XVII. FLACOURTIACEjE. 
Taraklogenos.] 
163 
T. Scortechinii. Scales of petals hairy, half as long as petals. 
Stamens 32, hairy. Female flowers, sepals 3. Petals 6. Stamens 17. 
Ovary ovoid, glabrous i-celled, with 4 many-ovuled parietal 
placentas. Stigmas 4 radiating. Fruit globular smooth 2'5 in. 
through; pericarp green thick, inner part woody. Seeds *75 in. 
long. Hab. Forest 300 to 2000 ft. altitude (in Sumatra). Perak, 
Goping (Kunstler). Distrib. Sumatra. 
var. tomentosa. T. tomentosa King, l.c . 123. Leaves hairy 
beneath. Hab. Perak, Batang Padang (Kunstler). 
6. PANGIUM, Reinwdt. 
A lofty tree about 50 ft. tall. Leaves entire or 3-lobed, ovate- 
cordate, acuminate. Flowers in axillary racemes, unisexual. 
Sepals 2 or 3 concave. Petals 5 or 6 with large scales at the base. 
Male flowers, stamens 20 to 25; filaments broad flat; anthers 
ovate. Pistillode o. Females, ovary ovoid, i-celled, 2 parietal 
placentas many-ovuled. Staminodes 5 or 6. Stigma sessile 2- to 
4-lobed. Fruit large, oblong-ovoid; pericarp woody wrinkled. 
Seeds many large ovoid. Albumen large oily. One species only. 
(1) P. edule Reinwdt. PI. Soc. Ratisbon, ii. 13; Benn. PI. Jav. 
Rar. 205, t. 43; Blume Ritmphia, iv. 20, t. 178. 
Leaves reddish buff pubescent beneath, 6 to 8 in. long, 
4 to 5 in. wide; petioles 2 to 4 in. long. Male flowers in racemes 
4 in. long, few-flowered. Bracts linear 1 in. long. Flowers 1-5 in. 
across, greenish white. Female flowers solitary on a 3-in. peduncle. 
Fruit from 7 to 12 in. long, 375 in. through or more, brown. Seeds 
2 in. long, roughly triangular in an oily pulp. Hab . By river- 
banks and in villages. Selangor, road to Bukit Kutu; Batu 
Caves. Pahang, banks of Pahang River. Perak, Temengoh; Ulu 
Bubong (Kunstler). Kelantan. Distrib. Malay Islands. Native 
name: Kepayung or Payung. Seeds also known as K'luak. 
Use: The seeds boiled, cut up and macerated in water are eaten, 
the oil extracted used in cookery. Fresh seeds and oil contain a 
poisonous glucoside breaking down and producing prussic acid, 
used in dart poison by Sakais, and the bark is used as a piscicide 
(Gimlette, Malay Poisons 76). The oil is also used for attracting 
fish. 
7. SCAPHOCALYX, Ridley. 
Small trees. Leaves alternate 3-nerved, thin, coriaceous. 
Flowers unisexual, fascicled from pubescent extra-axillary tubercles 
on the branches, pedicelled. Calyx spathaceous covering the rest 
of the flower and splitting on one side or at the top with 4 lobes. 
Petals narrow, as long as calyx or longer, 5. Stamens 6; filaments 
short; anthers linear or lanceolate longer. Pistillode 0. Female 
