Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 373 



branches ; upper surfaces spai'sely strigose, the lower densely rufescent- 

 villous : length 1-25 to 2-25 in., breadth 7 to 1-2 in. ; petiole 2 to '3 in., 

 toineiitose. (7^;nes slightly longer than the petioles, subsessile, 12- to 15- 

 fiowered, pubescent. Calyx sparsely pubescent outside, glabrous inside. 

 Diac glabrous, with 10 shoit deeply pitted lobes. Styles united to the 

 apex. Drupe globular, slightly compressed, black, glabix)us, shining, with 

 scanty pulp, -25 in. in diara., endocarp leathery. DC. Prodr. ii. 21 ; Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 611; Wall. Cat. 4246 ; Don Prodr. 190; W. & A. Prodr. 163; 

 Dalz, & Gihs. Bomb. Fl. 49; Thwaites Enum. 74; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind, 

 I. 634; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 266; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixix.; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 86. Z. albens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 607. Z. celtidifolia, 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 20; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, p. 641). Z. ferruginea, 

 Heyne in Wall. Cat. 4246, B, in part. Z. Napeca, Roxb. Fl. fnd. i. 612, 

 not Willd.; Roth Nov. Sp. 169. Z. pallens, Wall. Cat. 4247 ? Z pecli- 

 cellata. Wall. Cat. 4243. Z. rnfnla, Miq. Fl, Ind. Bat. i. 643. Z. scan- 

 dens, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 17 ; Wall. Cat. 7269. Bhavinus (Enoplia, Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 282. 



In ail the Provinces; common. — Distrib., British India, Ceylon: 

 tropical Asia and Australia. 



In Perak there is a form of this (King's Collector Nos. 5106 and 

 5276) with leaves rather larger than the measurements above given, 

 and nearly glabrous. 



3. ZizYPHDS KdnstlEri, King n. sp. A scandent or . straggling 

 shrub : young shoots rusty-pubescent ; spines stout, solitary, decurved. 

 Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, very finely 

 serrate, narrowed to the minutely cordate base ; upper surface shining, 

 glabrous except the impressed rusty- pubescent nerves ; the lower dull, 

 rusty-pubescent especially on the 3 main vertical nerves and their 

 lateral branches ; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 2 to 3 in., petiole "15 to 2 

 in. Cymes 5- to 8-flowered, sub-sessile and crowded on branches 4 to 

 10 in. long, many of them in the axils of leaves much smaller than 

 those of the stem. Calyx rusty-tonientose outside, glabrous inside ; its 

 teeth broadly triangular, acute, spreading. Disc with 5 broad ti-uncate 

 omarginate teeth, glabrous except a villous elevated ring surrounding 

 the base of the sunk tomentoso ovary. Styles united for half their 

 length. Dnipe ovoid, slightly compressed, rufous-tomentoso, the per- 

 sistent calyx reflexed ; 1 to P25 in long, and from "o to '75 in. diam. ; 

 pulp scanty, endocarp woody ; seed single, compressed. 



Province Welleslcy, King's Collector No. 1607. Perak : Wray, 

 Nos. 1911, 3281 and 3285; King's Collector Nos. 3772 and 6853. 



A very di.stinct species, the flowering branches of which have much 

 smaller leaves than those uf the barren branches. Named iu memory 



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