XLV. ANACARDIACE^. 
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Microstemon.] 
Leaves tomentose beneath.(i) M. velutina 
Leaves glabrescent beneath.(2) M. Curtisii 
(1) M. velutina Engl. DC. Mon. Phan. l.c. 294; King, l.c. 498. 
Pentaspadon ? velutinus Hook. fil. l.c. ii. 28. 
A big tree 80 to 100 ft. tall, 2 to 3 ft. through. Leaves (young 
claret colour) 6 to 10 in. long; rachis, petioles and undersides of 
leaflets as well as panicle softly pubescent-tomentose; leaflets 
7 to 11, membranous, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base rounded 
or cuneate; nerves 12 to 16 pairs, 2 to 4 in. long, -8 to ‘15 in. wide; 
petiolules '15 in. long. Panicles numerous, sub-terminal on 
peduncles, 3-5 in. long tomentose, much-branched, 3 in. long and 
as wide, blowers very small, sessile, white. Calyx glabrous. 
Petals glabrescent outside, tomentose inside. Fruit narrow oblong 
compressed scurfy; pericarp leathery. Hab. Dense forests on 
rocky streams. Malacca (Maingay). Negri Sembilan. Bukit 
Tampin (Goodenough). Pahang River. Selangor, Ginting Bidai. 
Perak, Gunong Bubu 300 to 500 ft. altitude (Kunstler); Sungei 
Njing, Plus Reserve (Murdoch); Gunong Kerbau (Haniff). 
(2) M. Curtisii King, l.c. 498. 
A medium-sized tree. Leaves 5 to 7 in. long; rachis puberulous; 
leaflets 7 membranous, oblong-lanceolate acuminate base round 
and oblique glabrescent, with scattered hairs at base and tufts of 
white hairs in the nerve-axils; nerves 13 to 17 pairs, 175 to 3 in. 
long, 75 to 9 in. wide ; petiolules -i in. long. Panicles sub-terminal 
axillary, peduncled, puberulous. Flowers less than -i in. long, on 
short pedicels, solitary or 2- to 4-clustered. Calyx puberulous. 
Petals elliptic, blunt. Hab. Lankawi, by the lake (Curtis). 
11 . PENTASPADON, Hook. fil. 
Big trees. Leaves unequally pinnate; leaflets opposite. Panicles 
in upper axils, peduncled, branched, slender. Flowers minute 
bisexual. Calyx-lobes 5, imbricate. Petals oblong-ovate, im¬ 
bricate. Stamens 5 minute at disc-base with 5 small subulate 
staminodes, alternating. Disc cupular, io-lobed. Ovary on disc, 
i-celled ; styles short, stout. Stigma bent to one side. Species 2, 
I Bornean. 
Panicle 3 in. long, 4 in. wide; flowers -05 in. wide . . (1) P. officinalis 
Panicle 6 in. long lax; flowers *1 in. wide . . . (2) P. Motleyi 
(1) P- officinalis Holmes, in King, l.c. 499; Journ. Pharm. 
Soc. lii. 389. 
Tree 60 to 100 ft. tall, 18 to 36 in. through. Leaves 4 to 8 in. 
long; leaflets 7 to 9, very thinly coriaceous, oblong or elliptic- 
lanceolate, shortly blunt-acuminate, glabrous except tufts of hairs 
in the axils; nerves 6 to 9 pairs, raised beneath, 175 to 275 in. 
long, -8 to 1-25 in. wide; petiolules -15 in. long. Panicles 3 to 
4 in. long; peduncle 4 in. long, minutely tomentose; branches 
