1896.] G. King — Materiahfor a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 4"3S 
1. jr. glahrum. 
2, 
3. 
N. Longana. 
N. mbeBceiis, 
lobed, nsnally capillar, sub-valvato in bnd. Petals small, villons, ravply 
with 2 scales, often absent. Stamem 6 to 8, inserted within the flefiliy 
glabmus or pubescent disc ; Jiltiment^ usnftlly pubescent. Ovartj pubea- 
ceufc, often veiTucose or setose, 1-2- or rarely 3- lobed, the lobes with 1 
cell and 1 ovule. Fmti 1- rarely 2-coccous, indehiscent, oblong or glo- 
bose, echinate, tubereled or smooth. Seed ellipsoid or globose, covered 
by a p^lpy arillns ; cotyledons fleshy, not folded. — Distrib. Abont 
twenty spnecies chiefly Malayan. 
BEisidea the ten epeciea described belowj there are in the Culcutta Berbariitm 
BpeoimonB of sis other species wJiich I am Biiablo to identify with any pnbliglieti 
apweiea but whioh, for want oitbor of flowcra or of frnit, I am unable to describe. 
Leaflets quite glabrous on both surfaces. 
Pruit rugttlose bat not at all spiny, » 
Leaflets elliptic, fruit gibbons at the base 
Leaflets oblong or ovate-lanceolate, fruit 
not gibbous at the base 
Frait with short glabrous spines 
^ Frait with long sub-compressed puberulous 
flexnose stout setae 
Leaflets glabrous on the upper surface, sub- 
glauoous and minutely puberulous on the lower 
surface, never roaty ; fruit covered with stoat 
woody spines. 
Petals 5... 
Petals 0. 
Leaflets with 9 to 13 pairs of main nerves 
Leaflets with 16 to 24 pairs of main nerves 
Leaflets glabrons on the upper surface, the 
lower surface more or less ruflty-puberaloas or 
pubescent. 
Petals 0 ; fruit densely covered with flexaose 
compressed soft spines 
Petals d. 
Leaflets oblong, rarely obovate-oblong ; 
fruit densely covered with flexaose com- 
pressed soft spiue s 
Leaflets elliptic, fruit slightly tubercled or 
al most smooth 
Donbtfnl species 
L Nephblium glabrum, Noronha in Batav. Genootsch. Nerh. Y, 
80. A tree 60 to 80 feet high ; young branches glabrous. Leaves 7 to 
11 in. long: leaflets 4 to 6, coriaceous, elliptic, acute or very shortly and 
4, N» lappaceitm. 
5. cosiatum. 
6. 
7. 
N. chryseurn. 
N, hamidattiin. 
8, ophiodeg. 
9, N. eriopetalum. 
10. 
Jl. 
N~ maiaiense. 
