1896.] Cr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 441 



0. Stamens 5 ; anthers broadly ovate, glabrous ; filaments pubescent and 

 thickened towards the base. Ovary sparsely pubescent, 2-lobed. Fruit 

 ovoid, glabrous, 1'5 to 2 in. long ; the pericarp thick, spongy inside. 

 Seed single with a short arillus. Radlk. lib. Sapind. Holl.-Ind. No. 82. 



Malacca : Main gay, No. 463. 



A species known only by Maingay's scanty and imperfect speci- 

 mens. 



2. Pometia pinnata, Forst. Char. Gen. 110. A tree 30 to 50 

 feet high ; young branches pubernlous or glabrescent. Leaves 12 to 36 

 in. long, equally pinnate, the vachises angled, the petioles swollen 

 at the base, glabrous or glabrescent ; leaflets 4 to 12 pairs, sub-opposite, 

 thinly coriaceous, oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, acute or shortly acu- 

 minate, the edges coarsely and remotely serrate, the base rounded 

 sub-cordate or cuneate ; the lower leaflets smaller than the upper: 

 the lowest very small, sub-rotund, and sometimes less than 1 in. long : 

 the upper varying in length from 4 to 12 in. and in brendth from 1*75 

 to 4 in. ; petiolules *15 in., stout : both surfaces glabrous or puberulous, 

 often pubescent on the midrib and nerves, the reticulations minute ; 

 main nerves numerous, parallel, prominent beneath. Panicles axillary 

 or terminal, spreading, puberulous, shorter than the leaves, their 

 branches spreading and often with auricled bracts at their bases. 

 Flowers numerous, pedicellate, "1 in. in diam., polygamous. Calyx 

 pubescent, deeply divided into 4 or 5 triangular teeth. Petals 4 or 5, 

 small, glabrous or slightly pubescent, without a basal scale. Disc 

 fleshy, lobed, glabrous. Stamens 5 or 6, the anthers glabrous, the 

 filaments subulate and puberulous. Ovary obcordate, . bilobed : style 

 longer than the ovary, bifid at the apex. Fruit usually reduced to 

 a single lobe, ellipsoid, blunt, glabrous, 1-seeded, variable in size ; 

 length from '75 to 1'25 in. ; diam. from *5 to '$ in. P. tomentosa, Kurz 

 Andaman Report, ed. 2, p. 34 ; For. Flora Burma, I, 295 ; Hiern in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 691. Irina glabra, Blume Bijdr. 230 ; Rum- 

 phia, III, 1L3; Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 284; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, 

 558, Irina diplocardia, Blume Rumphia, III, 115. Pometia eximia, 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 157. Fccremanthus eximius, Thwaites in Hook. Kew 

 Journ. VII, 272, t. 9. Nephelium eximium, Thwaites Enum. 57. — 

 Rumph. Herb. Amboin. Ill, 31, t. 17. 



Malacca : Maingay, No. 459. Perak : very common ; King's Col- 

 lector. — Distrib. Ceylon. 



3. Pometia gracilis, King n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet high ; the 

 branches slender, drooping, the j'oungest cinereous-puberulous, minutely 

 lenticellate. Leaves 5 to 8 in. long, their rachises minutely rusty- 

 pubescent ; leaflets 5 to 8, opposite, membranous, the upper ones the 



