1898.] G. King — Matm'ials for a Flora of the Malayan Feninaula. 45 
Clarke in Hook, fih Flor. Br. Tnd. II, 723. Panax armahm, WfiU. 
Cat, 4933 ; G. Don. Gen. Sjst. Ill, 386. 
Kbdati ; Curtis 2526. DiSTniB, British Tndia ; in Burma, the Khasia 
Hills and oa tiie lower slopes of the Eastem Himalaya. 
3. Abaija pkrox, Miq. Flor, Ind. Bat. I, Ft. I, 750. A lax spread- 
ing glabrous shrub, often ecanrlent to 20 or 30 feet ; tlie stoma, branches, 
racliises of the leaves and inflorescence bearing numerous abort recurved 
spines. Leaves 2-3-pinnate» the pinniB 3 or 4 pairs ; leaflets snb- 
coriaceous, 3-5 in a pinna, the pairs opposite, ovatye, acut^t the bases 
rounded, the edges obHcurely undulate-serrate ; both surfaces glabrous, 
the upper shining when dry, the lower sub- glaucous ; length 1-2 in., 
breadth '75-1 in, j petiolales unequal, the lateral '15-3 in., the terminal 
*5-*65 in. long. Panicle termimil, 8-15 in. long and 6 in. across, 
with nnmerons slightly compressed horizontal bi'anches, themselves 
branching and ultimately endirjg in numerous peduncled umbels of 
10-15 long'pedicelled oblong flowers '1 iu. lon^ ; the pedicels slender, 
"3-5 in, long. Oahjx-tuhe carapanulatB, 10- ridged, the limb with 5 
small triangular acute teeth. Petals ovate. Fridt ovate-globose, 
boldly 5-ri(Jgedj rather more than *! iu. long. 
Pbbak ; Scorteckmi U2, 501 j King's Collector 1037, 4434, 5089, 
8438, 10568 ; TJ^ra^ 2155, 
2. Abalidium, Miq» 
Leaves large, simple, usually deeply lobed or pinnatifid, glabix>ua , 
Flmcers male or hermaphrodite, in large compound panicles, minute. 
Calyx-teeth triangular, spreading, the tube campannlate. Petals 5, 
imbricate. Stame^^s h. Ovary usually 3-celled, two of the cells soon 
aborting. Styles distinctj subulate. Fruit obliquely ovoid, drupaceous, 
1 inch or more in length, 1-seedod ; the seed solitary, rugose, pendulous, 
vertically. snlcate ; albumen very copions, coarsely rumiuato, penetrated 
by outgrowing folds from the funicle ; embryo small. DismiB ; two 
• species, both Malayan. 
This ia ft remarkable gennB of doubtful poeition. The large solitary seed, with 
a nmcb developed funicle forming an expansion at the basa of tlio coarsely 
ruminated albumen and BGnding processoa ioto the latter, and the aniaexnal habit 
make it donbtf al wliether it shoald oob ha placod in Oornacea: (to which Seemaan 
referred it), ratber than iti Araltae^sn. 
ARALromM PiNKATiFiDtrMj Miq. Flor, Ind. Bat. I, 763, t. 13. A 
small tree without prickles, glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, irregularly lobed or coarsely pinnatifid, rarely entire 
and narrowly elliptic ; length of the lobed or pinnatifid forms 10*-18 in., 
breadth 7-10 in. ; length of the entire leaves 4-10 in., breadth 2^ iu. ; 
petiole stout, l'5-5 in. long. Particles many-bran ched, ferruginous- 
