Materials for a Flora 6f the MaTaynn Pemnsnla. 487 



lonpf, on pedicels 2 in. long-, bnds ellipsoid. Calif.r tnbxilai' or narrowly 

 cnmpannlate, i(s mouMi wifcli 3 broadly-triang-nlar mioqnal teefcli, 

 pul)ernloiis extcrnallj, wifclieiiiig and lian^iTijjf round t.lio ])edioels like 

 a loose collar. Petals 5, sligliMy inibiicafce, elliptic, snb-ncnte, spreading 

 or sub-:eflexed, '2 in. long', toinentose outside, pubescent inside. Stamens 

 6, nearly as long as the petals ; anthers small, ovate ; filaments snbnlatej 

 pubescent below the middle. Ovary globose or obovoid, shorter tliau 

 the gynophore, both tomentose ; ovule solitaiy, its podosperm from 

 the very base of the cell : style longer than tlie ovary, cylindric, pubes- 

 cent except near tlie apex; st:gvia truncate. Fruit unkuov^n. 



Perak : King's Collectoj-, No. 5552. 



This differs in calyx from Melanorrlia'a as usually understood 

 inasmuch as in this plant the calyx separates from the flower soon after 

 expansion and remains as a loose 8-toothed collar hanging round 

 the pedicel ; whereas in 'Mehinorrhoid as hitherto defined, the calyx is 

 calyptriform and is pushed off the flower by the expansion of the petals. 

 In both cases tlie calyx is deciduous ; in the one case it separates 

 from the flower by the apex of the latter, in the other case by its 

 base. 



6. Melanorrh(EA aptera, King n. sp. A tree 40 to 70 feet high ; 

 young branches stout, with lough cinereous bark, the cicatrices of the 

 fallen leaves very proniinent. Leaves very coriaceous, oblanceolate- 

 oblong or obovate-elliptic ; the apex broad and rounded, rarely with 

 a short sub-acute point ; narrowed from above the middle and decur- 

 rent on the short stout petiole ; the edges quite entire, slightly revolute 

 when dry ; both surfaces glabrous, the upper pale greenish-brown when 

 dry, the lower brown, the niidiib on the upper surface broad and flat- 

 tened in its lower half, on the lower surface convex ; main lateral nerves 

 15 to 18 paii's, spi-eading, rather straight, somewhat prominent beneath ; 

 length 6 ti» J5 in., breadth 2 to 6 in, ; petiole *5 to 1 in., stout. Panicles 

 shorter or lt)nger than the leaves, axillary, crowded near the ends of 

 the twigs ; their branches short, racemose, few-flowered, glaucous. Flotver- 

 buds narrowly ellipsoid, glahious, ebi'acteate. Flotvers 1 in. in diam., 

 their pedicels '25 to '3 in. long, sparsely adpressed-})nbescent. Calyx 

 ghibious, about "5 in. long at the time of falling. Petiils 5 or 6, much 

 imbricate, oblanceohite, densely adpressed-sericeous outside, glabrous 

 inside. Siann^ns numerous (about 60), on a conical torus Avhich is pro- 

 duced upwards into a gynophore. Ovary obliquely ovoid, compressed, 

 ridged, glabrous, 1-cclled, with a single oblong ovule pendulous from 

 a basal funicle. Style sub-teiminal, stout, bent, glabrous, longer than 

 the ovary ; s^i(/wa short, cylindric. Drupe depressed-globose, glabrou.v, 

 with numerous thin vertical ridges, 1"5 in. in diam. Seed solitary, 



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