' 1895.] Gr. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula . 87 
11. Carapa, Aubl. 
Glabrous littoral trees. Leaves 2- or 4- or sometimes 6-foliolate; 
leaflets opposite, quite entire, the nerves faint. Panicles lax, axillary, 
cymose, flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 4-fid, short. Petals 4, reflexed. 
Staminal tube urceolate-globose, 8-dentate, the teeth bi-partite : anthers 8, 
2-celled, included, alternating with the teeth. Fish fleshy, cup¬ 
shaped, adherent to the base of the ovary. Ovary 4-celled, 4-sulcate, 
the cells 2-8-ovuled ; style short, stigma discoid. Fruit capsular, sub-glo¬ 
bose, large, 4-celled, 6-12-seeded; pericarp fleshy, dehiscing by 4 valves. 
Seeds large, thick, angular; testa hard, spongy, aril 0, hilum large, 
ventral; cotyledons amygdaloid.— Distrib. About 6 species, all tropi¬ 
cal and usually littoral. 
Leaves with broad blunt apex and narrow 
base, coriaceous; panicles stout; fruit as 
large as an orange ... ... 1 . C. obovata. 
Leaves with sub-acute apex and broad base, 
very thinly coriaceous ; panicles slender: 
fruit 7 to 20 in. in diam. ... ... 2. C. moluccensis. 
1. Carapa obovata, Blume Bijdr. 179. Leaves 3 to 6 in. long; 
leaflets 1 to 2 pairs, coriaceous, obovate to oblong, the apex broad, ob¬ 
tuse, rarely notched or sub-acute, the base narrowed ; main nerves 6 to 9 
pairs, length 3 to 4 in., breadth 1*35 to 1’75 in., petiolules *2 to - 35 in. 
Panicles 15 to 2*5 in. long, stout, cymose, few-flowered. Flowers - 25 in. 
long, their pedicels ’3 to ‘5 in. long, bracteolate. Calyx-teeth broad, 
rounded. Petals much longer than the calyx, broadly elliptic, the edges 
imbricate. Ovary broadly ovoid. Fruit the size of an orange, apiculate 
when young, but not when ripe. C. DC. Monogr. Phaner. I, 718 : 
Seemann Flora Yitiensis p. 38. C. moluccensis , Kurz (not of Lamk. 
For. Flor. Br. Burma, I, 226 : C. moluccensis, (in part,) Hiern in Hook, 
fil. FI. Br. Iud. I. 567. Xylocarpiis obovatus , A Juss. Mem. Mel. p. 92 ; 
Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, p. 546. 
Malacca: Maingay, (Kew Distrib.) No. 347 ; Griffith, No. 1098. 
Perak; Scortechini, King’s Collector. South Andaman; Kurz, King’s 
Collectors. Little Andaman : Prain. Distrib. Sunderbuns of Bengal : 
(Heinig) and others ; Java and other islands of the Malayan Archi¬ 
pelago. Tropical Africa. 
2. Carapa moluccensis, Lamk. Encyc. Meth I, 621. Leaves 4 
to 10 in. long; leaflets usually 2 pairs, thinly coriaceous, almost mem¬ 
branous, broadly ovate to ovate- oblong, sub-acute, the base broad, un¬ 
equal ; main nerves about 6 pairs, spreading ; length 2 to 4 in., breadth 
1*5 to 2 35 in., petiolules *15 to '25 in. Panicles 3 to 5 in. long, slender, 
with lax spreading few-flowered branches. Flowers as in the last, but 
