140 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



secondary nerves and minute reticulations distinct ; length 9 to 14 in., 

 breadth 2'5 to 3*25 in., petiole "75 to 1 in. Flowers 4 in. long, their 

 pedicels longer than the calyx. Panicles axillary, few-branched, 3 to 

 6 in. long. Sepals neai-ly equal, broadly ovate, fleshy with thin edges, 

 puberulous. Petals oblong, obtuse, glabrescent, the keel pubescent. 

 Filaments flat, puberulous. Ovary surrounded by a shallow glabrous 

 wavy disc, ovoid, minutely tomentose, grooved, 4-ovuled; style pubes- 

 cent, slightly curved. Fruit globose with a conical apex, deeply rugose, 

 verrucose ; diam., "35 in. (young). 



Perak, King's Collector; Nos. 10614 and 10804. 



Ripe fruit of this is unknown. This species, in leaf characters, 

 approaches the Bornean X. cordatum, Korth. ; but the fruit of that is 

 smooth ; of this the fruit is deeply corrugiited-rugose as in. X. Palem- 

 hanicum and eurhynclitim. 



12. Xanthophylldm stipitatum, a. "W. Benn. in Hook. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I. 210. A tree with slender, smooth, brown branches. Leaves sub- 

 coriaceous, ovate or elliptic, shortly and obtusely caudate-acuminate; 

 upper surface dull, tlie nerves obsolete ; lower shining, the 3 to 4 pairs 

 of nerves indistinct ; length 1"75 to 2"25 in., breadth 'Ih to 1 in., petiole 

 '15 in. Racemes slender, axillary, longer than the leaves, pubescent. 

 Flowers "4 in. long, shorter than their slender pedicels. Sepals sub- 

 equal, oblong, obtuse, glabrescent. Petals twice as long as sepals, 

 spathulate, oblong. Pilnments thickened and haiiy in their lower 

 half. Ovary stipitate, cottony; style sparsely hairy ; ovules 8 to 10. 



Malacca. 



Hitherto known only by specimens from Malacca ; fruit not col- 

 lected. 



13. Xanthophyllum Scortechinii, King, n. sp. A tall glabrous 

 tree. Leaves thinly coriaceous, di yiug brown, ovate, obtusely acuminate, 

 the base slightly cuneate, shining on both surfaces ; nerves 3 pairs, sub- 

 erect, not prominent; lengtli 2 to 22.5 in , breadth I in., petiole "35 in. 

 Flotcers handsome, '6 in. long, their pedicels 'ob in. Racemes axillary, 

 solitary, "2 in. long, few-flowered. Sepals fleshy, glabrous with ciliolate 

 edges; the three outer ovate blunt, the two inner rotund. Petals broad- 

 ly obovate, clawed, glabrescent, the keel pubescent. Filaments as long 

 as the petals, flat, pubescent; anthers short, ovate. Ovary shortly 

 stalked, elongated-ovoid, ridged, glabrous, 6-ovulod ; style little curved, 

 glabrous ; stigma capitate ; disc small, annular, glabrous. 



Perak; Father Scortechini, No. 2079. 



Of this distinct and handsome species fruit is as yet unknown. 

 J4. Xanthophylldm ellipticum, Kortli. in Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. 

 Bat. I, 276. A glabrous tree 30 to 60 feet high ; branchlets slender, 

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