1806.] 0. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 5lJi 
Dkimycabpus lUCKMoaUs, Hook, fil, ill Bentli. and Hook. fil. Gen. 
Pliiutar. 1,421, A Im-ge tcee : yoivtig branches railier al^ader, aotue- 
whut gluucous, tlie bark afterwards pale and striate. L/^aves ooriaoeouB, 
obknceolate or oblong-lanceolate, elmrfclj acnminate, the edges con* 
epicuously undulate, the base caneate ; upper sorfa^e glabi-ous, shiuitigf 
the lower doll often glaucous or glaaeesceiit, the reticulations distinct 
in both; main nerves 14 to 18 pairs, spreading, often in-egular, pro- 
mtueut btineath : length 4 to 6 in,, breadth 1*2 to 2'2b in.; petiole 
'35 to "5 in.» channelled. Fhwers in racemes or panicles, terminal or in 
the nppormoHt . axils, shorter than the leaves, pnberulous, slendei-, tSie 
jiatiiides bi-anched from the base ; male flowers sessile, fasciculate^ the 
females shortly podieeiled, both about *1 in, in diam. Anthers shortly 
ovate, filamentu thick. Disc crenate, fleshy. Drupe broader than Ion if, 
red when ripe, 1 in. or more bi-oatl, and about '75 in. long* Hook. fil. 
Fl. Br. Ind I, 36; Kni'z For. Flora Burma 1, .3U ; Engler in DC, 
Moil. Phan. IV, 472. -HoHgama racemosa, Roxb, Fh Ind. II, 82 ; Wail. 
Cat. J 006. 
Tbo Andaman Islands. — DisxHfB. Barma, the Assam Ranges and 
the lower elopes of the Eastern Himalaya. 
}7. DracontosiehjMj Blumo, 
Trees. Leaves alternate, unequally-pinnate ; ^ea/!e<j? opposite or alter* 
iiat«, quile entire. Panicles axilhiry and sub-terminal. Flowers herm- 
aphrodite. Sepals 5» imbricate- Petah 5, Bub-erect, sub-valvate. Disc 
Invy^^ eup-sbfiped, crenulate, Staineits tO^ inset ted at the baiie of the disc. 
Otfartf sessile, 5-cellcd ; siylrs 6, thick, erect, connate by their obtas© 
sti^matiferoiis tips; yi'm/eif solitary and pendulous iu the cells. Drupe 
globose, fleshy, tubercled above the middle by the style- bases ; stone 
liard, depressed, 2-6-ceUed ; cells diverging, opening by canals thi-ough 
the top of t)ie stone. Seeds com pressed, pendmlous, testa membranous ; 
coltiledons piano-con ?e3c ; radicle ehort, superior, centrifugal, — DiSTRiB, 
6 species natives of tropical Asia and tlie Pacific. 
Dracoktomelum JtApfGtFJiRUAi, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I,, 231, 
fig, 42. A tree 80 to 100 feet high ; young branches stout, densely 
covered with minute deciduous tawny-tomentum. Leaves 12 to 20 iu. 
long, their racbiBes minutely pubemlons or glabrous, the petiole slender 
and but little thickened at the base ; leajiets 5 to 8 pail's, alternate, 
i-arely sub-opposite, thinly coriaceous, the upper ones elliptic-oblong, the 
lower ovate-oblong and shorter, all shortly and abruptly acuminate, 
nnequal-sided with rounded oblique bases : both sarfaoes minutely 
reticulate when dry, the upper quite glabrous, the lower also glabrous 
but the midiub often puberulous and with small tufts of hair in the nerve 
