492 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3, 



collected by Mr. L. Wray in Perak. These have enabled Dr. Stapf, 

 of the Kew Herbarium, and myself to refer the plant to the genus 

 Swintonia, its nearest allies being S. floribunda and S. Schwenkii. In 

 Wray's field note on his specimens he writes " flower pale-greenish- 

 yellow : leaves shining, bright green above ; pale and bluish beneath." 



8. Parishia, Hook. fil. 



Tall trees with alternate unequally-pinnate leaves ; the leaflets 

 coriaceous, entire. Panicles large, nodding. Flowers dioecious. Male 

 Flower. Calyx cupular, 4-lobed ; the lobes ovate, valvate. Petals 4, 

 oblong, imbricate. Disc short, annular, obscurely 4-lobed. Stamens 

 4, inserted below the margin of the disc. Rudimentary ovary cylindiic. 

 Female Flower. Calyx 4-lobed, the lobes persistent and greatly en- 

 larged in fruit. Petals 4. Ovary sessile, ovoid, 1-celled ; style terminal, 

 unequally 3-fid, stigmas capitate ; ovule pendulous from near the apex 

 Of the cell. Fruit sub-globose, dry, pubescent, bearing the persistent 

 base of the style at its apex, the pericarp thin. Seed pendulous, its 

 testa membranous ; cotyledons amygdaloid, radicle superior.— Distrib. 

 5 species, all either Burmese or Malayan. 



Wings of accrescent- calyx 25 to 3 in. long . ... 1. P. insignis. 



Wings of accrescent-calyx 4"5 in. and upwards in 



length. 



Leaflets glabrous beneath, the midrib and 



nerves very slightly puberulous ... ... 2. P. Maingayi. 



Leaflets rusty-pubescent on the lower surface 3. P. pubescens. 



1. Parishia insignis, Hook. fil. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 170, 

 t. 26. A tall tree ; young branches stout, lenticellate, rusty-puberulous. 

 Leaves 12 to 20 in. long, the rachis cylindric : leaflets 6 to 8 pairs, thinly 

 coriaceous, obliquely ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute or shortly 

 acuminate; the base broad, rounded or sub-cordate, unequal; upper 

 surface shining, glabrous or glabrescent, the lower glabrescent and 

 reticulate, or (var. pubescens) shortly and softly pubescent ; main 

 nerves 8 to 12 pairs, spreading, curving : length 3 to 5 in., breadth 12 

 to 2 in. ; petiolule 1 to "2 in. Male panicles as long as the leaves, 

 much branched, many-flowered, rusty-pubescent or tomentose. Flowers 

 *25 in. in diam., on pedicels longer than themselves. Calyx rusty- 

 pubescent; its lobes unequal, triangular. Petals oblique, broadly ovate, 

 sub-glabrous, reflexed at the apex, longer than the calyx. Stamens about 

 as long as the petals ; the anthers short, ovate, about one-third as long as 

 the filaments. Disc pubescent, 4-angled. Female flower not seen. 

 Fruit sub-globular, *5 in. in diam., the persistent remains of the style 

 •15 in. long ; accrescent calyx-wings narrowly oblong, blunt, 2*5 to 3 



