24 G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
9-lobed, 7- to 9-celled, the pericarp very thick. Seeds exalbuminouS) 
compressed, exarillate, glabrous, with large hilum and conferruminate 
cotyledons. 
Distrib. A single Malayan species. 
Megaphyll^ea Perakensis, Hemsl. in Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 1708. A 
tree 20 to 40 feet high. Leaves when adult 6 or 7 feet long (fide Hem- 
sley), glabrous, the petiole and rachis compressed; leaflets oblong, sub- 
coriaceous, sub-acute; the base oblique, sub-truncate or cuneate ; the 
larger 12 to 15 in. long, 3 to 4 in. broad; petiolules *35 to '75 in.; 
main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spreading, curving, slightly prominent be¬ 
neath. Panicles 16 to 20 in. long ; the lateral branches short, racemose, 
few-flowered; the main rachis 4-angled, compressed. Flower-buds 
clavate, narrowed into a pseudo-stalk as long as the pedicel proper. 
Flowers 1 in. long, and about P25 in. in diam. when expanded, their 
pedicels '35 in. long. Calyx shortly cylindric, with a thick lobulated 
ring outside near the thickened base, puberulous outside. Staminal-tube 
shorter than the petals, pubescent inside below the insertion of the 
anthers, otherwise glabrous. Anthers elliptic. Ovary and lower half 
of style minutely tomentose. Fruit globular-pyriform, densely but mi¬ 
nutely tomentose, about 3 in. in diam. ; the pericarp 1 in. thick. Seeds 
1 in. long. 
Perak; at elevations of 3,000 to 4,000 feet, Scortecliini, Wray, Curtis, 
King’s Collector. 
This genus was placed by its author provisionally next to Chisoche- 
ton to which it is no doubt closely allied, the points in which it chiefly 
differs from that genus being its two-ranked petals and 7- to 9-celled 
ovary. I give the length of the leaves as 6 to 7 feet on ihe authority 
of Mr. Hemsley who, in his figure, shows the leaflets as very numerous. 
None of the Herbarium specimens which I have seen enable me to esti¬ 
mate either the length of the former or the number of the latter. 
4. Chisocheton, Blume. ( Schizochiton .) 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves equally pinnate ; leaflets entire, opposite 
or sub-opposite, more or less oblique. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, in 
extra-axillary, rarely axillary, divaricately-branched panicles and nume¬ 
rous ; or in spike-like racemes or cymes and few. Calyx small, cup-shaped 
or cylindric, entire or 4 -5-toothed. Petals 4-5 or more, usually 
linear-elongate or cylindric, at first cohering in a tube- especially 
below, at length spreading, somewhat imbricated or valvate. Sta- 
minal tube elongate, slender, tubular, 4 to 12-lobed at the apex, lobes 
entire or toothed; anthers linear, equal in number to and alternate 
with the lobes, included or somewhat exserted. Lisk short and fleshy, 
