ItrO A>'NA1S OP EOYAL BOTA^•IC GAEDEN, CALCirXXA.
Tlie flowers of this fine species do Bot exactly answer to JJeddome's cliiignosis of tha g
J^alniiocai'jius, iunsmuoli as they have 10 instead of 15 stamous, auil neither of the cotylodcn
lobed. In other respects tlij iluwexs and fruit agree perieolly.
PIATE 192. Jialaiiocar/iue maximiis, Eing. 1,
pelai; B to 9, tiio sepals; 10 aod 11, actliers; 1
ftoireriag brancli; 2, ripe fruit:
ovary: all etdurged.
13AL4NOCARPUS IIEMSLEYASUS, K i n g iu Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1S93, pt. 2, p. 134.
A tree 50 to 100 feot liigh; young branches ratber stout, rough, minutely Iculicellate,
puberulous. Leaves coriaccous, elliptic-oblong, sometimes slightly oborate, shortly
cuspidate, slightly narrowed to the rounded or sub-emargiuate base; upper surface glab'
rous except the miimtely tomentose midrib; the lower scabrid from minute rigid
btellately hairy tubercles which are most abxindanfc on the stout midrib and nerves;
nniu nerves 15 to 20 pairs, oblique, parallel, very prominent on the lower, obsolete
on the upper, surface; length 7 to 12 iu., breadth 3-2-3 to 5 in.; petiole -6 to -9 in.,
scabrid-puhcseent. Paniclcs axillary or terminal, .3 to 7 in. long, scurfy stellatepubescent;
flowers -6 in. long, rather crowded on the short lateral branchlets. Sepals
sub-equal, broadly ovate, aeuto, yellovvish-tomentose esternaUy, glabrous internally. Petals
twice as long as the sepals, or longer, elliptic, oblique, obtuse, glabrous except a broad
adprcssed-sericeous band externally. Siamcns ID, in bunches of three: the iilameuts
dilated, unequal, longer than the shortly ovate anthers; apical connectival appendage
deflexed, curved, longer than the anther. Ovary clongafcsd-conic, minutely tomeutose,
tapeiing into the sparsely puberulous style; stigma small. Ripe fruii nai-rowly ovoid,
apiculate, pale brownish-tomeutose, I'33 to I'5 in. long and •7o to I in. in diam, Persktent
sepals nearly equal; their bases thickened, woody, pubescent, and concave, forming
an irregularly 5-toothei cup which embraces tlie lower half of the fruit. Shorca Ilmsley
ana, liing MSS. in Herb. Calc.
Penang: Curtis, No. 2-512. Perak: King's Collector, Nos. 5431, C670, and 75G2.
Seortechini, Ko. 1653.
This is an altogether anomalous species. It has leaves like sflveral of tho scabrid species of
Skorea, such as S. exUnia and S. I'prosuli. Ifa flowers are also more like those of Shorea than
Bahaocarpus; but its fruit is essentially that oE tho latter genus, in -which, not without hesitation,
I include it.
PL.ITE 193. Halanocarpus Semsleyanu
3, calyx and pisiil; 4, a group of stamer
7, ovary, styls and stigma 8, vortical see
Eing. , flowering brancli; 2, braneli wllli ripa fruit: of natuyal
.il wilh group of stamens at its base; 6, petal from a
samo : much enUrgei.
bud;
PAcnYNOCARPus, Hook. fll.
JS-at Ord. Dipterocarpcce.
Resinous trees with the leaves and flowers of Valica, but with sometimes only
ten stamens. Fruit ovoid-globose, umbonate at the apex, I-celled, I-secded, tho pericarp
densely coriaceous, splitting vertically. Calyx with flvo equal segments, at first almost
free from the fi-uit, but the tube gradually accrescent, much thickened and ainate to
tlie fruit, and finally embracing the whole of it exccpt the apex. Seed pendulous, testa
thin and adherent to tho endocarp, cotyledons veiy thick and fleshy.
D E S C R I P T I O N S OP N E W AND EARR INDIAN PLANTS. 161
Dr. Burok (in Ann. Jard. Bot. Bnitenzorg) expands the definition of the genus Vatica so as lo
include not only the closely allied St/nnptca, but also the genera/sffim's "W. A., I}ciiuodet)droii,XoTt)i.,
and Pachnmcnrpns, Hook. fll. To the union of Synaptm with Vutica I eee no objection ; for the
•whola diSerence between the two coosists in poifect freedom of the fi'uit in Vntica from the enlarged
nalyx, whereas in Synaptea there is a slight adhesion to the colyx at the very base. But for
tho inclusion of Pnclu/noearpus I see no sufficient justification j for in this genus tho calyx does not
expand into mambronous wings, but forms a dense fibrous Ciiver for the fruit, which it (ighlly
ambraces , and to which it is quite adnate. As regards Isauxis and Iti-fmodeiuli-on, they appeal' to me to
bo undistingiiishable fi'ora each other by any but trivial marks ; but they differ snfEciently in calyx
f r cm Vatica to bo treated tis a genus under the older name RHiaodenilrou.
PLATE 104.
I'AcnvNOOARrus STAPFIA-NUS, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1S90, pt. 2, p. 136.
A tree 80 to 100 feet high; young branches rather stout, scaly-pubescent at
first, ultiinately glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, broadly elliptic or obovate-eliiptio, tlio
apex rounded, slightly narrowed to ihe rounded or subcuncate base: ujjper surface
ghtbrous, shining, the lower paler, minutely and sparsely scurfy-puberulous on the
midrib and nerves; main nerves 10 to 13 pairs, oblique, prominent on the lower,
depressed on the upper, sm-face; length 5 to 8 in., breadth 2-7o to 4-o in., petiole -eo
to 1 in. Flowers unknown. Pipe fniii almost solitary, 2-5 to 3 in. long, on a woody
raceme, globular, slightly apiculate, 1-25 in. diam,, closely invested by the gamosepalous,
6-toothed, thickened, woody, rugose, glaborulons calyx.
Perak: King's Collector, Nos. 5932 and 6132.
poch¡/>!oca>pus by Dr. 0. Stapf, of tlio Xow
as yet unknown, but it is readily identified
This very distinct species was first recognised as
n o r b a r i u m , after whom I have named it. Its flowers
b y its leaves.
PLATE lOJ. Pachpioctivpus Slapfianus, King. Fruiting branch: of natural size.
PLATE 195.
AIIISTOLOCHIA CuRTisii, n. sp. King,
Nat. Onl. Aristoloehiacece.
A wocdy climber 10 to 15 feet long; stem slender, glabrous. Leaves sub-coriaceous,
alternate, cleft to within an inch of the base into three sub-equal lobes; tho central
rather longer than the two lateral lobes, oblong-oblanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved; the two
lateral subfalcatc, obliquely obovate-oblong, very obtuse, 2-nerved, the venation of all
three transverse; length of tho side lobes 3-5 to 4-5 in., breadth at apex 1-25 to
1-5 in., the middle lobe 1 in. longer, but not so broad; petioles 2-5 in. long, slender.
Paccmes 1 or 2 from an axil, about 2 in. long, with nuuierous sub-horizontal amplexicaul
cordate more or less rose-coloured bracts -5 iu. long. Floaers few, about I'o to 2 in.
long, the periantli of a beautiful daik-bluo colour, spiinging from the apex of tho
narrowly cylindiic slightly clavate ovary, its lower part expanded into a narrowly ovoid !!!
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