58 Cf. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3, 
branches spreading, the ultimate branchlets 2- to 3-flowered. Flowers 
on short pedicels, obovoid-rotund, *1 in. long. Calyx cupular, puberu- 
lous outside, with 3 broad blunt teeth. Petals 3, longer than the calyx, 
rotund, concave, slightly puberulous on the back and edges. Staminal 
tube broadly ovoid, the mouth wide and with 9 broad bifid teeth; an¬ 
thers 10, elliptic, their apices exserted. Ovary depressed, tawny-pubes¬ 
cent, 3-celled: stigma large, cylindric, glabrous, sulcate. Fruit depress¬ 
ed-globular, mammillate, 2 in. in diam., minutely rusty puberulous, 3- 
celled (one cell abortive), pericarp thickly coriaceous, almost fleshy. C. 
DC Monog. Phan. I, 589. 
Singapore: Maingay Herb. prop. No. 3351 (Kew Distrib. No. 355). 
Perak: King’s Collector, No. 5944; Wray, No. 2349. Penang: Curtis 
No. 2437. 
The fruit when ripe is reddish-brown, according to Mr. Curtis. 
7. Aglaia, Lour. 
Trees or shrubs, glabrous, lepidote or stellately pubescent, heaves 
pinnate or trifoliolate ; leaflets quite entire. Flowers polygamo-dioeci- 
ous, minute or small, numerous, paniculate, sub-globose. Calyx 5-lobed, 
imbricated in bud. Petals 5, concave, short, imbricated. Staminal tube 
urceolate or sub-globose, 5-toothed at the apex or entire; anthers 
usually 5, or 4 or 10, included or half-exserted, erect. Dish incon¬ 
spicuous. Ovary ovoid or shortly so, 1-3-celled, with 2-1 ovules in each 
cell; style glabrous, short. Berry dry, 1-2-celled and-seeded. Seeds 
with a fleshy integument.— Distrib. Species about 70, Chinese, Indo- 
Malayan or Polynesian. 
The genus Aglaia is distinguished by its small flowers with 5-merous calyx and 
corolla, and depressed-globose or globose staminal tube. The calyx-lobes are often 
imbricate, and the petals are invariably so, three being outside or partly so, and 
two entirely covered by the outer three. To the genus, as limited by M. C. de 
Candolle and Mr. Hiern, only species of which the anthers are either 5 or 6 can 
be admitted. The effect of this limitation as to the number of the anthers is to 
force into Amaora various species which, taking the section Aphanamixis as the type 
of Amoora, have far less in common with that genus than with the 5-antherous 
species of Aglaia. The result, as regards Amoora, is that that genus is loaded with 
a number of anomalous species collected together in a group under the sectional 
name Pseudo-Aglaia. By relaxing the definition of Aglaia so as to admit plants of 
which the flowers have 4, 8 or 10 stamens, and by limiting Amoora to plants with 3- 
merous corollas, it appears to me that both genera are greatly simplified. Dehis¬ 
cence in the fruit cannot be regarded as a diagnostic character of Amoora, there 
being several Indian species in the fruit of which there is no evidence of dehis¬ 
cence ; but indehiscence in the fruit is an absolute character in Aglaia. The effect 
of the change which I have ventured to carry into effect in the diagnoses of these 
two genera is, as regards the species described by Mr. Hiern in the Flora of British 
