J 896.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 441 



0. Stamens 5 ; anthers broadly ova.tc, glabrous ; filaments pubescent and 

 thickened towards the base. Ovary sparsely pubescent, 2-lobed. Fruit 

 ovoid, glabrous, 1*5 to 2 in. long ; the pericarp thick, spongy inside. 

 Seed single with a short arillus. Radlk. lib. Sapind. Holl.-Ind. No. 82. 



Malacca : Main gay, No. 463. 



A species known only by Maingay's scanty and imperfect speci- 

 mens. 



2. PoMETiA PINNATA, Forst. Char. Gen. UO. A tree 30 to 50 

 feet high ; young branches puberulous or glabrescent. Leaves 12 to 36 

 in. long, equally pinnate, the rachises angled, the petioles swollen 

 at the base, glabrous or glabrescent ; leaflets 4 to 12 pairs, sub-opposite, 

 thinly coriaceous, oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, acute or shortly acu- 

 minate, the edges coarsely and remotely serrate, the base rounded 

 sub-cordate or cuneate ; the lower leaflets smaller than the upper: 

 the lowest very small, sub-rotund, and sometimes less than 1 in. long : 

 the upper varying in length from 4 to 12 in. and in breadth from 1'75 

 to 4 in. ; petiolules 'IS in., stout : both surfaces glabrous or puberulous, 

 often pubescent On the midrib and nerves, the reticulations minute ; 

 main nerves numerous, parallel, prominent beneath. Panicles axillary 

 or terminal, spreading, puberulous, shorter than the leaves, their 

 branches spreading and often with auricled bva^cts at their bases. 

 Flowers numerous, pedicellate, '1 in. in diam., polygamous. Calyx 

 pubescent, deeply divided into 4 or 5 triangular teeth. Petals 4 or 5, 

 small, glabrous or slightly pubescent, without a basal scale. Disc 

 fleshy, lobed, glabrous. Stamens 5 or 6, the anthers glabrous, the 

 filaments subulate and puberulous. Ovary obcordate, bilobed : style 

 longer than the ovary, bifid at the apex. Fruit usually reduced to 

 a single lobe, ellipsoid, blunt, glabrous, 1-seeded, variable in size ; 

 length from '75 to 1*25 in. ; diam. from '5 to '8 in. P. tomentosa, Kurz 

 Andaman Report, ed, % p. 34 ; For. Flora Burma, I, 295 ; Hiern in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 691. Irina glabra, Blume Bijdr. 230 ; Rum- 

 phia. III, 113; Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. ^84; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. T, pt. 2, 

 558. Irina dijplocardia, Blume Rumphia, HI, 115. Pometia eximia, 

 Bedd. Fl, Sylv. t. 157. Fcovemanthus eximius, Thwaites in Hook. Kew 

 Journ. VII, 272, t. 9. Nephelium eximiwn, Thwaites Enum, 57. — 

 Rumph. Herb. Amboin, III, 31, t. 17. 



Malacca ; Main gay, No. 459. Perak : very common ; King's Col- 

 lector. -^Pistrib. Ceylon. 



3. Pometia gracilis. King n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet high ; the 

 branches slender, drooping, the youngest ciiiereous-puberulous, minutely 

 lenticellate. Leaves 5 to 8 in. long, their rachises minutely rusty- 

 pubescent j leaflets 5 to 8, opposite, membranous, the upper ones the 



