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



6 in., breadth 1*5 to 2 in., petiolules '16. Panicles of a few racemose 

 branches on which the flowers are arranged as shortly stalked cymes, 

 slightly puberulous. Fruit '25 in. in diara, troncately pyriform^ boldly 

 3- angled, crowned by the short style and narrowed at the base into a 

 thin pseudo-stalk longer than itself, pedicel '15 in. long. Gupania 

 Lessertiana, Camb. Mem. Mus. XVIII, 46 t. 3 ; Hasskarl PI. Jav. Rar. 

 285 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. YoL I, pt. 2, 566 ; Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. I, 678 ; Radlk I. c. 646. Molinaea ? Wall. Cat. 8092. 



Singapore : Wallich. Malacca : Maingay, No. 438; Ridley, No. 1908. 

 Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 4186, 7265 ; Scortechini, Nos. 953, 1458. 

 Andamans ; King's Collector. Penang r Curtis, No. 2433. — Distrib. 

 Burma (Heifer, No. 991); Assam, Khasia, Chittagong. 



This species differs very little from M. fuscescens. It has, how- 

 ever, a less pubescent inflorescence, three petals are often present in the 

 flowers and the fruit is sharply 3-angled. The young branches in this 

 are puberulous whereas those of M. fuscescens are quite glabrous. 



The fruit of this while young is sharply 3-angled ; but as it 

 ripens the angles become obliterated and it closely resembles that of 

 M. Sumatranus and M. fuscescens. This species may, however, be dis- 

 tinguished from these by its smaller leaflets with fewer nerves, 



3. MiscHOCARPUS SUMATRANUS, Blume, Rumphia III, 168. . A tree 

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

 5 to 12 in. long, with angled rachises : leaflets 4 to 8, elliptic-oblong, 

 sub-acuminate, the base cuneate, both surfaces minutely reticulate and 

 shining ; main nerves 9 to 12 pairs, curved, the secondary almost as 

 prominent; length 4 to 8 in., breadth 1*15 to 2*25 in., petiolules '2 

 to '25 in. Panicles as in M. fuscescens. Petals 0. Fruit pyriform, "3 in. 

 in diam., not angled, pseudo-stalk shorter than the fruit and also than 

 the pedicel, pedicel '2 in. Radlk. I. c. 646. Cupania sumatrana, Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. 1, pt. II, 566 ; Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 678. 



Perak: Scortechini, Nos. 97, 484; King's Collector, Nos. 3933, 

 5278, 5391, 5397, 5727, 8307, 8329, 8374, 8403. 



This is very closely allied to M. fuscescens which differs in having 5 

 minute caducous petals. In all other respects the two agree ; and, in 

 my own opinion they ought not both to rank as species. I keep both 

 up however out of deference to Radlkofer whose monograph is a signal 

 example of careful work. 



15. Lepidopetalum, Blume. 



Small trees with 2- to 4-jugate pinnate leaves, tlie leaflets ovate- 

 lanceolate, entire. Racemes axillary, a few inches long, or thyrsiform. 

 Sepals 4, united at the base, valvate. Petals 4, smaller than the sepals, 



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