1896.] G. Kiug—Matencds for a Flora of tJw Malayan Penimula. r,13 



DiUMYOARPUS RACEMO«us, Hook. fil. in J3enth. and Il.,ok. HI. Gen. 

 Plantar. 1,421. A large tree: young branches ratl.oi- slender, some* 

 what gh.ucous, the bark afterwards pale and striate. Lmves coriaceous, 

 oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the ed-es con-' 

 spicuously undulate, the base cuneate ; upper surfa-.e glab.ou.s, "shining, 

 the lower dull often glaucous or glaucescent, the reticulation.s distinct 

 in both; main nerves 14 to 18 pairs, spreading, often irregular, pro- 

 minent beneath: length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1-2 to 2-25 in.; petiole 

 •35 to -5 in., channelled. Flowers in racemes or panicles, terminal or in 

 the uppermost axils, shorter than the leaves, pubernlous, slender, tlie 

 panicles branched from the base ; male flowers sessile, fasciculate, the 

 females shortly pedicelled, both about '1 in. in diam. Anthers shortly 

 ovate, filaments thick. Disc crenate, fleshy. Drupe broader than long, 

 red when ripe, 1 in. or more broad, and about -75 in. long. Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind I, 36 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma I, 3l4 ; Engler in DC. 

 Mon. Phan. IV, 472. Holigarna racemosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 82 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 1006. 



Tiie Andaman Islands.— Distrib. Burma, the Assam Range, and 

 the lower slopes of the Fastern Himalaya. 



17. Dbacontomelum, Blume. 



Ti-ees. Leaves alternate, unequally-pinnate ; leaflets opposite or alter- 

 nate, quite entire. Panicles axilhiry and sub-terminal. Flowers herm- 

 aphrodite. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, sub-erect, sub-valvate. Disc 

 large, cup-shaped, crenulate. Stamens 10, inserted at the base of the disc. 

 Ocary sessile, 5-celled ; styhs 5, thick, erect, connate by their obtuse 

 stigmatiferous tips ; ovules solitary and pendulous iu the cells. Drupe 

 globose, fleshy, tubercled above the middle by the style-bases ; stone 

 hard, depressed, 2-5-celled ; cells diverging, opening by canals through 

 the top of the stone. Seeds compressed, pendulous, testa membranous ; 

 cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle short, superior, centrifugal. — Distrib. 

 5 species natives of tropical Asia and the Pacific. 



Dracontomelum mangiferum, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 231, 

 fig. 42. A tree 80 to 100 feet high ; young branches stout, densely 

 covered with minute deciduous tawny-tomentum. Leaves 12 to 20 iu. 

 long, their rachises minutely puberulous or glabrous, the petiole slender 

 and but little thickened at the base ; leaflets 5 to 8 pairs, alternate, 

 rarely sub-opposite, thinly coriaceous, the upper ones elliptic-oblong, the 

 lower ovate-oblong and shorter, all shortly and abruptly acuminate, 

 unequal-sided with rounded oblique bases : both surfaces minutely 

 reticulate when dry, the upper quite glabrous, the lower also glabrous 

 but the midrib often puberulous and with small tufts of hair in the nerve 



