1896.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 425 



branous ; em b ryo straight ; cotyledons thick.— Disteib. Species 4, three 

 tropical Asiatic arid one African. 



Erioglossum edule, Blume Bijdi\ 229. A large shrub or tree ; 

 young shoots petioles and rachises of leaves and inflorescence more or 

 less rusty-pubescent. Leaves 8 to 20 in. long ; leaflets 4 to 13, oblong- 

 lanceolate to elliptic, acute or acuminate, slightly oblique especially at 

 the cuneate base, upper surface sparsely puberulous to glabrescent, the 

 midrib tomentose ; the lower softly tomentose to glaberulous and usually 

 dark-coloured; main nerves 6 to 10 pairs, length 2'5 to 7 in., breadth 

 "75 to 2 # 25 in. Panicles sometimes longer than the leaves. Flowers on 

 short pedicels, clustered, sub-globular, '1 to "15 in. in diam. Fruit glab- 

 rous, the lobes oblong, *4 iu. long. Benth. Fl. Austral. I, 454 ; Hiern 

 in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 672. F. rubiginosum, Brand. For. Fl. 108. 

 Pancovia rubiginosa, Baill. Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 296. Moulinsia 

 cupanioides, Cambess. in Mem. Mus. Par. XVIII. 27, 40, t. 2. Sapindus 

 rubiginosa, Boxb. Cor. PI. I, 44, t. 62 ; Fl. Ind. II, 282 ; W. and A. 

 Prodr. I, 112; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 29 ; Wall. Cat. 8041 ; Griff. STotul. 

 IT, 548 ; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 14 ; Wall. Cat. 8041D. 

 8. fraxinifolius, DC. Prodr. I, 608. M. rubiginosa, G. Don. Gen. Syst. 

 I, 667. 8. longifolius, Wall. Cat. 8046. 



In all the Provinces : rather common. 



5. Aphania, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs with pinnate (usually equally) exstipulate rarely 

 with simple leaves ; leaflets 1 to 6 pairs. Flowers in panicles or 

 racemes. Sepals 4 or 5, widely imbricate. Petals 4 to 6, small, with 

 infolded basal auricles or with a basal scale. Disc regular, slightly 

 lobed. Stamens 5, rarely 3. Fruit deeply divided into 2 (rarely into 3) 

 ellipsoid or sub-3-gonous divergent lobes united only at the base ; the 

 endocarp thin cartilaginous or crustaceous. — Distrib. about 12 species, 

 tropical Asiatic and African, one in New Guinea. 

 Leaves pinnate. 



Inflorescence racemose ... ... 1. A. paucijuga. 



Inflorescence paniculate ... ... 2. A. montana. 



Leaves simple ... ... ... 3. A. Danura. 



1. Aphania paucijuga, Radlk. in Sitzb. Bayer. Akad. Math. Phys. 

 IX, (1878), 239. A tree 60 feet high ; young branches cinereous- 

 puberulous or glabrous. Leaves 5 to 8 in. long, their rachises with 3 

 faint ridges on the upper surface : leaflets 2 to 4, opposite, oblong- 

 lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, bluntly acuminate, much narrowed at 

 the base ; both surfaces quite glabrous, the upper shining, the lower 

 paler and dull ; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, spreading, not conspicuous •. 



