Aglaia.] xxxvii. meliace^. (W. P. Hiern.) 55? 



shortly pedicellate arranged in ample many-flowered pyramidal panicles 

 shorter than the leaves, fruits in short panicles ellipsoidaL 



PENAua? top of the hill, Maingay. (? Sincapore, Lohh.) ■ 



A tree of 8 ft. with slender stem. Leaves 3 ft. or more ; leaflets glaucesoent above, 

 6-11 by 3-4 in. ; petiolule J-J in. Inflorescence 6-12 in. long. Fruit \ in. long. 



Specimens from Sincapore, collected by Lobb, with ovate-oblong leaves and short 

 dense young panicles, probably belongs to this species. — Maingay's specimens are 

 marked as "from top of hill" simply, Penang being probably intended. 



12. A. minutiflora, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. i. 44, t. 193 ; pubescence 

 ferruginous- or rufous-stellate, leaflets 7-15 opposite or subopposite narrowly 

 elliptic or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, base subcordate rounded or sub- 

 cuneate, panicles divaricately branched many-flowered, flowers shortly 

 pedicelled, fruit subglobose 1-2-seeded. A. polyantha, Bedd. I.e. Euphora 

 exstipulatis, Gtriff. Notul. iv. 547. 



A handsome slender tree of 25 or 40 ft. with hard wood. Leaves 6-24 in. or more ; 

 leaflets 2-7 by §-2 J in., stellate-hairy beneath, glabrescent above except midrib. Pa- 

 wdet half to aU the length of the leaves. Fruit §-1 by ^- J in. 



There are two forms, possibly distinct species. 



a. travaTicorica ; leaflets usually subcordate, flowers }^ in. thict, corolla subglabres- 

 cent. — Courtallum, Wight; Travancor, Western Ghats, alt. 2-3500 ft., Beddome. 



|8. Cfriffithii; leaflets subcuneate or rounded at the base sometimes with pellucid dots, 

 flowers minute, " cotyledons amygdaloid superposed, radicle imbedded between the 

 cotyledons its apex perpendicular to the ventral face of the seed its opposite pole deli- 

 cately pilose" (Maingay mss.). — Tenasserim and Malacca, Oriffith, Maingay. 



** Flowers clustered in small spikes. 



13. A. coTAsLtSL, Riem ; pubescence rufous-stellate, leaflets subsessile 

 7 elliptic opposite finely acuminate, base more or less cordate, flowers 

 small sessile in little spike-like clusters arranged on a pyramidal panicle 

 nearly equalling or shorter than the leaves. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



Leaves 12-18 in. ; leaflets 4-8 by 2-3^ in. Panicles 5-10 in. long or more. 



FoKM 1. Calyx glabrous. 



FoEM 2. Calyx hirsute. 



14. A. palembanlca, Miq. Fl: Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 507 ; Ann. Mvs. 

 Liigd.-Bat. iv, 52; pubescence rufous-stellate, leaflets 11-13 opposite or 

 subopposite elliptic acuminate somewhat cuneate at the base shortly petio- 

 lulate, flowers small sessile in little spike-like clusters arranged on a 

 pyramidal panicle rather shorter than the leaves, fruit depresso-globose. 

 A. Sippannas, Miq. I.e. 506. A. tomentosa, Teysm. & Binn. in Nat. 

 Tijdsclir. Ned. Ind. xxvii. 43. 



Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. — Distrib. Sumatra and S. Borneo. 

 Leaves 6-12 in. ; leaflets 2-4 by f-lj in., minutely pellucid-punctate {Maingay) ; 

 petiolule J-J in. Panicles 44-9 in. long. 



10. XiAMSIVItX, Bumph. 



Trees, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves odd-pinnate with quite entire 

 alternate or opposite shortly petiolulate leaflets. Flowers polygamo- 

 dioecious, 5-merous, axillary, male usually paniculate, the female spicate- 

 racemose. Sepals rounded, imbricated. Petals rounded, conmvent, imbn- 



