166 Cr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



near the middle of the pod ; compressed, exalbuminous ; cotyledons 

 leafy, radicle short straight. Species 4, Malayan. 

 Leaflets green beneath ; panicles rnsty-pubescent ; petals 



exceeding sepals and stamens ; anthers short broad ; ovary 



subglobose, rusty-pubescent ... ... ... 1. K. malaccensis. 



Leaflets glaucescent beneath, much smaller ; panicles grey, 



pnberulous ; petals much shorter than sepals and stamens ; 



anthers long narrow ; ovary compressed, very nearly 



glabrous ... ... ... ... ... 2. K. parvifolia. 



1. Koompassia malaccensis Maingay ex Benth. in Hook. Icon. PI. 

 XII, 58. t. 1164. A tree 80-100 feet high, with stem 3-4 feet in 

 diameter ; branches closely rusty-pubescent at length glabrescent. 

 Leaves alternate odd-pinnate, 5-8 in. long, rachis rusty-pubescent ; 

 leaflets 7-9 alternate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, acuminate, apex obtuse 

 slightly emarginate, base rounded, 2-3 in. long, '8-1*25 in. wide, coria- 

 ceous, dark-green glabrous and shining above, rather paler, dull and 

 sparsely adpressed rusty-puberulous beneath ; lateral nerves 10-12 pairs, 

 faintly visible above, distinct beneath and connected by a fine reticulate 

 secondary venation ; petiolules rusty-pubescent 25 in. long. Panicles 

 terminal and extending into the axils of the uppermost leaves 5 in. 

 long, 3-4 in. across ; branches 2 in long, pedicels "2 in. long ; all parts 

 densely rusty-pubescent. Calyx-tuhe obsolete ; sepals 5 slightly 

 imbricate ovate-acute, *12 in. long, densely rusty externally. Petals 5, 

 oblong, obtuse, white, '15 in. long, slightly exceeding the sepals, two and 

 a half times as long as stamens. Stamens 5, filaments very short 

 glabrous ; anthers slightly incurved twice as long as broad, widely 

 triangular. Ovary subglobose, densely rusty-pubescent, 1-ovuled ; style 

 short. Pod oblong, compressed, 4-5 in. long, 1'25-1*5 in. wide, reticu- 

 lately wide-veined opposite the solitary seed. Seed 1'5 in. long, "65 in. 

 wide, cotyledons foliaceous ; cordately 5-nerved at base, nerves conspi- 

 cuous. Taubert in Engl. rTaturlich. Pflanzenfam. Ill, 3. 156. 



Perak ; Larut, Kunstler 7692 ! Thaipeng, Wray 2388 ! near Blangie, 

 Scortecldni 1712 ! Malacca ; Meiliman, Selandar, Snngei Udang, etc. ; 

 Maingay 557 {fide Bentham) ; 604! Berry 51 ! Hobnberg §80! Good- 

 enouyh 1416 ! Singapore ; Selitan, etc. ; Ridley 4567 ! 6403 ! Cavtlcy 

 {fide Taubert). Penang ; T. Bahang, Curtis 432 ! Bindings ; Lumot, 

 Curtis ! Distbib. Sumatra ( Hiver Rawas, Forbes /). 



This is the fine tree which the Malays know as Kumpass. Another species 

 from Borneo (K. Beccariana Taubert, — founded on Beccari n. 2690) is evidently 

 closely related ; there are no specimens of the species at Calcutta. The description 

 and drawing of the anthers in the original account of the genus are somewhat 

 inaccurate. 



2. Koompassia parvifolia Prain. A tree £0-100 feet high, branch- 

 lets glabrous or only puberulous at the tips. Leaved alternate odd- 



