1896. J G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 4.47 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 695, 885, 4456 ; Scortochini, No. 20 ; 

 Wray, No. 316. Singapore: Ridley, No. 5995. Selaiigor : Ridley, 

 No. 1609. 



14. MiSCHOCARPUS, Bl. 



Trees wifcli alternate exstipulate unequally pinnate leaves : leaflets 

 1 to 5 pairs, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, entire, usually glabrous. 

 Uacemes axillary, simple or branched. Galyx small, cup-shaped, 

 5-partite, the segments imbricate. Petals 5, each with 2 large pecti- 

 nate scales, or absent. Disc entire, annular. Stamens 8 or fewer. 

 Fruit pyriform, blunt, 3-angled or 3-grooved, or smooth, pedicelled, rarely 

 sessile, 3-celled; the pericarp thin, fleshy, sclerenchymatous inside. 

 Seeds more or less completely enveloped in a thin arillus with 2 spur- 

 like processes near its base. Cotyledons lying above each other, radicle 

 short. — DiSTRiB. About a dozen species, Malayan and Australasian. 

 Petals 5, minute, caducous ... ... 1. M, fuscescens. 



Petals 0. ■ 



Fruit truncately pyriform, boldly 3-angled ... 2. M. simdiacus. 



Fruit pyriform, not truncate, not angled ... 3. M. sumatrahus. 



1. MiSCHOCARPUS FUSCESCENS, Blumc Rumphia III, 166. A tree 

 50 to 70 feet high : all parts except the inflorescence glabrous. Leaves 

 9 to 12 in. long, equally or unequally pinnate ; leaflets 4 to 6, elliptic- 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sub-acuminate, cuneate at the base, both 

 surfaces shining and finely reticulate, foveolate in the axils beneath ; 

 main nerves 12 to 15 pairs, slightly conspicuous beneath, curving : length 

 4 to 8 in., breadth 1*5 to 2 in.; petiolules '25 in., stout! Panicles 

 axillary or terminal, erect, puberulous ; the branches few, racemose 

 with the flowers in small cymes. Calyx sub-valvate. Petals 5, minute. 

 Stamens 8. Bisc hairy. Ovary pyriform, entire, stipitate. Fruit obovoid, 

 with a faint vertical ridge, glabrous, "4 in. long, its pseudo-stalk '25 in. 

 long. Radlk, I. c. 646. Cupania fuscescens, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. 1, pt. 

 2, 567 ; G. Helferi, Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 679. 



Selangor : Ridley, No. 1916. Perak : King's Collector, No. 2689 ; 

 Scortechini.— DiSTR[B. British India : Sylhet, Wall. Cat. 8018, 9035. 

 Burma : Griffith, 987 ; Heifer, 982/1. 



2. MiSCHOCARPUS SUNDIACUS, Blume Bijdr. 238; Rumphia III, 167. 

 A tree 25 to 50 feet high ; young branches slightly puberulous or glabrous. 

 Leaves 6 to 10 in. long, equally or unequally pinnate ; leaflets 3 to 6, 

 elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sub-acuminate, cuneate and some- 

 times slightly oblique, at the base : both surfaces glabrous, shining 

 and very minutely reticulate ; the lower paler, foveolate iu the axils of 

 the 8 to 10 pairs of faint ascending curving main nerves : length 2*5 to 



