.404 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



iselrnlate, pale when dry ; nerves 8 to 10 pairs, slightly prGminent below ; 

 length 4 to 6 in., breadth I'S to 2"5 in., petiole "2 to "4 in.; stipules 

 scarious, pale, ovate-acute, striate, puberulous, '25 in. long. Racemes 

 terminal, 4 to 6 in. long, bearing numerous 2- to 5-flowered cymules ; bracts 

 broadly ovate, scarious, concave, striate. Sepals ovate, ciliolate. Petals 

 oblong, obtuse, the apex undulate, erose or toothed, edges ciliolate. Sta- 

 mens from the edge of a deep fleshy disc ; filaments very sliort, glabrous ; 

 anthers ovate, with a broadly ovate appendage from the middle of the 

 back curving over the apex, the cells divergent at the apex and each with 

 a subulate terminal appendage. Ovary sessile, glabrou.s, globose ; 

 Style cylindric, with a few white adpressed hairs ; stigma obliquely 

 truncate, cup-shaped. Capsules ovoid, bluntly angled, glabrtms, reti- 

 culate, '75 in. long; valves blunt; seeds globose with an ovoid beaked 

 hilum, pale, smooth. 



Perak, at low elevations. King's Collector. 



Var. Iiirsut {flora. King. Sepals tomentose externally ; filaments 

 Sparsely villous ; disc small ; the cymules larger and the bracteoles 

 longer and nanower than in the typical form. 

 Perak ; Cliangkat Jerin, L. Wray, junior. 



Tlie wliole plant when dried Las a characteristic grey colour, and 

 from this circumstance 1 have given its specific name. 



Sect. II. Pentaloha. Anthers with a broad, usually terminal, ap- 

 pendage from the connective ; but none from th*^ cells. 



8. A. LANCEOLATA, Wall. (Pentaloha) Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. ]88, 

 All parts, except the inflorescence, quite glabioua ; bark of the young 

 branches pale. Leaves shortly petiolate, elongate-lanceolate, bluntly 

 acuminate, the base much narrowed; nerves 9 to 12 pairs, sub-erect; 

 slightly cuived, prominent especially below, secondary venation trans- 

 verse ; lengtli 5 to 8 in., breadth 1*25 to 1"75 in., petiole '2 in. Bucemes 

 al)out '5 in. long, 4- to 6-flowered, minutely bracteolate. Flowers on short 

 pubescent pedicels. Sepals ovate, obtuse, thick, pubescent, about half as 

 long as the petals. Petals lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely villous towards 

 the middle. Filaments as long as the anthers, slender, glabrous, rising 

 from a small glabrous disc; anthers linear-lanceolate with a single 

 lanceolate terminal appendage. Ovary rudimentary in many flowers, 

 sub-globose and, like the cylindric style, villous. Fruit sub-globose, 

 minutely pubescent, "35 in. long, valves in dehiscence beaked. Oudem. 

 in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat iii. 68. Vareca lanceolata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 i. 648. Pent, lanceolata, Arn. in Jard. j\1a<r. Zoo. Bot. ii. 644. 

 Penang ; Wallich, Stolickza, Curtis, King's Collector. 

 A shrub 6 to 8 feet high ; apparently confined to Penang. This 

 species is much more fi'equeutly truly iiermaphrodite than some of 

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