180 Mattriah for a Flora oj the Malayan Peninsula. 



much narrowed at the base, edge slightly thickened, upper surface shin- 

 ing, the mid lib prominent on the rather dull lower surface, nerves rather 

 bold and equally promiuent on both ; length 5 to 10 in., bi'eadth 2 to 3 

 in., petiole 1 to 1'25 in. Racemes not half the length of the leaves, 

 axillary, solitary, 6-JO-flowered, minutely feri-uginous-puberulous. 

 Flowers 1 in. in diara.; pedicels 1 to 1'25 in. Sepals 4, the outer pair 

 puberulous externally ; the inner pair larger, imbricate, oblong-rotund, 

 orbicular, concave, rusty, obtuse, petaloid. Petals 4, smaller than the 

 inner sepals, oblauceolate, clawed. Stamens short. Fruit {fide Maiugay) 

 ellipsoid, "5 in. long. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 174). Perak; King's Collector, 

 No. 8851. 



17. Calophyllum venustdm, King, n. sp. A glabrous tree, 20 to 

 30 feet high. Leaves thinly coriaceous, shining, rigid, elliptic-ovate, 

 retuse, the base cuneate, the margin thickened ; nerves rather distant for 

 the genus and equally distinct on both surfaces ; length 1'75 to 3 in., 

 breadth 1 to 1'5 in., petiole 3 to "4 in. Racemes 3-5-flowered, solitary, 

 axillary, half as long as the leaves, very lax, spreading. Floivers large 

 ("5 in. in diam. ), on long ("75 in.) pedicels; buds ovoid. Sepals 4, more 

 or less orbicular. Petals 4 to 6, narrower than the sepals, the inner 

 oblong, veined, all obtuse. Fruit unknown. 



Perak ; King's Collector, No. 7763. 



A very handsome species of which the fruit is unknown. In leaf 

 it resembles C. amoenuniy but differs greatly in the flowers. 



3. Kayea, Wall. 



Trees. Leaves opposite ; veins rather distant, arched. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite, either large and solitary, or small and collected in ter- 

 minal panicles. Sepals and petals 4 each, imbricate. Stamens numer- 

 ous ; filaments slender, free or connate at the base ; anthers small, sub- 

 globose, 2-celled, dehiscence vertical. Ovary 1-celled ; style slender, 

 stigma acutely 4-fid ; ovules 4, erect. Fruit subdrupaceous, fleshy, in- 

 dehiscent, 1-5-seeded. Seeds thick, testa thin and crustaceous. — Uistrib. 

 Tropical Asia, 7 species. 

 Flowers in racemes. 



Racemes 2 to 3 in. long ; flowers 1 in. 



or more in diam. ... ... J. K. Wrayi. 



Racemes less than 1 in. long ; flowers 



less than 1 in. in diam. ... 2. K. racemusa. 



Flowers solitary, axillary. 



Nervation of leaves bold, distinct. 

 120 



