504 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Petals 5, thick, oblong, obtuse, longer than the calyx, pubescent outside, 

 villous inside. Stamens nearly as long as the petals, tlie filaments stout. 

 Female floweh not seen. Drupe elliptic to sub-globose, ferruginous- 

 pubescent, orange-yellow when ripe, 1 to 15 in. in length. Hook. fil. Ic. 

 Plant, t. 1292, 1293 ; Engler in DC. Mon. Phan. IV, 470. 



Malacca : Maingay, No. 1428. — Distrib. Java (Jide Engler) : 

 Zollinger, No. 800. 



3. Melanochyla Kdnstleri, King n. sp. A tree 80 to 100 feet 

 high : young branches as thick as a quill, lenticellate and with deciduous 

 sparse rusty pubescence. Leaves very coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, some- 

 times oblanceolate-oblong, tapering to each end, shortly acuminate ; the 

 edges with a shining cartilaginous thickening, slightly recurved when 

 dry ; upper surface glabrous, shining, not reticulate, the midrib promi- 

 nent; lower surface paler, glaucescent, the midrib and 18 to 20 pairs of 

 prominent spreading main nerves with adpressed brown hairs ; length 

 275 to 5 in., breadth 1 to 1*5 in. ; petiole '35 in., slightly scurfy. Pani- 

 cles terminal, twice as long as the leaves, minutely rusty-tomentose, 

 with numerous short spreading racemose branches. Maib flowfps "15 

 in. long, on pedicels shorter than themselves. Calyx coriaceous, minutely 

 tomentose outside, cupular, deeply divided into 5 broadly-ovate acute 

 slightly-spreading segments. Petals 5, thi'ice as long as the calyx- 

 segments, narrowly elliptic, blunt, pubescent on the outer surface, 

 densely villous on the inner sui^face, the margins only glabrous. 

 Stamens 5, much shorter than the petals ; the anther narrowly ovate, 

 the filament subulate, slightly villous. Ovary 0. Female flowees and 

 drupe unknown. 



Perak : King's Collector, No. 6810. 



The nearest ally of this is M. Maingayi, from which, however, this 

 may be distinguished by the smaller leaves more shining on the upper 

 surface, and by the adpressed brown hairs on the under sui-face of the 

 midrib and nerves. 



4. Melanochyla Maingayi, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 39. A tree : 

 young branches slender, scurfy-puberulous. Leaves very coriaceous, 

 oblong-oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic-oblong, abruptly and shortly 

 acuminate, tapering in the lower two-thirds to the short channelled 

 petiole ; upper surface glabrous, faintly reticulate, shining, the midrib 

 very prominent ; lower surface slightly pubescent; main nerves 18 to 

 24 pairs, spreading, prominent on the lower surface, only slightly so on 

 the upper: length 5 to 8 in,, breadth 1 25 to 2-25. ; petiole "5 or '6 in. 

 Panicle terminal, longer than the leaves, rusty-toraentose ; the branches 

 spreading, rather short ; the ultimate branchlets cymose, about 3- 

 flowered. Male flowebs about '1 in. in diam., on short stout pedicels 



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