1898.] G. King— "Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Pemnsula- 57 
obovate, the apex shortly acuminate, the edges entire in the lower half 
bufc with a few nueqnal scanty coarse sharp teeth in the upper half; the 
base slightly uanYiwed, sometimes oblique; both stirfacea quite glabroos, 
shining and finely reticulate when dry; length 3-6 in.^ breadth l'5-2'5 
in. ; petiolnlea unequal, the lateifil '1 in, long or absent, the terminal 
'35-'8 in. Panicle terminal, shorter than tlic leaf-petio!es, with several 
rusty stellatc-tomentose bracts "75 in, long at its base, 2- branched ; the 
branches narcow, sparsely covered with scurfy pubescence ; the lateral 
branchlets aboat '75 in. long, slender, eacli bearing at its npex a crawded 
umbel of from 10-20 oblong flowera on pedicels "15-'3 in. long. Frnit 
oblong, boldly S-cibbed, crowned by the conical disc bearing 5 small 
rounded stigmas at its comers, 5-celled. 
Penakg; at Pnlo Bcetong, 1950. 
I hare seen only two specitnena (and they are both of tha same gfttfaeriag) of 
thia very cUfitinct spcctea, 
4. Trevesia, Vis. 
Shimbs or Braall trees, prickly or unarmed, glabiTius or Btellate- 
hairy. L<?arps palmifid or palnaisect; petioles often united by a wing 
at their base ; stipnles united within the petiole, or obsolete, Floicers 
pol3'gamou8, large for the Order ; umbels panicled ; pedicels not jointoil 
under the flower ; bracts small or 0. Gak/x-miirgin eutii'e or toothed. 
Petala 8-12, valvate, somewhat thick, often coliering as a cap in the 
fertile flowers. Stametis equal in number to the petals. Ovary with as 
many cells as the petals ; styles connate into a short column. Fruit 
ovoid, large for the Order. Seeds compressed \ albumen uniform, 
DiSTKfu, Species about 10 ; natives of Eastern India, Malaya and 
Polynesia. 
TaevESlA palmata. Vis, in Mem. Acad, Torino, Ser. 2, IVj 262, ^dtk 
f^. A small single-stemmed tree 10-25 feet high; young shoots ferru- 
ginous-pubescent and very prickly. Leaves coriaceous, large (12-24 in. 
in diam,), rotund in general outline, deeply pal raati fid j or, in young 
shoots, palmatisect, widely cordate at tlio base, the lobes acuminate, their 
edges serrate or sometimes lohulate ; glabrous when adult or with a few 
small rafous stellate haii s on the lower surface ; the lobules contracted 
in the middle to a pseudo-petiolule (in var. GJieiraniha) ; petiole often 
prickly, 6 to 20 in, long. Fanicles 12-30 in, long, the branches spreading, 
when young clothed with reddish-brown tomentuni ; bracts oblong, 1 in. 
long, usually deciduous; pedicels 1-1 '5 in. long. Fhmer-hnds '12 10. 
in diam. Fruit ovoid-rotund, the nhs not prominent, crovvned by 
the stout style, flesliy, 5 in. in diam. Seem. Tlev. Hed 77 ; Kur25 For, 
Flora Burma, I, 539 ; Clarke in Flor. Br. Ind. 11, 732 j Bc&rlage in Ann. 
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