1896.] Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 449 



each -with one large scale connate to its margins. Stamens 8, the 

 filaments glabrous. Ovary 2-celled, with a solitary ovule in each cell. 

 Fruit capsular, coriaceous, obovate, compressed, 2-celled, reddish-brown 

 when ripe, pericarp fleshy, the endocarp bright scarlet. Seed black 

 with -a mucilaginous coating and a basilar pink fleshy cupular arillus. — 

 Distrib. 6 species from the' Nicobars, Sumatra, Philippines and New 

 Ghiinea. 



Lepidopetalum Jackianum, Radlk. in Sitzb. Bayer. Acad. IX, 623. 

 A small tree : young branches puberulous, soon becoming glabrous. 

 Leaves 6 to 12 in. long; leaflets 2 to 10, sub-alternate, oblong or ovate- 

 oblong, sub-acuminate, the base rounded or cuneate, both surfaces quite 

 glabrous and finely reticulate ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, bold beneath, 

 spreading : length 3 to 5 in., breadth P15 to 2 in., petiolules '15 in. 

 Racemes under 2 in. long. Flower-buds oval, pointed ; sepals lanceolate. 

 Petals less than a third of the size of the sepals and alternate with 

 them. Stamens short, inserted at the base of the ovary, filaments 

 glabrous ; anthers hirsute, oblong. Capsule not lobed, coriaceous, com- 

 pressed, obovate, glabrous outside, hairy inside, minutely apiculate, 

 l - 25 in. long and about '8 in. broad, pedicel # 25 in. long. Seed solitary, 

 black ; arillus pale pink or white, viscous. Gupania Jackiana, Hiern in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 678. Connarus ? Jachianus, Wall. Cat. 8552. 

 Prain in Proceed. As. Soc. Beng. 1891, p. 167. 



Nicobar Islands ; Jack, Kurz, Prain. Batti Malv, Prain. 



Dr. Prain has given in the Journal above quoted an excellent ac- 

 couut from the living plant of this previously little known species, and 

 from his description mine is largely taken. 



16. Paranephelium, Miquel. 



Trees with alternate exstipulate unequally pinnate leaves : leaflets 

 opposite or sub-opposite. Flowers panicled, regular, hermaphrodite (or 

 polygamous ?) 4-6-merous. Calyx deeply lobed, the lobes slightly im- 

 bricate. Petals usually 5, small, each bearing a single scutiform scale 

 larger than itself (the two forming a pouch). Pise deeply excavated, 

 entire. Stamens 6 to 10, the filaments subulate, glabrous ; the anthers 

 short, 2-celled, basifixed. Ovary 3-celled, obtusely 3-angled. Fruit a 

 ligneous 3-valved capsule, externally tubercled, lobulate or spinose, 

 imperfectly 3-celled, 1- to 3-seeded. Seed large, angled, pai'tly covered 

 by a thin arillus. Cotyledons fleshy, oily, conduplicate. — Distrib. 

 Malaya and Burma, 3 or 4 species. 



Leaflets entire, fruit lobulate ... ... 1. P. nitidum. 



Leaflets serrate, fruit echinate ... ... 2. P.macropJiyllani. 



Hiern's genus Soyphopetalum (1875) is exactly the same as Para- 



