1896.] G. King — MaienaU for a Flora of the Midatjaji Peninstda. 449 
each with one large soate connate to its margins. Stamois 8, tbo 
filanicats glabrons. Ovayy 2-celled, witli a solitary ovule in each cell. 
Fruit capsular, coriaceoas, obovute, compressed, 2-celIed, reddisli-browu 
wlicti i-ipe, pericarp fle»liy^ tUe cudocarp briglit Bcnrlet. Seed black • 
Vfith ft mucilaginoas coating and a basilar pink tlesby cupular arillue, — 
D[:sTRiii. 6 species from the Nicobars, Smraatra, Philippiuoa and New 
Guinea. 
Lepidopetalum Jackiandm, Radlk. in Sitzb. Bayer. Acad* IX, 623, 
A small tree j J'oung brancbes puberuloua, soon becoming gtabrona* 
Lt'uveiS 6 to 12 in. 'long; hajiets 2 to 10, aub-aUei-nate, oblong' or ovata- 
oblong, gub-acuminate, tbo base rounded or cuneate, both surfacea quite 
glabrous and finely reticulate ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, bold beneath, 
spreading : length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1'15 to 2 in., petiolales '15 in. 
Bacenies nnder 2 in. long. FLowcr-huda oval^ pointed j sepals lanceolate, 
FelaU less than a third of the sizo of the sopals and alternate with 
them. Stametis short, inserted at the base of the ovavy, filaments 
glabrous; anthers hirsute, oblong. Oajisttfe not lobe d, coriaceous, com - 
pleased, obovate, glabrous outaide, liairy inside, minutely apienlate, 
1-25 in. long and about '8 in. broad, pedicel "25 in. long. Seed solitary, 
bhick ; arillus pale pink or white, viscouts, Oiqmnia Jaekiana^ Hiei'n in 
Hook, fil, Fl. Br. Ind. I, 678. Coniiarus t Jackianm, Wall. Cat. 8552, 
Prdiu in Pi^oceed. As. Soc. Beng. 1891, p. 167. 
Nieobar Islands ; Jack, Knrz, Pmta, Bafcti Malv, Prain. 
•Dr. Praiu has given in the Jmuual above quoted an excellent ac- 
count ffora the living plant of thia previonaly little known species^ and 
from hiB description mine is largely taken, 
16* Pahanephelium, Miqael, 
Trees with alternate exstipulate unequally pinnate leaves : Imjkis 
opposite or snb-opposite. Flowers panicled, regular, liermupiirodite (or 
polygamous ?) 4-6-nierous. Cahjx deeply lobeil, the lobes slightly im- 
bricate, Fetah usually 5, snmU, each bearing a single scutiform scale 
larger than itself ( the two forming a pouch). Disc deeply excavated, 
entire. Staviens 6 to 10, the filaments subulate, glabrous ; the anthers 
short, 2-celled, basifixed. Ovaiij 3-celIed, obtusely 3-aLgled. Fruit a 
ligneous 3-valved capsule, externally tubercled, lobtilate or sptuose, 
imperfectly 3-eelled, 1- to S-seeded, Seed largo, angled, partly covered 
by a ^hin arillus. Cotyledons 0eshy, oily, conduplicate.^ — BiSTttiB, 
Malaya and Burma, 3 or 4 species. 
I/eaflots entire, fruit lobulate ... 1, P. uilidnm. 
Leaflets serrato, fruit echinatc ... 2. P.marrojdnjUttm. 
lliern's gonus Sf^ifphopetalum (1875} is exactly the same a&' iVni- 
