492 G. Xing — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3, 



collected by Mr. L. Wray in Perak. These have enabled Dr. Stapf, 

 of the Kew Herbaiium, and myself to refer the plant to the genus 

 Sivintonia, its nearest allies being S. fiorihunda and S. Schivenkii. In 

 Wraj's field note on his specimens he writes " flower pale-greenish- 

 yellow : leaves shining, bright green above ; pale and bluish beneath." 



8. Parishia, Hook. fil. 



Tall trees with alternate unequally-pinnate leaves ; the leaflets 

 coriaceous, entire. Panicles large, nodding. Floivers dioecious. Male 

 Flower. Calyx cupular, 4-lobed ; the lobes ovate, valvate. Petals 4, 

 oblong, imbricate. Disc short, annular, obscurely 4-lobed. StaAuens 

 4, inserted below the margin of the disc. Rudimentary ovary cylindric. 

 Female Flower. Calyx 4-lobed, the lobes persistent and greatly en- 

 larged in fruit. Petals 4. Ovary sessile, ovoid, 1-celled ; style terminal, 

 unequally 3-fid, stigmas capitate ; ovule pendulous from near the apex 

 of the cell. Fridt sub-globose, dry, pubescent, bearing the persistent 

 base of the style at its apex, the pericarp thin. Seed pendulous, its 

 testa membranous ; cotyledons amygdaloid, radicle superior. — Distrib. 

 5 species, all either Burmese or Malayan. 



Wings of accrescent- calyx 2*5 to 3 in. long ... 1. P. insignis. 



Wings of accrescent-calyx 4*5 in. and upwards in 



lenglh. 



Leaflets glabrous benep^th, the midrib and 



nerves very slightly puberulous ... ... 2. P. Maingayi. 



Leafle'ts rusty-pubescent on the lower surface 3. P. puhescens. 



1. Parishia insignts. Hook. fil. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXIII, 170, 

 t. 26. A tall tree ; young branches stout, lenticellate, rnsty- puberulous. 

 Leaves 12 to 20 in. long, the rachis cylindric : leaflets 6 to 8 pairs, thinly 

 coriaceous, obliquely ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute or shortly 

 acuminate: the base broad, rounded or sub-cordate, unequal; upper 

 surface shining, glabrous or glabrescent, the lower glabrescent and 

 reticulate, or (var. pnhescens) shortly and softly pubescent ; main 

 nerves 8 to 12 pairs, spreading, curving : length 3 to 5 in., breadth I"2 

 to 2 in.; petiolule '1 to '2 in. Male panicles o.s ]ong as the leaves, 

 much branched, many-flowered, rusty-pubescent or tomentose. Floivers 

 •25 in. in diam., on pedicels longer than themselves. Calyx rusty- 

 pubescent; its lobes unequal, triangular. Petals oblique, broadly ovate, 

 sub-o-labious, reflexed at the apex, longer than the calyx. Stamens about 

 as long as the petals ; the anthers short, ovate, about one- third as long as 

 the filaments. Disc pubescent, 4-angled. Female flower not seen, 

 F'ruit sub-globular, '5 in. in diam., the persistent remains of the style 

 •15 in. long ; accrescent calyx-wings narrowly oblong, blunt, 2*5 to 3 



