322 Peronema. 



Schauer. DC, Prodr. XI, 626; Engl. u. Pranti, Nat. 

 Pfl. fam. IV, 3a, 178; Hook. f.. Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 599; 

 Jack, Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. IV, no. XIII, 41; Koorders 

 en Valeton, Bijdr. Booms. Java, no. 7, 213; King and 

 Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 4, 857; Miquel, 

 Fl. Ind. bat. II, 908. — Small trees; branchlets, inflores- 

 cences and petioles minutely grey-tomentose: leaves large, 

 opposite, imparipinnately composed; inflorescences terminal, 

 large, composed of cymes; bracts subulate; flowers small; 

 calyx 5-toothed, somewhat 2-lipped, unaltered in fruit; 

 corolla with short tube; limb oblique, 2-lipped, 5-lobed, 

 upper lip with 2 small, lower lip with 3 larger lobes, the 

 middle one larger; stamens 2, exserted, inserted in the 

 ventral and basal part of the corolla-tube; style slender, 

 with subulate stigma, sometimes bifid: ovary 4-ceiled, 

 cells 1-ovuled; fruit a 4-valvate capsule; placenta central, 

 winged, seeds pendulous, without albumen. 



Distribution: Malay Peninsula! and western part of 

 Archipelago! 



1. P. canescens Jack, Malay Misc. II, no. VII, 46, 

 (1822); Schauer, DC, Prodr. XI, 627; Hook f., Fl. Br. 

 Ind. IV. 599; Jack. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. IV, no. XIII, 

 41; Koorders en Valeton, Bijdr. Booms. Java no. 7,214; 

 iid., Atl. d. Baumart. II, 6, tab. 280 and 281; King and 

 Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 4. 857; Koorders, 

 Exk. fl. v. Java, III, 139; Miquel, Fl. Ind. bat. II, 909 

 andsuppl. I, 244 and 570. — P. heterophyllum Miq., 

 I.e. suppl. I, 570. — A small tree; branchlets, inflorescences 

 and petioles minutely and densely greyish-brownish-tomen- 

 tose; leaves opposite, imparipinnate, rhachis often winged; 

 leaflets sessile, opposite, the smaller ones near the base 

 of the leaf, lanceolate, etitire, acute at both ends, charta- 

 ceous, glabrous above, minutely fulvous-tomentose beneath, 

 pairs of nerves 20—30, 3— IS'/g by 1— 4V2 cM.; the 

 whole leaf reaching 25—30 by 10—15 cM.; petioles 3— 



