456 Materials for a Flora of tltP Malayan Pemnsula. 



Leaflets haiiy, especially on the under surface. 



Flr)Wei's in clusters, sessile, buds globose ... 5. 31. lanceolata. 

 Flowers solitary, shortly pedicelled, buds ob- 

 long ... ... ... ... 6. M. llidleyi. 



1. Meliosma elliptica, Hook. fil. Fl. Bi'. Ind. II, 6. A tree 20 

 to 40 feet high ; young branches, petioles, the midribs of the leaves on 

 both surfaces, and the lower surface especially on the nerves densely 

 rusty-pubescent or tomentose. Leaves elliptic or oblanceulate, shortly 

 caudate-acuminate, the edges entire or remotely serrate, gradually 

 narrowed from above the middle to the petiole : upper surface glab- 

 rous except the midrib and puberulous nerves ; main nerves about 10 

 pairs, curving upwards, the transverse veins distinct ; length 4 to 9 in., 

 breadth 1"25 to 3 in. ; petiole '5 to 1"5 in. Panicle terminal, usually on 

 rather a long peduncle, longer than the leaves, the branches nither 

 few and short. Flnwers crowded, sessile, "05 in. in diani. Bracleoles 

 pubescent. Sepals 4, sub-coriaceous, oibicular, very concave, shining, 

 sub-ciliolate. Petals 5, darker in colour than ihe sepals but of similar 

 shape, thick, opaque :ind dotted, glabi'ous. Ffrf(7e stamens 2 to 4. Fruit 

 sub-globular, ridged, snb-gil)l)(nis at the base, glabrous, "2 to "25 in. 

 in diam. Sahia florihunda, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 521. 



Malacca: Griffith, No. 1025; Maingay, Deny. Perak : King's 

 Collector, Nos. 4051, 5468, 5469, 6150, 8103, and 10659.— Singapore. 

 DiSTRiB. Sumatra. 



This is closel}' allied to M. simpUcifoUa which has however its 

 flowers in ultimate cyralets of 3, whereas in this the flowers are single. 

 Tlie sepals moreover in M. simplicifoUa sire thinner and more pubescent 

 than in this. As a rule the leaves in this species are quite entire; but 

 in several of the Perak specimens they are coarsely serrate, without in 

 any other respect departing from tiie typical form. 



2. MbLiosMA LANCiFOLiA, H< ok fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 6. A tree : 

 young branches petioles and i.iiflorescenco rusty-\ illous. Leaves thinW 

 coriaceous, oblanceolate, acuminate, entire, gi'aduallj' narrowed fiom 

 above the middle to the petiole; both surfaces distinctly reticulate, 

 the upper shining, glabrous except the tomcntot-e midrib and nerves ; 

 lower villous on the midrib and nerves, otherwise with scattered hairs ; 

 main nerves 20 to '2 1 [)airs, spreading, curved, interarching freely; 

 length 12 to 18 in., breadth 3 5 to 4 in., petiole '75 in. Panicle shorter 

 than the leaves, pedunculate, the branches few and short and the 

 flowers sessile and crowded. Flowers about '1 in. in diam. ; bracteole 

 oblon"", pubescent, shorter than the 4 ovate glabrous sepals : petals 0, 

 fertile; sto?nens 2 or 3, shorter than the sepals. Ovary elliptic; style 

 short, terminal. Fruit transversely ovoid-globose, keeled, glabrous, 

 •3 in in diam. 



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