23 
1895.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
I have seen only Maingay’s imperfect specimens of this. The above 
description is copied chiefly from Hiern. 
4. Sandoricum indicum, Cav. Diss. VII, p. 359, tt., 202, 203. 
A tree 30 to 40 feet high. Leaves 9 to 18 in. long; leaflets broadly 
ovate to ovate-rotund, shortly and abruptly acuminate, the base rounded 
or sub-cuneate, slightly unequal; main nerves 8 to 12 pairs, spread¬ 
ing, impressed on the upper, prominent on the lower surface when dry; 
upper surface glabrous, lower pubescent or puberulous, becoming 
glabrescent when old; length 4 to 8 in., breadth 2 to 4 - 75 in.; lateral 
petiolules 3 to 4 in., terminal 2 to 3 in. Panicles several, scattered 
near the apices of the branches, only a few inches long, few-flowered, 
minutely rusty-tomentose. Flowers ‘4 or *5 in. long; pedicels ’25 in., 
pubescent. Calyx minutely tomentose. Petals linear-elliptic, obtuse, 
fleshy, glabrous. Staminal tube narrow, fleshy, striate, glabrescent out¬ 
side and puberulous inside. Fruit sub-globose, obtusely 5-angled at 
least when young, densely but minutely pubescent, T5 to 2 in. in diam., 
filled with a yellowish acid edible pulp; arillus with many spongy 
woody fibres; seed brown, glossy. W. & A. Prodr. i. 120 ; Blume Bijdr. 
I. 163 ; Adr. Jus. in Mem. Mus. xix. t. 16, f. 15 ; Hassk. Retzia, i. 146 ; 
Roxb. Cor. PI. iii. 58, t. 261 ; PI. Ind. ii. 392; Wall. Cat. 1249; Kurz 
For. FI. Burma, I, 217 ; Heirn in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 553 ; De 
Cand. Mon. Phan. I, 461; Miq. FI. Ind. Bot. I Ft. 2., p. 541. Sandoricum 
nervosum , Blume Bijdr. I., 165 ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV, 30. 
S. ternatum , Blanco FI. Filijp. ed. i. 346. S. glaberrimum, Hassk. 
Retzia , i. 145. Trichilia nervosa , Vahl Synib. i. 31. Melia Koetjape , 
Burm. FI. Ind. 101. T. venosa, Spreng. Syst. iii. 68. 
In all the Provinces except the Nicobar Islands. Distrib. Siam ; 
the Malayan Archipelago, Burma. 
The fruit of this is edible, and on that account the species is occa¬ 
sionally cultivated. 
3. Megaphylljia, Hemsl. 
A tree. Leaves large, pinnate; leaflets opposite, slightly oblique. 
Panicles extra-axillary, narrow and raceme-like, shorter than the leaves. 
Flowers more than 1 in. across when expanded Calyx cupular, fleshy, 
sub persistent, annulate and thickened below the middle; its tube 
adnate to the base of the ovary, its mouth irregularly 3 to 5-lobed. 
Petals 10, narrowly elliptic, thickly coriaceous, in two rows, free, imbri¬ 
cate. Staminal-tube cylindric, its mouth obscurely crenulate ; anthers 
10, included. Disk cushion-shaped, many-lobed. Ovary seated on the 
disk, depressed, 7- to 9-celled ; style thick, stigma capitate, ovules one 
from the central angle of each cell. Capsule large, sub-spherical, 7- to 
