MateriaU for a Flora of the Malayan Pminsiild. SOS 



Young branches glabroiis, panicles pubes- 

 cenfc-tomentose (not felted), flowers more 

 than -1 in. long ... ... ... 9. M. nitida. 



1. Melanochyla densiflora, King n. sp. A tree 60 to 100 feet 

 high ; young branches stout, covered with short rusty deciduous tomen- 

 -.tum. Leaves very coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, sometimes slightly obovate, 

 subacute, somewliat narrowed to tlie rounded slightly unequal base ; 

 upper surface glabxx>usj not reticulate, the midrib and nerves slightly 

 depressed when dry ; lower surface densely and minutely rusty tomen- 

 tose, the midiib very prominent as are the 20 to 25 pairs of strong sub- 

 horizontal main nerves ; length 6 to 85 in., breadth 2-5 to 3'5 in. ; petiole 

 •65 to 1 in., thickened and channelled near the base. Panicle terminal, 

 condensed, shorter than the leaves, branched from the base, every- 

 where rusty-tomentose ; bianches numerous, the branchlets racemulose 

 and beai'ing the flowers in ultimate sub-sessile crowded cymules. 

 Mali; FLOWERS -2 in; long, sessile ; iwd* ovoid, gibbous near the basei 

 Calyx fleshy, campaiiulate, rusty-tomentose externally with 5 triangular 

 Bub-acute sub-erect segments. Petals 5, twice as long as the calyx-teeth, 

 erect, thick, elliptic, obtuse, tomentose along the midrib externally, the 

 edges glabrous, but with a tuft of coarse hairs along the lower part of 

 the midrib. Stamens 5, shorter than the petals, anthers elliptic ; filaments 

 compressed, densely villous in front, about as long as the anthers ; disc 

 small, slightly convex, villous in the middle ; ovai-y 0. Femjlle flowes 

 and drupe unknown. 



Pei-ak : King's Collector, Nos. 5615 and 5626i 



A species allied to M. tomentosa., Hook. fil. ; but at once distinguished 

 from that by its denser panicles, larger and more numerous flowers. 

 This is also much more haii-y on the under surface of the leaves than if. 

 tortientosa. Female flowers and fruit are still unknown, 



2. Melanochyla tomentosa. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 38. A 

 tree : young branches rather slender, densely rufous-tomentose. Leaves 

 coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, sometimes slightly obovate, shortly and 

 sharply acuminate^ the base rounded but slightly narrowed ; upper 

 surface quite glabrous except the pubescent base of the midrib ; lower 

 surface reticulate, glabrescent, pale when dry, the midrib and nerves 

 more or less rufous-pubescent like the petiole : main nerves 20 to 30 paii'S 

 spreading, prominent on the lower surface ; length 65 to 14 in., breadth 

 275 to 4 in. ; petiole "35 in., stout, rufous-pubescent. Panicles terminal, 

 about as long as the leaves, the main axis rufous-tomentose ; thebranehes 

 slender, distant, sub-erect, pnberulous, spike-like, bearing the flowers in 

 distant sub-sessile cymules. Matt. flowehS about "1 in. in diam. Calyx 

 with 5 deep unequal ovate cpncave segments, pnberulous externally. 



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