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



20; fiUrnents equal, not compressed ; anthers innate. Pistil as long as 

 the stamens; pynophore sliorter tlian the glabrous, 2-celled, ovoid ovary. 

 Stigmas 3, globular, minute. Fruit unkuovvu. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. lud. i. 

 409. 



Perak ; Kinsj's Collector, No. 1611. Distrib. Burmah. 



2. K. ScoRTECHlNli, King, n. sp Scandent, glalirous except the 

 minutely pubescent inflorescence and sepals. Leaves membranous, ellip- 

 tic or obovate-elliptic, shortly and }tl)ruptly acuminate, narrowed to the 

 base ; upper surface shining ; tiie lower pale, the midrib and 6 pairs of 

 arching main nerves promitient ; length of blade 55 to 65 in., breadth 

 3 in. ; petiole \'2o in., thickened in the upper half and bent in the middle. 

 Flowers in terminal or axillary panicles or racemes, shortly pedicellate, 

 '25 in. in diam. Sepals 6, slightly imbricate in bud, united at their bases, 

 linear-oblnng, sub-acute, minutely tomentose on both surfaces, reHexed. 

 Stamens 30 ; the filaments unequal, slender, compressed, united by tlieir 

 bases; anthers innate. Pistil as long as the stamens, the gynophore 

 shorter than the ovary, puberulous. Ovary glabrous. Style twice as 

 long as the ovary, cylindric ; stigmas 3, sessile, ovate, small, Bipe fruit 

 ovoid, smooch, yellow, \o in. long and 1 in. in diam. ; eudocarp mem- 

 branous. 



Perak; Scortechini, King's Collector, Nos. 8461 and 4225; in open 

 rocky places from 500 to 1200 feet. 



In his field note on No. 8464, the collector describes this as " a 

 splendid creeper 80 to 100 feet long "; iu that on No. 4225, he says, " a 

 tree 40 to 60 feet high." Fr. Scortechini's specimens have no notes. 

 From the flexuose appearance of the diied twigs, I believe this is a 

 creeper, and not a tree. This and tlie last belong to the section of 

 Roydsia characterised by having an undivided style, for which Sir J. D, 

 Hooker, (P. B. I. i. 409), proposes tlie sectional name of Alytostylis, but 

 with an expression of doubt as to whether it should not be separated 

 off as a genus. To this group belongs also tlie Pidlippine species 

 'B. Jloribnnda, Planch. An undescribed species from Burmah in the 

 Calcutta Herbarium (Gallatly No. 499; also falls into this section. 



5. Cratj:va, Linn. 

 Trees. Leaves 3-foliolate. Flowers large, yellow or purplish, poly- 

 gamous. Sepals 4, cohering below with the convex lobed disk. Petals 

 4, long-clawed, open iu bud. Stamens indefinite, adnate to the base of 

 the gynophore. Ovary on a slender stalk, 1-celled ; stigma sessile, 

 depressed ; ovules many, on 2 parietal placentas. Berry fleshy. Seeds 

 imbedded in pulp. — Distrib. Species about 6, tropical and cosmopolitan. 

 1. C. MACEOCAiiPA, Kurz iu Journ. Bob. 1874, p. 195, t. 14>S, figs. 8 to 



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