PLANTS OF PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. 121 



Stem : sub-arboreous ; branches unarmed, nodding. 

 Leaves : scattered, petioled ovate trapezoid (in young trees three 

 lobed, acuminate, sub-peltate, repand above smooth, below 

 hoary ; marked at the base with two very small glands. Peti- 

 oles slender, downy, spreading, drooping at the point ; a little 

 shorter than the leaves. Flowers small male and female on 

 different trees. Panicles : terminal, diffuse ; composed of spikes, 

 scattered, interrupted. In the Male flow T ers : Calyx perianth 

 three leaved ; leaflets obovate. Corolla none. Stam : Filaments 

 numerous, capillary, erect, the length of the calyx ; beneath 

 irregularly united into bundles; Anthers roundish, two lobed. 

 In the Female flowers Calyx perianth five parted, leaflets lan- 

 ceolate, very small, persistent. Corolla none. Pist : Germ 

 irregular, muricated ; Style hardly any ; Stigmas three lacerat- 

 ed. Capsule tricoccous, muricated, three celled; two valved. 

 Seeds solitary, roundish. 



POLYGAMIA— MONOECIA. 



MUSA, Schreb. 1653. 



Musa Paradisiaca, Grnel. 2, 567, M. sapientum. Ibid. 



The plantain or Banana. Pisang, Mai. This being a 

 fruit highly esteemed, and in universal use the Malays enumer- 

 ate an endless variety, each distinguished by a name, taken 

 from the shape, colour, taste or some other quality of the fruit. 



Teeminalia, Schreb. 1583. 

 Tcrminalia catappa, Gmel, 2, 701. A few trees cultivated. 



Mimosa. 



1. Mimosa farnesiana. Sown and planted for hedges. 

 2.. Mimosa peduncidata, H. (Parhia speciosa Hassk.). 



Arboreous, unarmed, leaves bipinnate, pinnae and leaflets 

 many pair ; peduncles terminal, solitary, very long. Pittay, 

 Malay. M. biglobosa ? Jacq. Amer. t. 179, f. 87. 



R. A. Soc, No. 53. 1909- 



