280 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Perak; King's Collector 6145, 10326. 



This approaches P. costatum, Bl. in the shape and nervation of its loaves ; but 

 ia difltingaishpd from that species by its spieate inflorescence and solitary flowers. 

 Its fruit also is more orbicular than that of P. costaticm. 



5. Partnaridm Maingayi, King n. spec. A tree ; young branches 

 with dnrk bark bearing a few oblong lenticels, glabrous. Leaves very 

 coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, very shortly and obtusely acuminate, the 

 base rounded ; both suifaces glabrous and with minntely papillate 

 reticulations, the upper shining, the lower dull and rather pale ; main 

 nerves 10-12 pairs, spreading, curving, ratl^er prominent beneath ; 

 length 3-4*5 in, breadth 135-2 in.; petiole '3 in., stout. Spikes 

 usually in pairs, axillary, shorter than the leaves, pedunculate, minufely 

 tomentose. FJoivers sessile, '3 in. long, or (to tlie apex of the stamens) 

 •6 in. ; bracts shorter than the caly.^-tube, broadly ovate obtuse, tomen- 

 tose. Calyx-tuhe infandibuliform, tomentose outside, deflexed- villous 

 inside ; the lobes short, broad, rounded very obtuse. Petals longer 

 than the calyx-lobes, obovate, sessile, glaberulous. Stamens 12-16, 

 much longer than the petals, decurved. Ovary densely wooly ; stylo 

 long, slender. Drupe spherical, the size of a small apple (Hooker) ; 

 the pericarp thick and bony, smooth on the inner surface, furrowed 

 on one side. Seed large, with a thin texta. P. aspertdum, Hook. fil. 

 in Fl. Br. Ind. II, 310 (7iot of Miq.) 



Malacca; Maingay 618, and probably also Griffith 201'9. 



This in gome respects resembles P. asperulnm and P. scnhrftm, but differs from 

 both in its much larger fruit and sessile flowers, and from the former also in the 

 venation of its leaves. 



6. Parinarium elatum. King n. spec. A tree 60-120 feet high ; 

 young branches as thick as a quill, blackish-cinereous, lenticellate. 

 Leaves thickly coriaceou'^, subsessile, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, acute or 

 shortly acuminate ; the base broad, rounded or minutely cordate ; upper 

 surface glabrous, shining, the main nerves and midrib slightly promi- 

 nent ; lower surface darker and duller than the upper when dry, glab- 

 rous except a few strigose hairs at the ba«e of the very prominent 

 midrib ; the 12-14 pairs of spreading curved main nerves very promi- 

 nent ; length 4-5-7'5 in., breadth l-5-3*25 in. ; petiole only about -15 in., 

 strigose. Panicles axillary, solitary or several together, shorter than the 

 leaves, with few short rather distant branches, or unbranohed, minutely 

 tomentose, few-flowered; bracts 2 at the base of each flower, slightly 

 shorter than the calyx-tube, elliptic, acute, adpressed-pubescent. Galyjc- 

 tuhe funnel-shaped, adpressed- tomentose outside, deflcxed-villous inside 

 at the mouth ; the lobes unequal, nearly as long as the tube, broadly 

 ovate, subacute, very tomentose on both surfaces. Petals longer and 



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