1896.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malatjan Peninsula. 441 
0. Sfament 5 ; anthers broadly ovivte, glabrous ; filaments pubescent and 
thickened towards the biise. Ovary sparsely pubescent, 2-lobcd. Fruit 
ovoid, glabroas, 1'5 to 2 in. long ; the pericarp thick, spongy iueide. 
Seed flingle with a atiorfc aril 1 us. Radlk, iib, Sapind, HoU.-Ind* No, 82, 
Malacca i Maingay, No. 463. 
A species known only by Maingay's scanty and imperfect »peci- 
raena. 
2, PoMEm PiNNATA, Forst. Char. Gen. 110. A tree 30 to 50 
feet high; young branches puberiiloua or glabrescenfc. Leaver 12 to 3tJ 
in, long', equally pinnate, the rachises angled, the potiolea swollen 
at the base, glabroua or glabre scent ; leaflets 4 to 12 pairs, sub- opposite, 
thinly cotiaceons, oblong or oblanceolute-oblong, acute or shortly aca- 
minate, the edges coarsely and remotely sen-afe, the base rounded 
sub-cordate or cnneate ; the lower leaflets smaller than the upper: 
the lowest very small, sub-rotund, and sometimes less tlian 1 in. long : 
the upper vaiying in length from 4 to 12 in. and in brendth from 1'75 
to 4 in. ; petioluJea *I5 in., etout ■ both surfaces glabroas or puberulous, 
often pubescent on the midrib and nerves, the reticulations minnto ; 
main nerves numerous, parallel, prominent beneath. Panicles axiljaiy 
or terminal, -spreading, paberulous, shorter tlmn the leaves, their 
bmnches spreading and often with auricled bmcts at their bases. 
Flowers numei"ons, pedicellate, '1 in, in diam., polygamous, Oalyx 
pnbescent, deeply divided into 4 or 6 triangnlar teeth. Petals 4 or 5, 
small, glabrous or slightly pubescent, withont a basal scale. Dim 
fleshy, lohed, glabrous. Stamens 6 or 6, the anthers glabrous, the 
filaments subulate and puberuloas. Ovary obcordate, bilobed : style 
longer tlian the ovary, bilid at the apex. Fruit usaalty redaced to 
a single lobe, ellipsoid, blunt, glabrous, 1-seeded, variable in size ; 
length from "75 to 1*25 in. ; diam. from '5 to '8 in. P, tomentma, Kurz 
Andaman Report, ed. 2, p. 3i ; For. Flora Burma, I, 295 ; Hiei-n in 
Hook, fil, Fl. Br. Ind. I, 691. Irina glabra, Binme Bijdr. 230 ; Rnm- 
phia, ni, U3; Haask. PL Jav. Rar. 284; Miq. Fl Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, 
S.'iB. Irina diplocardia^ Blome Rnmpbia, III, 115. Fnmetia earwntrt, 
Beddt. Fl. Syly. t. 157. Eccremanthus eximittSj Thwaites in Hook. Kew 
Joom. VII, 272, t. 9, Nephelittm. eximium^ Thwaites Ennni. 57.^ — 
Eiimph. Herb- Araboin. Ill, 31, t. 17. 
MtUscca ? Maingay, No. 459. Perak : very common ; King's Col- 
lector.— DrsTRiB. Ceylon. 
3. PoMETJA GRACILIS, King n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet high ; the 
branches slender, di-ooping, the youngest cinereous-puberulous, minutely 
lenticellate. Leaves 5 to 8 in. long, theii' racfaises minutely msty- 
pttbescent j leaflets 5 to 8, opposite^ membranous, the upper ones the 
