486 Materials for a Flora oj the Malaynn Peninsula. 



rence of tlie under surface of (lie lenves in tin's spooies Ihore is sonir 

 flivf'isily, many speoitnens liaviiipf (he under siirfaoe covered witii n 

 deuse and iiniform layer of rust.y tonicntnm, while in other specimens 

 the lower suifaces of the leaves and tlie petioles are glahreseent. The 

 species was named l)y Fatlier Scorteeliini to commemorate his friend, 

 the Revd. Father Tennison Woods, who died of an illness contracled 

 during his exploration of the physiography of the central mountainous 

 range of the Malayan Peninsula. 



4. Melanoruh(Ea CuRTtsir, Oliver in Hook. Ic. Plantar, t. 1513. 

 A tree 40 to 80 feet high : young branches very slender. Leaies 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, or shortly and 

 bluntly acuminate, the base cuneate, both surfaces quite glabrous and 

 without scales or dots ; main nerves 12 to 16 pairs, spreading, curving-, 

 faint; length 3 to 6 in., breadth 1"25 to 2 in. ; petiole '5 to '75 in. 

 Fanicles slender, open, axillary and terminal, pedunculate, much longer 

 than the leaves ; the branches opposite or sub-opposite, distant, lax, 

 each bearing several ultimate few-flowered branchlets neai- the apex, 

 puberulous close to the flowers, otherwise quite glabrous ; bracteoles 

 small, ovate-lanceolate, caducous. Floivers '2^ in. long, on puberulous 

 pedicels, the buds narrow. Calyx with daik nerves. Petals 5, linear, 

 puberulous outside, contorted in aestivation. Stamens JO, a litthr 

 shorter than the petals, glabrous ; the Jllavients slender ; the antlicrs small, 

 oval. Disc pubescent. Ovary obliquely ovoid, stalked, glabrous. Siyle 

 sub-terminal. Drupe depressed-globose, '5 to "75 in. in diam., its stalk 

 ■35 in. ; the enlarged petals leatliery, linear-oblanceolate, 1'75 to 2*6 in. 

 long. M. DiUliieuna, Scort. MSS. in Herb. Calcutta. 



Penaug : Curtis, No. 242 ; Kin^r's Collector, No, 1635. Perak : 

 King's Collector, No. b8tt7. Kedali : Ridley, No. 5359. 



Tlie late Fatlier Scortechini notes on this that the stamens are 

 occasionally 8 instead of 10. 



5. Melanorrhcea torqdata. King n. sp. A tree 80 to 100 feet 

 high : young branches stout, and with rough rather pale bi'own bark. 

 Leaves coriaceous, obovate, with broad rounded apices, sub-undulate 

 edues, and shai ply cuneate bases ; both surfaces glabrous, the upper 

 with I he i-eticulations almost obsolete, tiie midrib very broad and flat ; 

 the lower with the transverse veins rather distinct, the midrib sharply con- 

 vex ; main nerves 22 to 26 pairs, rather faint on the upper surface when 

 dry, very distinct on the lower, spreading and rather straight ; length 

 7 to Jl in., breadth 4 to 625 in. ; petiole '25 to '35, stout. Tanicles 

 terminal, branching from the very base, densely and minutely tawny- 

 tomentose; the branches spreading, naked below but with many branchlets 

 toward the apex, the ultimate branchlets cymulose. Flowers 25 in. 

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