100 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1, Hakmandia kdnstleri, King, n. sp. A glabrous tree 30 to 40 

 feet high ; young branches slender, striate. Leaves coriaceous, ovate- 

 lanceolate or lanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base 

 cuneate ; main nerves about 6 pairs, very indistinct on both surfaces ; 

 length 2'5 to 3'5 in., breadth 1 to 2 in., petiole "25 to "5 in. Bacemes of 

 female flowers axillary, solitai-y, not much longer than the petioles. 

 Flowers "15 in. long, solitary in the axils of oblong obtuse bracteoles. 

 Calyx flat, spreading, with 4 very obtuse teeth. Corolla four times as 

 long as the calyx, urceolate ; teeth 4, acute. Ovary hidden (except the 

 stigmas) by the barren staminal tube and by the corolla, pyramidal, 

 the style short ; 1-celled with a single spuriously erect ovule : stigma 

 solitary, capitate. Fruit oblong, obtuse, 1'25 in. long, and '6 in. in 

 diam., surrounded at the base by the greatly enlai'ged coloured corru- 

 gated calyx which forma a frill 3 to 4 in. in diam. 



Perak ; King's Collector. 



A very striking plant. The accrescent calyx forms an enormous 

 waxy collar round the base of the fx-uit which, at first green, changes 

 into a beautiful flesh-colour, the central part being bluish-black. This 

 species is closely allied to Uarmandia mekongensis, Pierre (For. Flora 

 Coch. China, t. 264), from which it differs in having an urceolate (not 

 tubular-campanulate) corolla and a larger fruit with the accrescent calyx 

 less invaginated at the base. 



3. OCHANOSTACHTS, Mast. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, penni-nerved. Floioers 

 numerous, on long slender branching axillary spikes. Calyx cup- 

 shaped, 4-5-toothed, not accrescent. Petals 4-5, free, valvate. Stamens 

 12-15, hypogynous, or adherent to the base of the petals; filaments 

 subulate, glabrous ; anthers 4-celled, opening longitudinally ; stami- 

 nodes 0. Disk hypogynous, fleshy, very shallow, annular, inconspicuous ; 

 ovary free, sub-hemispheric, incompletely 3-celled beneath, 1-celled 

 above; style short, cylindric; stigma minute, terminal, 3-lobed; ovules 

 1 in each cell, pendulous from the apex of a central placenta. Fruit dru- 

 paceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded. — Distrib. Species 1 or 2 ; natives of the 

 Malay Peninsula and Borneo. 



1. OcnANOSTACHYS AMBNTACEA, Mast. in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 

 579. A tree 30 to 40 feet high; young branches glabrous, the tips 

 alone puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, entire, 

 bluntly sub-acuminate, the base slightly narrowed, both surfaces gla- 

 brous; main nerves 5 (rarely 4) pairs, ascending, prominent on the 

 lower, depressed on the upper surface when dry; length 3 to 5 in., 

 breadth 1*5 to 2'5 in., petiole "5 to "75 in. Uacemes as long as or longer 

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