^58 Materials f 07' a l^lora of tin: Malayan Peniustila. 



Perak : Kinj^'s Collector, No. 7893. 



This is allied to /If. lanccolafa, Bl., but it appears to me to differ from 

 that and from every other described species. From M. lanceolata it is 

 readily distinguished bj its more numerous perfectly smooth leaflets 

 tesselute-reticulate beneath ; by its flowers on short ultimate branchlets ; 

 by its double bracteole and concave petnls. 



5. Meliosma lanceolata, Blume Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. 32; 

 llumpliia III, 203, t. 168. A tiee : young branches stout, more or less 

 covered with short deciduous rusty tomenfum. Leaven 12 to 24 in. 

 long ; the petiole stout, terete, swollen at the base, the rachis glabrescent 

 or puberulous ; leaflets 6 to 8 paii'S with (mc odd, very coriaceous, 

 oblono", shortly acuminate; the edges entire, recurved when dry : the 

 base rounded or slightly cuneate, sometimes oblique ; upper surface 

 •smooth and sbining, usually very rugulose from the depression of the 

 nerves and reticulations : lower surface dull, the midrib nerves and 

 reticulations very prominent and with numerous flexuose snb-adpressed 

 hfiirs: length 3 to 6 in., breadth 1'25 to 2 in.; petiolules '2 to "35 in. 

 long, stout, pubescent. Panicles very largo, with long raceme-like 

 branches, rusty-pubescent. Floivers in rather close clusters, se.^sile, 

 *1 in. in diiim. ; bractoole single. Sei^ah 3, orbicnlar-trifmgular, blunt, 

 sub-glabrous. Petals 5; the three outer orbicular, flat and much larger 

 than the sepals ; the two inner small, irregular, shorter than the stamens. 

 ■Stamens 2, shorter than the outer petals, the anthers very broad. Fruit 

 sub-globular, compi'essed, boldly keeled, glabrous, "3 in. in diam. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 11, 7. 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 1022 ; Maingay, No. 361 ; Derry, Nos. 21 

 and 1122. Singapore : Ridley, Nos. 347, 1892, 3876. 



Var. pubescens, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 7. Under surfaces of the 

 leaves and inflorescence densely and softly rusty-tomentose : fruit '4 in. 

 in diam. 



Singapore : Ridley, No. 6341. 



6. Meliosma Ridleyi, King n. sp. A medium ti-ee : leaves 15 in. 

 or more in length, their rachises densely and minutely rufous- tomentose : 

 leaflets 11 to 15, opposite or alternate, thinly coriaceous, oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base abruptly and obliquely cu- 

 oieate ; upper surface not rugulose, sparsely adpressed-pubescent, the 

 midrib and nerves tomentose: under surface minutely rufous-pubescent, 

 the midrib and nerves with dense long shining hairs : main nerves 7 or 8 

 pairs, ascending, curving, the reticulations distinct : length 2'5 to 5 in., 

 breadth '9 to 1'2 in. ; petiolules '1 to "2 in., tomentose. Panicle longer 

 than the leaves, densely rufous-tomenlose, with short branches bearing 

 the ultimate spikes of flowers. Flowers solitai-y, oblong, not globular 



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