1890.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 427 



6 to 8. Ovary 2-celled, stigma bifid. Fruit 2-coccous j each coccus 

 ellipsoid, pulpy, '35 to '5 in. long. Sapindus Danura, Voigt Hort. 

 Bot. Suburb. Calc. 94 : Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 684 ; Kurz For. 

 Flora, Burma, I, 298. Scytalia Danura, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 29 ; Fi. Ind. 

 II, 274. 3c. verticillata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 29; Fl. Ind. II, 273. 

 Euphoria verticillata, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1059 ; Wall. Cat. 8052 A, B, C. 

 Dimocarpus verticillata^ Hb. Roxb. ex Wall. I.e. A. Nephelium verticil' 

 latum, G. Don Gen. Sysfc. I, 670. F. Danura, Wall. Cat. 8051. Didy- 

 mococcus Da7iura, Blume Rumph. Ill, 103. D. verticillatus, Blume I.e. 

 Nicobar Islands ; Kurz. — Distrib. British India. 



6. Lepisanthes, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate, exstipulate, alternate; leaflets 

 entire, subopposite. Inflorescence axillary or lateral, in paniculate 

 spikes. Flowers regular or irregular, polygamo-dioecious. Sepals 5-4, 

 widely imbricated in two rows. Petals 5-4, equal, each having at the 

 base one or two short wide inflected scales. Disc annular, regular or 

 irregular (one-sided). Stamens 8 or 10, erect, inserted within the disc. 

 Ovary sessile, 3-sided, 3-celled ; ovules solitary ; style simple ; stigma blunt 

 or trigonous. Fruit 3-celled, 3-sided, not lobed. Seeds solitary, erect, 

 exalbuminous ; cotyledons very thick, unequal. — Distrib. about 16 

 species, tropical Asiatic. 

 Panicles 9 to 12 in. long. 



Fruit 1*5 in. in diam. 



Fruit '8 in. in diam. 

 Panicles 1 to 3 in. long. 



Leaflets 4 to 9 in. long 



Leaflets 12 to J 8 in. long. 



Fruit tomentose but not echinate 

 Fruit tomentose and echinate 



I. Lepisanthes Kunstleri, King n. sp. A tree 30 to 60 feet 

 high ; young branches stout. Leaves 30 to 40 inches long, their rachises 

 glabrous : leaflets about 12, subopposite, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 

 shortly cuspidate, the base rounded, both surfaces glabrous and reti- 

 culate ; main nerves 9 to 13 pairs, spreading slightly, ascending ; length 

 6 to 12 in., breadth 2'5 to 3*5 in. ; petiolules "3 to '4 in., stout. Panicles 

 slightly supra-axillary, erect, few-branched, shortly pedunculate, 9 to 

 12 in. long: ultimate branchlets cymose, 3- to 5-flowered, minutely 

 tomentose. Floiuers '4 in. long, globular in bud. Sepals 5, concave, 

 minutely tomentose outside. Petals 5, sericeous in the lower half exter- 

 nally, glabrous in the upper, each with an inflected glabrous bifid basal 

 scale. Stamens 8, the filaments sericeous. Disc semi-lunar, glabrous. 



1. 



L. Kunstleri, 



2. 



L. andamanica. 



3. 



L. cuneata. 



4. 



Ij. Scortechinii. 



5. 



L. longifolia. 



