Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 365 



Sect. II. Euwormia. Filaments all erect and nearly equal in 

 length. 



3. W. PDLCHELLA, Jack Mai. Misc. ex Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. I, 

 221. A shrub. Young parts glabrous, ieares on short narrowly winged 

 petioles, obovate or obovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, truncate or retuse, 

 sometimes mucronate, thickly coriaceous, glabrous ; nerves 5 to 7 pairs ; 

 length of blade 2*5 to 4 in., breadth 1"5 to 2*5 in. ; petiole "76 in. Flowers 

 solitary or in small cymes, axillai'y or terminal, 2 in. in diam, ; pedicels 2 

 in. long. Sepals broadly ovate, glabrous. Petals ovate. Carpels about 

 5. Seeds few, with pulpy arillus. H. f. and Th. Fl. Ind. I, 68 ; Hook, 

 fil. FL Br. Ind. I, 36 ; Miq. Fl. Ind, Bat. Vol. I, Pt. ii, p. 11. 



Perak and Malacca ; at elevations under 1,000 feet. Distrib. Su- 

 matra. 



4. W. MELI0SM2EF0LIA, King, n. sp. A small tree, the young parts 

 and leaf-petioles softly fulvous-tomentose. Leaves crowded near the 

 apices of the branches, coriaceous, obovate-lanceolate to obovate-elliptic, 

 acute or acuminate, entire or minutely and remotely sei-rate, base 

 acute, glabrous above except the 14 to 18 pairs of spreading pubescent 

 nerves, under surface minutely tomentose ; length of blade 5 to 8 in., 

 breadth 3 to 4 in., petiole about 1 in. Floivers about 3 in. in diam., 

 axillary, solitary, on slender tomentose peduncles 2 in. long, or in few- 

 flowered linear-bracteolate cymes ; peduncles 1 in. long. Se2Jals ovate- 

 oblong, velvety-tomentose externally, glabrous internally. Petals ob- 

 lanceolate, pale yellow, veined, wavy. Stigmas about 12, linear, recurved. 

 Follicles with several compressed arillate seeds. Dillenia meliosmae- 

 folia, Hook. fil. & Th. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 36. 



Malacca, Perak. 



Originally described as a Dillenia by Sir Joseph Hooker who had 

 not seen the fruit. 



6. W. ScoBTECHiNii, King, n. sp. A tree 60 to 70 feet. Branchlets 

 thick, scarred, puberulous or glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, obovate-ob- 

 long, shortly acuminate, undulate-crenate, narrowed to the petiole ; upper 

 surface shining, glabrous except the midrib and nerves which are minute- 

 ly pubescent as is the under surface ; nerves prominent on the under 

 surface, 26-30 pairs, each ending on the margin of the leaf in a tuft of 

 hairs ; length of blade 4 to 6'6 in., breadth 2 to 3 ; petiole '5 to 2 in., winged 

 and expanded at the base. Cymes supra-axillary, sub-terminal, dicho- 

 tomous, pubescent ; bracteoles oblong, "3 in. long ; pedicels "25 in. long. 

 Flowers when expanded about 1 in. broad. Sepals 5, puberulous 

 externally, broadly ovate, coriaceous. Petals 0. Anthers equal in 

 length to the filaments, slightly hairy. Ovaries 3 to 5, usually 4. Ripe 

 fruit unknown. 



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