452 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [JTo. 3. 



Wall. IT, 442: ed. 1832 I, 645. A tall tree: young parts mi- 

 nutely tawny, puberulous. Leaves 12 to 18 in. long, the rachises 

 slightly puberulous ; leaflets 6 to 12, opposite or alternate, oblong to 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, the base obliquely 

 cuneate, both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves 8 to 12 pairs, curving 

 upwards, puberulous or glabrous: length 2 - 5 to 8 in., breadth 1*35 to 

 2*75 in., petiolule '15 in. Panicles with few short branches, terminal 

 or axillary, puberulous. Floioers large, *3 in. in diam. Sepals 5, free, 

 unequal, broadly oblong or sub-rotund, minutely pubescent outside. 

 Petals 5, narrower than the sepals but longer. Stamens 5, shorter than 

 the petals, the anthers oblong. Disc small, puberulous. Ovary broadly 

 ovoid, compressed, grooved, pubescent; style short, reflexed; stigma small, 

 2-lobed. Fruit capsular, broadly reniform, compressed, 2-lobed, glabrous. 

 Seed semioval, the aril orange-coloured and covering the whole seed. 

 Hiernin Hook. fil. PL Br. Ind. I, 692 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 

 570: Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 287: Wall. Cat. 8078. Harpullia rupestris, 

 Bl. Rumphia, III, 175. M. fruticosa, Bl. 1. c. 179. H. fraxinifolia, 

 Bl. 1. c. 176. H. thanatophora, Bl. 1. c. 178. Streptostigma viridiflorum, 

 Thwaites in Hook. Kew Journ., YI, 298, t. 9. 



Perak: King's Collector, Nos. 1015, 7074 ; - Scortechini. Anda- 

 mans : King's Collector. 



19. Turpinta, Vent. 



Trees or shrubs with glabrous and shining leaves, and smooth terete 

 branches. Leaves opposite, stipulate, usually odd-pinnate; leaflets opposite, 

 stipellate, serrulate, sub-coriaceous. Panicles terminal and axillaiy ; floivers 

 small, regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-partite, imbricated. Petals 5, 

 imbricated. Stamens 5, inserted outside the lobed or crenulate raised 

 disc ; filaments flattened ; anthers short. Ovary sessile, 3-lobed and 

 -celled ; styles 3, combined or distinct ; stigmas sub-capitate ; ovules 2 to- 

 gether or more and then in two rows. Fruit sub-globose, indehiscent, 

 3-celled. Seeds angular; testa hard, shining; Jiilum large; albumen 

 fleshy ; aril . Embryo straight. — Distrtb. About ten species in sub- 

 tropical Asia and America. . 



Turpinia pomiferea, DC. Prod. II, 3. A tree 30 to 40 feet high, all 

 parts glabrous. Leaves stipulate, 8 to 15 in. long, mostly unequally 

 pinnate ; leaflets 5 to 10, thinly coriaceous, oblong or oblong-lanceolare. 

 shortly acuminate, the edges serrate, the base cuneate ; main nerves 

 5 or 6 pairs, remote, ascending ; length 2'5 to 8 in., breadth 1 to 3 in., 

 petiolules of the lateral leaflets '25 to "35 in., of the terminal one vary- 

 ing from 1 to 2 in.; stipules interpetiolar or triangular, cadiicuous. Pani- 

 cles spreading, shorter than the leaves; the branches diverging, brae- 



