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



Wall. IT, 442: ed. 1832 I, 645. A tall tree: young parts mi- 

 imfcely tawny, puberulous. Leaves 12 to 18 in. long, the rachises 

 slightly puberulous ; leaflets 6 to 12, opposite or alternate, oblong to 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, the base obliquely 

 cuneate, both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves 8 to 12 pairs, curving 

 upwards, puberulous or glabrous : length 2'5 to 8 in., breadth 1*35 to 

 2*75 in., petiolule "15 in. Panicles with few short branches, terminal 

 or axillary, puberulous. Flowers large, '3 in. in diam. Sepals 5, free, 

 unequal, broadly oblong or sub-rotund, minutely pubescent outside. 

 Petals 5, narrower than the sepals but longer. Stamens 5, shorter than 

 the petals, the anthers oblong. Vise small, puberulous. Ovary broadly 

 ovoid, compressed, grooved, pubescent; style short, reflexed ; stigyna smaM, 

 2-lobed. Fruit capsular, broadly reniform, compressed, 2-lobed, glabrous. 

 Seed semioval, the aril orange-coloured and covering the whole seed. 

 Hiernin Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 692 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 

 570 : Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 287 : Wall. Cat. 8078. Harpullia rupestris, 

 Bl. B<umphia, III, 175. H. fruticosa, Bl. Z. c. 179. H. fraxinifolia^ 

 Bl. I. c. 176. H. thanatophora^ Bl. I. c. 178. Streptostigma viridifloruriif 

 Thwaites in Hook. Kew Journ., VI, 298, t. 9. 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 1015, 7074 ; Scortechini. Anda- 

 mans : King's Collector. 



19. TuRPiNTA, Vent. 



Trees or shrubs with glabrous and shining leaves, and smooth terete 

 branches. Leaves opposite, stipulate, usually odd-pinnate; leaflets opposite, 

 stipellate, serrulate, sub-coriaceous. Panicles terminal and axillary ; flowers 

 small, regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-partite, imbricf^ted. Petals 5, 

 imbricated. Statnens 5, inserted outside the lobed or crenulate raised 

 disc ; filaments flattened ; anthers short. Ovary sessile, 3-lobed and 

 -celled ; styles 3, combined or distinct ; stigmas sub-capitate ; ovules 2 to- 

 gether or more and then in two rows. Fruit sub-globose, indehiscent, 

 3-celled. Seeds angular ; testa hard, shining ; hilum large ; albumen 

 fleshy ;an7 0. Embryo straight. — Distrtb. About ten species in sub- 

 tropical Asia and America. 



TuRPiNiA POMiFEREA, DC. Prod. II, 3. A tree 30 to 40 feet high, all 

 parts glabrous. Leaves stipulate, 8 to 15 in. long, mostly unequally 

 pinnate ; leaflets * 5 to 10, thinly coriaceous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 shortly acuminate, the edges serrate, the base cuneate ; main nerves 

 5 or 6 pairs, remote, ascending ; length 25 to 8 in., breadth 1 to 3 in., 

 petiolules of the lateral leaflets '25 to '35 in., of the terminal one vary- 

 ing from 1 to 2 in. ; stipules interpetiolar or triangular, caducuous. Pani- 

 cles spreading, shorter than the leaves; the branches diverging, brae- 



