4-10 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3, 



Avliicli are the only ones known. It is therefore doubtful M'hether they 

 really helong to the former wliich, but for the pubescence on the under 

 suj'face of the leaves, might belong to N. glah'ttm, Noronlia. 



10. PoMETiA, J. R. & G. Forst. 



Tall trees. Leaves alternate, pinnate ; leaflets subopposite, entire 

 or serrate (the lowest pair usually stipuliform). Racemes simple or 

 panicled, elongated, slender. Flowers regular, polygamous, fascicled, 

 small, shorter than their pedicels. Calyx cup-shaped, 6-4-fid, valvate 

 in bud. Petals 5-4, small, usually without scales. Disc complete, 

 annular, lobed. Stamens 4-8, usually 6-4, inserted within the disc, at 

 length much exserted i anthers small. Ovary 2-3-coccous and -celled ; 

 ovules solitary. Style elongated ; stigma obtuse, emarginate. Fruit 

 1-2-coccous ; lohes subglobose or ellipsoidal, indehiscent, smooth. 

 Seeds exalbuminous, covered with a mucilaginous aril. — Distrib. Species 

 about 4, in Malaya Ceylon and Australasia. 



Calyx and leaflets quite glabrous, panicles sub- 

 glabrous... • ... ... ... 1.* P. macrocarpa. 



Calyx always pubescent, leaflets glabrous or 

 pubescent ; inflorescence puberulous or pubes- 

 cent. 



Leaves 12 to 24 in. long ... .,, 2. P, pinnata^ 



Leaves 3 to 8 in. long 



Leaflets oblanceolate, caudate-acuminate; 

 petals oblong, much long-er than the calyx ; 

 panicles much longer than the leaves ... 3. P. gracilis. 

 Leaflets oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, not 

 caudate-acuminate ; petals often absent, if 

 present rotund and not much exceeding the 

 calyx ; panicles not lox^ger than the leaves 4. P. alnifolia. 

 1. PoMETiA MACROCARPA, Kurz in Journ. 4^8. Soc. Bengal,yol. XLI V, 

 pt. II, (1875), p. 205. A glabrous tree ; leaves 9 to 12 in. long, the 

 rachises glabrous and the petioles thickened at the base : leaflets cai'ia- 

 ceous, oblong or elliptic-oblong, slightly unequaLsided^ shortly acumi- 

 nate, the edges with remote glandular teeth, the base rounded ; both sur- 

 faces quite glabrous, the lower paler and with the reticulations distinct, 

 the midrib prominent on both ; main n,erv^s 15 to 18 pairs, spreading, 

 depressed on the upper, prominent on the lower surface ; length 4"5 to 

 G in., breadth 1 '75 to 2 in ; petiolules *2 in., stout. Panicles axillary, 

 about as long as the leaves, with several sub-glabrous racemoid bran- 

 ches bearing the flowers in cymules. Flowers '\ in. in diam., on glabrous 

 pedicels twice as long as themselyes, Qalyoc glabrous^ 5-lobed. Feta,l 



