^^ Flora of Hie Malayan Penivsula. 



or sometimes hifirl. Cymes varying, always pedunculate, laxly tricho- 

 tomous, or in var. 2 densely crowded, 3 or 4 in. across (much less in 

 var. 2) the brandies cinereous-pubeiulous. Flowers crowded, shortly 

 pedicellate, glabrous. | about '5 in. long, (longer in vars.). Calyx under 

 •1 in. loijg, with 4 blunt teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla-tube 

 cylindric, slender, '35 in. long, (longer in vars. 2 and 4), the limb with 

 4 broad blant oblong reflexed lobes -15 in. long : stigma narrowly clavate 

 in bud. Fruit broadly fusiform, smooth. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 143. 

 I. ellij^tica, Br. in Wall. Cat. 6153. 



Malacca: Griffith; Maingay (K.D.) 843. Penang: Wallich 6153. 

 VEKkK: King's Collector 4ilQ, ^OQ'i, 4756; Scortechini 1368. — Distrib. 

 Nicobars, Kurz. 



A very variable species of which the following forms may be distinguished. 

 The corolla is white. 



vak. J gigantea, King & Gamble. A tall tree, leaves very coriace- 

 ous, elliptic, obtuse at base and apex, 7 to 10 in. long and 3 to 5 in. 

 broad ; cymes (including their peduncles) 3 to 7 in. long, with spreading 

 puberulous branches ; corolla about '5 in. long. 



Penang : Curtis, 3384. Singapore: Ridley, 4120. Perak : Wray 

 2973, 3678, 3971; King's Collector 5609, 5466, 10294. Andamans : 

 Heinig 22. 



This mny be separable as a species. More specimens (in flower) are wanted. 

 VAR. 2 coriacea, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 143 (excl. syn. I. macrO' 

 sipJion) ; leaves very coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, 

 sub-acute, the base cuneate ; length 8 to 10 in.; breadth 2*5 to 3 in.; 

 cymes (including their peduncles) 3 in. long or less. CoroZZa about "6 

 in. long. I. coriacea, Br. in Wall. Cat. 6151. 



Penang and Singapore : Wallich ; Curtis 2486. Malacca : Griffith 

 in Herb. Wight, (K.D.) 2999; Maingay (K.D) 844. Perak : Wray 

 2140, 2626; Ki7ig's Collector 5935. Pahang : Ridley 2213.— Distkib. 

 Andaman Islands. 



Tlieie is in Herb. Calcutta a single specimen (in flower only) collected by Ridley 

 in Pahang (Heib. Ridley 2213) which in most of its characters resembles this. The 

 tpxtnre of the leaves and their nervation are however slightly different, and the 

 flowers are somewhat longer and in less spreading cymes. 



VAK 3 arborescens, Hook. fil. I.e. ; branches thinner than a goose- 

 quill, the bark very pale ; leaves sub-coriaceous, only 4 to 6 in. long, and 

 from 2 to 2*5 in. broad; sub-obtuse at the apex and broadly rounded at 

 the base, the petiole only "3 to "4 in. long; cymes (including peduncle) 

 3 to 7 in. long, the bianclies long and spreading: corolla little more than 

 •5 in. long. I arborescens, Hassk. in Retzia I. 22. 



Malacca: Griffith Herb. Wight, (K.D.) 2987; Derry, 310, 571; 



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