Materials for a Fhra of tJie Malayan Peninsula. 36$ 



glabrous. Sepals 5, free, elliptie* obtusev Petals 5, elHpHc-rotand, 

 obtuse, larger th.au the sepals. Stamens 5 ; anthers broadly ovate 

 cordate, filaments flattened. Disc cupular, glabrous or nearly so, the 

 edges obscurely lobed. • Capstile narrowly ellipsoid, ^vith 2 vertical 

 grooves, much tapered to the apex, glabrous 1 to 1*5 in. long, J -celled, l- 

 seeded. Seed '6 to "8 in. long, ellipsoid, brown, shining. Lawson \x^ 

 Hook. fil. FL Br. Ind, I, 622. K. Maingayi, Laws. I. c. K. robustai 

 Kurz For. Flora Burma, I. 253. K. calophylla, Wall. Cat. 433.5. 

 K. robusta, Kurz MSS. Ehesa Moja, Hara. MSS. ex Arn. in Ed. Phil. 

 Journ. xvi. 315 ; Walp. Rep. i. 538. Gelastrxis rohustus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 

 626. Nothocnesfis siomatrana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 531. 



Malacca : Giiffitli, No. 1994 (Kew Distrib.). Singapore ; Maingay^ 

 Kew Distrib. No. 394. Andaraans, King's Collectors. Distrib. Burma, 

 Chifctagong, Khasia Hills, Assam and Sikhim, Sumatra. 



I cannot discover any mark to separate K. Maingayi, Laws, from 

 typical K, pulcherrima, Wall, and I have therefore reduced that species 

 here. This is a much rarer tree in the Malayan Peninsula than the 

 next which is very common, 



2. KuRBiMU PANicuLATA, Wall. Cat. 4-336. A tree 30 to 60 feet 

 high ; young shoots glabrous. Leaves coriaceous ; leaves as in the last. 

 but often slightly narrowed to the base, and sometimes with as many a^ 

 24 pairs of nerves ; petioles varying from 1 to 2 '25 in. and occasionally 

 even '6 in. in lengtli. Panicles shorter than the leaves, the branches sparse 

 and spike-like, puberulous. Flowers "15 in. in diam., on pedicels about 

 as long as themselves. Sepals 5, spreading, ovate, obtuse, pnberulous. 

 Petals 5, much larger than the sepals, broadly ovate, sub-acute, puberu- 

 lous, especially on the inner surface. Stamens 5, rather shorter than 

 the petals, inserted between the deep quadrate lobes of the disc ; the 

 filaments flattened, puberulous ; the anthers sbort, broadly ovate. Ovary 

 sub-rotund, pubescent towax'ds the narrowed apex. Fruit '65 in. long, 

 more or less deeply bifid, eacb half 1- or sometimes 2-seeded ; the 

 pericarp leatbery, nearly black externally and glabrous. Seeds oblong 

 often plano-convex, with dark shiny testa, "3 in. long. Lawson in Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I. 622. Rhesa paniculata, Arn in Ed. Phil. Journ. xvi. 

 315; Walp. Rep. i. 538. Trochisandra indica, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 120; 

 Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixvii. Pyrospermum calophyllum, Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. Suppl. i. 402. 



In all the provinces except the Nicobar and Andaman islands. A 

 much commoner tree than the last. Distkib. Sumatra. 



There is considerable variety in the length of the petiole in this* 

 species, but I cannot discover that differences in its length are associated 

 with differences in any other organ. 



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