490 Materials for a Flora of the "Malay fin Peninsula. 



are subsessile. In their leaves the Malacca and Buitenzorg specimens 

 closely resemble each other, but the panicles of the latter are much 

 larger than those of the former. I think it possible therefore that, 

 when better specimens of the Malacca plnnt are collected, other char- 

 acters may be found which will prove that it is not really the same as 

 »S. Schwenlcii, T and B. 



2. SwiNTONiA PioNANGiANA, King n. sp. A tall tree : young 

 branches slender, glaucous. Leaves coi-iaoeous, oblong-lanceolate, rarely 

 ovate- lanceolate, tapering from the middle to the shortly bluntly acumi- 

 nate apex and to the cuneate base; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spread- 

 ing, faint on botli surfaces, the reticulations obsolete : length 3 to 4*5 

 in., breadth 1*1 to I '4 in ; petiole '75 to 1"25 in., slender, but slightly 

 thickened near the base. Panicles axillary and terminal, as long as or 

 longer than the leaves, pedunculate, slender, glabrous : the branches 

 lax, spreading, the flowers in ultimate cymules of about three, i lowers 

 *15 in. long; their pedicels slender, longer than themselves. Calyx 

 narrowly campaTiulate, with 5 broad subtrunoate sub-ciliate lobes. Petals 

 5, longer than the calyx, snb-eiect, oblong, obtuse, minutely tomentose, 

 with glabrous margins. Stamens 5 ; the anthers elliptic, dorsifixed, 

 the filaments slender. Disc thin, cylindric. Ovary obliquely ovoid, 

 pubescent, tapering into the short sub-terminal style ; stigma rather 

 large for the genus. Drupe ijlobiilar, glabrous, smooth, "5 in. in diam., 

 the reflexed accrescent petals narrowly oblong, sub-acute, about 1"35 in. 

 long and '3 in. wide, glabiescent. • 



Penang : Curtis, No. 1579. 



A species allied to S. florihnnda. Griff., but with shorter panicles, 

 and globular not oblong, fruit. The leaves of this moreover are more 

 coriaceous and have fewer nerves than these of S- Jlorihnmla. 



3. SwiNXONiA SPiciFERA, Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. If, 27. A lofty 

 tree : young branches smooth, reddish when fresh. Lenves coi-iaceous, 

 oblanceolate or elliptic-obovate, the apex sub-acute or obtuse, the ba.«?e 

 attenuate-cuneate ; upper surface shining, not reticulate, the lower pale 

 brown when dry and glaucous : main nerves 13 to 20 pairs, obsolete on 

 the upper and only slightly prominent on the lower surface, spreading, 

 slightly curved; length 325 to 45 in , breadtli 1-5 to 1*75 in. ; petiole 

 •6 to 1*25 in. Panicles ciowded near the ends of the branches, long- 

 pedunculate, exceeding the leaves ; the branchlets articulate; corymbosely 

 ci-owded and trichotomously branched, angled, puberulous. Flowers 2 in. 

 long, each on a pubescent pedicel embraced by a broadly-ovate 

 concave puberulous bracteole. Calyx fleshy, tubular, with 5 deep 

 quadrate segments, puberulous outside, glabrous inside. Petals 5, twice 

 as long as the calyx, thick, obovate-obloug, obtuse, concave, shortly 

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