44G G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No, 3, 



in. long ; their racliises terete, glabrous ; leajlet^ 11 to 15, narrowly 

 oblong-lanceolate, shining on both surfaces : main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, 

 faint, spreading ; length 2 to 3"5 in., breadth '6 to "8 in., petiolules 

 '2 in. Racemes paniculate, erect, terminal or axillary, tawny-tonaentose, 

 the flowers on long tomentose bracteolate pedicels. Calyx tomentose 

 externally. Stamens long-exserted, the filaments hairy. Fruit apiculate, 

 nearly 2 in. long and 1'2 in. in diam. Cupama acuta, Hiern in Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 676. Sapindacea, Wall. Cat. 9036. 



Singapore: Wallich, Hullett; Ridley, No. 4i64!8. Pahang: Ridley. 

 Malacca : Maingay, No. 445. 



18. Arytera, Blume. 



Shrubs or trees with pinnate 1-5-jugate leaves : the leaflets elliptic 

 or lanceolate, entire, sometimes foveolate in the nerve-axils underneath. 

 Panicles axillary or terminal. Calyx small, cupular ; the sepals 5, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, each with 2 pectinate basal scales. Disc entire, 

 annular. Stamens 8. Fruit 2- to 3-celled, shortly stipitate, lobed ; the 

 lobes elliptic, obcordate or obovate, always divaricate : the pericarp 

 fleshy ontside, sclerenchymatous inside. Seed entirely or almost entirely 

 enveloped in an inappendiculate arillus ; cotyledons thick, fleshy, super- 

 posed, radicle short. — Distrib. Malayan Archipelago and Peninsula, 

 S. China and Australasia ; about twenty species. 



Arytera littoralis, Blume Rnmphia, III, 170. A tree 25 to 30 feet 

 high : young branches rusty-puberulous. Leaves abruptly pinnate, 6 to 13 

 in. long, their rachises rusty-puberulous becoming glabrescent, not winged ; 

 leaflets 2 or 3 pairs, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sub-acuminate, the base 

 cuneate, both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, slightly 

 prominent beneath, ascending, curved; length 3 to 6 in., breadth 1'5 

 to 3 in. ; petiolules '25 in., stout. Panicles axillary, short, many- 

 branched, rusty-puberulous. Flowers minute. Calyx with 5 short teeth, 

 pubescent outside. Petals 5, slightly longer than the calyx, broadly 

 cuneate, obliquely emarginate or bifid at the apex, pubescent on the 

 upper surface. Anthers puberulous, filaments hairy. Fruit coriaceous, 

 glabrous, 2-lobed; the lobes usually compressed, oblong, bl ant, one of 

 them often smaller than the other. Radlkofer in Sitzb. Bayer, 

 Akad. Math. Phys. IX, (1875), p. 552. Cupania adenophylla, Planch, ex 

 Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 677 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I; 285. 

 Sapindus adenophyllus, Wall. Cat. 8044. 



Malacca : Griffith, Maingay, No. 439. Andamans : King's Col- 

 lectors. Nicobars : Jelinek. Pahang : Ridley, No. 2162.— Distrtb. 

 Burma : Heifer, 989 ; Griffith, 988. Sumatra : Forbes, No. 2624. 



Yar. major. A tree 30 to 70 feet high; leaflets with 12 to 14 

 pairs of nerves : lohes of fruit oblong, only slightly compressed. 



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