Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsida. 9 



apex caudate-acuminate ; both surfaces glabrous, tbe upper shining ; the 

 lower dull, minutely reticulate ; main nerves 4 pairs, curved, ascending, 

 prominent on the lower surface; length 45 to 7 in., breadth 1'25 to 2 

 in., petiole '1 to '\b in. Cymes axillary, very short, tawny-tomentose. 

 Calyx thick ; the lobes deep, ovate, obtuse, cinereous-tomentose. Petals 

 slightly longer than the calyx, membranous. Follicles cinereous-tomen- 

 tose, obliquely elliptic, sub-compressed, grooved along the suture, almost 

 straight, the apex rather blunt with an abrupt small apiculus , the base 

 slightly and suddenly contracted into a short stout pseudo-stalk covered 

 by the persistent caljx ; length '5 in., breadth '3 in. ; pericarp thick, 

 glabrous inside. Seed oblong with a large hilum and thin arillus. 

 Perak ; Scortechini No. 607. 



Gathered only by the late Father Scortechini whose specimens are in fruit, and 

 from whose field notes the foregoing description of the flower has been taken. 



2. Ellipanthds calophyllus, Kurz Andam. Report, Append. B. 6. 

 A small tree; young branches slender, glabrous. Leaflet coriaceous, 

 elliptic to elliptic-ovate, sometimes oblong-lanceolate, shortly caudate- 

 acuminate, the base rounded or slightly and abruptly cuneate ; both 

 surfaces glabrous ; the upper shining when dry ; the lower dull, minute- 

 ly reticulate ; main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, spreading, curving upwards, inter- 

 arching freely ; length 4*5 to 6*5 in., breadth 2 to 225 in. ; petiole -75 to 

 1 in., the joint near the apex. Cymes axillary, shorter than the petioles, 

 minutely tawny-tomentose. Flowers '3 in. long, on pedicels shorter 

 than themselves. Calyx lohes broadly ovate, sub-acute, tawny-tomentose 

 outside, less than half as long as the linear-oblong densely velvetty 

 obtuse petals. iS^amens the 5 perfect shorter than the petals and with 

 very pubescent filaments ; the 5 abortive much shorter and more slender, 

 anantherous. Ovary narrowly ovoid, sericeous. Style rather short, 

 stigma sub-capitate. Follicles obovoid or ellipsoid, slightly compressed, 

 blunt, rusty-tomentose, 1 in. long ; pericarp thick, woody, glabrous with- 

 in : Kurz Joum. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, Pt. II, 305 ; For. Flora Burma I, 

 329; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. TI, 55. 



Andaman Islands ; Kurz, King's Collectors. 



3. Ellipanthds Cdrtisii, King n. spec. A tree ; young branches 

 rusty-puberulous, the bark dark. Leaflet thinly coriaceous, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, tapering to each end, the apex caudate-acuminate ; upper surface 

 glabrous, shining ; the lower reticulate, sparsely pubescent, the midrib 

 tomentose ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, curving obliquely upwarde, promi- 

 nent beneath ; length 2'5 to 3*5 in., breadth -8 to 1*5 in., petiole '3 in., 

 tomentose. Panicles axillary, branching from the base, '5 to "7 in. lono", 

 sericeous. Flowers '2 in. long, on pedicels shorter than themselves. 

 Segments of the calyx ovate-lanceolate, thick, tomentose on the outer, 



9 



