16 NEW ANJD RAKE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



as Santiria Planch oni, Benn. Fl. Brit. Ind. I. 53G and Engler, 

 Moil Phan. IV. 154. Oanarium Planch oni, King, Mat. Mai. 



'n." 



Pen. p. 482. 



Planchon named it Icieopsis in Herb. Hook., but this 

 generic name was never published and Engler unfortunately 

 used it for certain American plants now reduced to Idea. In 

 the Pfianzenfamilien it is put as a section of Santiria under 

 the name Icieopsis, and Trigonochlamijs is also put as a sec- 

 tion of Santiria. 



The plant in fruit resembles Trigonochlamys Griffithti 

 except for the small calyx lobes but the flowers are small and 

 resemble those of a Santiria except that they have but three 

 stamens. 



The characters of the genus Icicaster may thus be given. 

 A tree with pinnate leaves of 7 to 13 leaflets, unisexual. Pani- 

 cles axillary, shorter than the leaves. Flowers small crowded 

 near the tips of the branches. Calyx campanulate deeply cleft 

 into 3 ovate triangular lobes, small. Petals 3, slightly larger, 

 deltoid. 'Stamens three, anthers ovate, filaments shorter, flat, 

 inserted on the edge of a large cupular fleshy disc. Ovary in 

 the female flowers small, ovate, three-lobed. Style terminal, 

 short. Stigma 3-lobed. Drupe ovoid globular, slightly gib- 

 bous, style persistent, slightly lateral. 



It appears to be not rare in the south of the Peninsula in 

 Sixgapore, Malacca and Perak as far north as Taiping. 

 The fruit is yellow and bead-like. 



MELIACEAE. 



Amoora malaccensis, n. sp. 



Tree, bark of branches wrinkled, young branches red 

 pubescent (when dry). Leaves 9 — 12 in. long, imparipinnate, 

 rhachis scurfy puberulous; leaflets 11 — 13, opposite, elliptic or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, base cuneate or rounded, slightly 

 inaequilateral, coriaceous, glabrous, smooth, slightly shining 

 above, red brown beneath when dry, nerves about 16 pairs, very 

 fine and inconspicuous, depressed above, faint beneath, 2.1 to 

 4.25 in. long, .75 — 1.8 in. wide, petiolules .1 — .2 in. long. Pani- 

 cles axillary G — 8 in. long with ascending branches 1 — 2 in. or 

 less long, scurfy, pubescent. Flowers male .05 in. long in 

 threes or fours at the ends of the branchlets, sessile. Calyx 

 lobes short, rounded base thick campanulate, pustular. Petals 

 ovate obtuse longer incurved. Stamen-tube nearly as long as 

 the petals, broadly oblong globose, wide open at the top, lobes 

 rounded, short, anthers G, not exserted. Ovary glabrous, ob- 

 long. Fruit globose, 2 in. through, densely minutely velvety 

 tomentose. pericarp very thick, woody. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



