1893.] Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 227 



Stamens 5 ; disc 5-lobed ; flowers in long 

 much-branched panicles ; leaves glab- 

 rous ... ... ... 4. Fury coma. 



Ovary not lobed ; fruit not separating into 



cocci; leaves simple ... ... 5. Irvingia* 



1. HARRISONIA, Brown. 



Glabrous spiny shrubs. Leaves unequally pinnate or 1-foliolate. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, in bracteate cymes. Calyx small, 4-5-fid. Petals 

 4-5, longer than calyx. Disc hemispherical. Stamens 8-10, dilated at 

 the base. Ovary globose or 4-5-lobed, 4-5-celled ; styles connate or 

 distinct at the base ; ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit a small globose 

 berry. Seed solitary, sparingly albuminous. — Distrib. Tropics of 

 Old "World and of Australia. Species 3-4. 



1. Harrisonia Brown ii, A. Juss. in Mem. Mus. Par. XII, 517, 540, t. 

 28. A shrub ; young branches slender, glabrous, lenticellate, often armed 

 "with sharp conical piickles usually in pairs. Leaflets 3, ovate to 

 rhomboid, acuminate, coarsely serrate ; the terminal one the largest, 

 petiolulate, and much narrowed at the base ; the two lateral sessile and 

 slightly narrowed ; length from "6 to 1 in. Flowers 1 to 3, when ex- 

 panded '3 in. long, tetramerous, from small axillary tubercles on slender 

 pedicels from '5 to *75 in. long, buds globose. Petals lanceolate, 

 reflexed. Stamens 8, erect, as long as the petals ; filaments with dilated 

 concave hairy bases, anthers ovate. Ovary deeply 4-lobed, 4-celled, 

 glabrous. Fruit pisiform, depressed, 3-2- or even 1-celled by abortion, 

 each cell one-seeded ; pericarp coriaceous, glabrous. Planch, in Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. Bot. V. 569; Benth. Fl. Austral. I, 376. 



S. Andaman: Kurz, King's collectors. Distrib. — Timor., N". Austra- 

 lia. Philippines. 



2. Picrasma, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs with bitter properties. Leaves unequally pinnate. 

 Flowers small, declinous or polygamous, in axillary panicles. Calyx 

 very small, 4-5 toothed. Petals 4-5, valvate, very often increasing after 

 flowering. Disc thick, entire. Stamens 4-5, not scaly, hairy. Ovary 

 3-5-partite, free ; style distinct at the base and apex, but united in the 

 middle, stigmas simple ; ovules erect, solitary. Fruit of 1-3 fleshy or 

 coriaceous drupes. Seed erect, albuminous. — Distrib. India, Malay 

 Archipelago, China, Japan, West Indies, Brazil. Species about 4. 



1, Picrasma javanica, Blume, Bijdr, 248. A tree 30 to 60 feet high ; 

 young branches glabrous, dark-coloured, rather slender. Leaflets 3 to 7, 

 membranous, elliptic-oblong, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic, more or less 



