3S6^ Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Perak. Father Scortechini. 



Collected only by Scortechini who left a MS. description of it' un- 

 der the name Wormia apetala. But, as that name is pre-occupied by a 

 species of Gaudichand, I have rechristened it after its lamented 

 discoverer. In his description Father Scortechini says that, although he 

 opened many buds, he never could find any trace of petals. In stamens 

 this agrees with the Enwormia aeotion oi Wormia : but whether it is 

 really a Wormia and not a Billenia cannot be settled until ripe fruit is 

 found. 



Species of which flowers are unknown. 



6. W. Kdnstleki, King, n. sp. Young branches thick, rugose, 

 pubescent. Leaves on channelled petioles, obovate-oblong, bluTit, the base 

 narrowed, slightly sinuate-crenate, glabrous except the pubescent midrib 

 and 38 to 22 pairs of nerves ; length of blade 6 to 8 in., breadth 3'5 fo 4 

 in. ; petiole nearly 2 in. Cymes leaf-opposed, few-tlowered, tomentose ;. 

 peduncles about 1 in. Sepals broadly ovate, glabrous, thick. Young 

 seeds arillate. 



Perak. King's Collector No. 5905. The only specimens have 

 unripe fruit. 



5. DiLLENiA, Linn. 



Characters of Wormia except that the flowers are more often solitary 

 and are sometimes white ; the carpels are rather more numerous, are 

 never dehiscent, cohere in the axis, and are enveloped in the thickened 

 accrescent calyx, while the seeds are exarillate. 



1. D. INDICA, Linn. A tree ; the young branches tomentose. 

 Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, coriaceous, lanceolate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, sharply serrate, glabrous above, pubescent beneath 

 especially on the 30 to 40 pairs of stout nerves ; length of blade 8 to 12 in., 

 breadth 3 to 4 in., petiole I to 1"5 in., channelled, sheathing at the base. 

 Flowers 6 to 9 in. in diam., solitary, axillary, on short tomentose pedicels 

 2 to 3 in. long. Sepals orbicular, concave, fleshy. Petals white, obovate- 

 oblong, undulate. Inner stamens longer than the outer and arching 

 over them. Pistils about 20 ; the stigmas lanceolate, recurved, radiating. 

 Carpels l-celled with many reniform hairy seeds. Ham. Linn. Trans. 

 XV, 99 ; H. f. and Th. Fl. Ind. I. 69 ; Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 86 ; Mai-telli in 

 Malesia III, 154. D. speciosa, Thunbg. Linn. Trans, i, 200 ; DC. Prod, i, 

 76 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 661 ; W. & A. Prod. 5 ; Wight Ic. 823 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. Vol. I, Pt. ii, 11. D. elliptica, Thunbg. Linn. Trans. 1, 2U0. 



Tropical Forests of the Indo-Malayan Region. Distrib. India, Ceylon, 



2. D. OVATA, Wall. A tree, the branchlets as thick as a quill, soft- 

 ly tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, ovate or obovate-rotund, apex eub- 



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