slender, 

 adpressed-puberulous, sparsely flowered : pedicels slender, bracteoles 

 minate. Flowers globular before expansion, '15 in. in diam. Sepals 5, 

 red, orbicular, slightly concave, much imbricate. Petals smaller than 

 the sepals, the edges infolded at the base so as to simulate 2 scales, some- 

 times absent. Stamens 8, inserted inside the pentagonous disc ; fila- 

 ments hairy at the base ; anthers short, ovate, obtuse. Ovary stalked, 

 compressed, broadly ovate, with short glabrous sub-connate styles, 2- 

 celled. Fruit deeply 2-lobed ; the lobes divergent, obovate, each '35 in. 

 long, style persistent between the bases of the lobes. Otophora paucijuga, 

 Hiern in Hook. fll. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 680. 



Malacca : Maingay, No. 462. Perak : Scortechini, No. 1674. 



The leaflets in Scortechini's specimens are rather larger than in 

 Maingay's ; in other respects they agree. 



2. Aphania MONTANA, Blume Bijdr. 236. A shrub ; young branches 

 glabrous, minutely lenticellate. Leaves 6 to 12 in. long, unequally pin- 

 nate : leaflets 3 to 5, elliptic to oblong, sub-acute, the base cuneate, both 

 surfaces glabrous and minutely reticulate ; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs ; 

 length 4*5 to 6 in., breadth l"7o to 3 in., petiolules '25 in. Panicles 

 axillary, 4 to 9 in. long, solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3, each with a 

 few lax raceme-like branches, rusty-puberulous. Floivers about '25 in. 

 in diam. Sepals 4, in decussate pairs, ovate-rotund. Petals 4, ovate, 

 glabrous, the edges fimbriate like those of the sepals; each with a short 

 fimbriate basal scale. Disc fleshy, lobed, sub-pubescent. Stamens 8, with 

 short thick pubescent filaments inserted inside the disc : anthers ovate, 

 slightly sagittate. Ovary 2-celled ; style short, glabrous. Fruit 1- usu- 

 ally 2-coccous, fleshy, glabrous : the cocci divaricate, ellipsoid, about 

 •5 in. long. Sapindus montanus, Blume Rumphia, 197 : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 I, pt. 2. p. 552. 



Nicobar and Andaman Islands : King's Collectors. Nicobars : 

 Jelinek. 



3. Aphania Danuea, Radlk. iiber die Sapind. Holland-Indiens, 69. 

 A shrub, all parts except the inflorescence glabrous. Leaves simple, 

 sub-verticellate or alternate, sub-coriaceous, oblong, elliptic, oblanceo- 

 late or obovate, acute or acuminate, narrowed to the sometimes cordate 

 base : both surfaces reticulate and shining; main nerves 10 to 16 pairs, 

 faint, spreading ; length 8 to 12 in., breadth 1*5 to 3*5 in. ; petiole *3 in. 

 to '1 in., stout. Panicle terminal, on a long peduncle, puberulous ; the 

 branches spreading, divergent. Flowers numerous, pink, bracts minute. 

 Sepals 5, unequal, sub-rotund, concave. Petals 5, equal, ovate, emargi- 

 nate, each with a bifid woolly scale at its base. ■ Lisc annular. Stamens 



