1896.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 419 



scanty, "25 in. in diam. Miq. in Aim. Mus. Lugd. Bafc. I, 98 : Kurz in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. 44, pt. 2, pp. 178, 180 ; Flora Burma I, 28 J ; 

 C. B. Clarke in Trimen's Journ. Bot. for 1881, 163. L. hirta, Hornein. 

 Hort. Hafn. I, 237 : lloxb. Fl. Iud. ed. Carey II, 469 : ed. 1832 II, 

 656; Blume Bijdr. 197 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, p. 612 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 6822 ; Dene in Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Ill, 446 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 I, pt. 2, p. 612 ; Lawsou in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 668. L. hirsnta, 

 Bl. Bijdr. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt, 2, p. 612. 



Perak : Scortechini, King's Collector, No. 4387. Quedali : King's 

 Collector, No. 1725. Andaman Islands : Kurz, King's Collector. — 

 Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 



This species is, as Mr. C. B. Clarke has well pointed out, at once 

 recognisable by the curious glandular discs on the under surface of the 

 leaf — a character found in no other species of the genus. 



Order XXXIV. Sapindace^. 



Trees, slirubs, or rarely climbing herbs. Leaves alternate, rarely 

 opposite, exstipulate or occasionally stipulate, pinnate, palmate-trifolio- 

 late or simple ; leaflets opposite or alternate, entire or dentate, rarely 

 lobed. Floivtrs mostly polygamo-dioacious and small, usually either 

 irregular or unsymmetrical. Calyx mostly 4-5-lobed, or with 4-5 sepals, 

 sepals or lobes often unequal, imbricate or valvate in the bud. Pdtals free, 

 equal or unequal, usually 4-5 or 0, often bearded or squamate at the base 

 within. Disc annular or unilateral, rarely (in d 1 flowers) deficient. 

 Stamens 5-10, inserted inside the disc at the base of the ovary or out- 

 side or on the disc, sometimes unilateral ; anthers 2-celled, basifixed or 

 versatile ; filaments often pubescent, almost always free. Ovary centric 

 or excentric, entire or lobed, or sometimes divided nearly to the base, 

 1-3-celled. Style simple or divided, usually terminal ; stigma usually 

 simple. Ovules usually 1 rarely 2 or more in each cell, affixed 

 to the axis of the ovary, ascending. Fruit capsular or indehiscent, 

 entire or lobed, sometimes winged. Seeds globose or compressed, arillate 

 or naked, exalbuminous, rarely albumiuous. Embryo usually thick, 

 sometimes plicate or spirally convolute. — Distrib. About 550 to 800 

 species scattered over the whole world. 



