292 Materiah for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



glabrous except sometimes the midrib pubescent ; lower surface with 

 f parse short adpressed hairs, the midrib and main nerves pubescent ; 

 main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, oblique, not curved, very prominent on the 

 lower, faint on the upper surface ; length 2*5-3*5 in., breadth 1-6-2 in., 

 petiole •3-"4 in. Racemes from 'SS-l'S in. long, solitary or several to- 

 gether from the axils of fallen leaves, tomentose ; bracts broad, obtuse, 

 tomentose, (subglabrous in var, densa). Flowers '1 in. long, sub-sessile. 

 Calijx-tuhe campanulate, with 6 obtuse short villous teeth. Stamens 

 about 18, exserted, glabrous. Pistil as long as the stamens, ovary villous. 

 Style sparsely pubescent especially towards the base ; stigma capitate, 

 discoid, grooved. Fruit slightly broader than long, compressed, sparsely 

 adpressed-pubescent, subglabrous when old, '25 in. long and. '3 in. broad. 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Vol. 1, pt. I, 361 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 320. 

 P. arhoreum^ Endl. Gen. PI. 1250, in part. Polydontia arhorea, Blame 

 Bijdr. 1105. Polystorthia, Blume Fl. Javae Praef. VIII, in part. 



Malacca ; Ridley 1872. Penang ; Curtis 162. Perak ; King's 

 Collector 7236, and 10827 ; Curtis 1293. Distrib. Java, Borneo. 



Var. densa ; racemes not much longer than the petioles, the flowers 

 much crowded and quite sessile, densely covered with pale tomentum ; 

 bracts very broad, subglabrous. 



Perak ; Kings Collector 6986, 10195, 10396, 10753. 

 It is possible that this variety ought to be treated as a epecies. 

 11. Ptgeum OVALIFOLIUM, King n. spec. A small tree 15-20 feet high ; 

 young branches with rather rough cinereous bark, deciduously rusty- 

 pubescent. Leaves oval or broadly ovate ; the apex obtuse, obliquely and 

 minutely emarginate ; the base rounded and eglandular ; upper surface 

 shining, minutely punctate and rugulose, the midrib convex and rusty- 

 pubescent ; lower surface dull, minutely pubescent, with adpressed 

 bristles intermixed, the midrib tomentose ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, 

 spreading, slightly depressed on the upJDer and slightly prominent on 

 the lower surface when dry; length 1*75-2"15 in,, breadth 1-1'5 in., 

 petiole *3-*4 in. Racemes axillary, stout, from 3- 5in. long, few-flowers- 

 ed, densely rusty-tomentose ; bracts obliquely ovate, very concave, 

 glabrous inside, densely tomentose outside. Flowers '2 in. long, and 3 

 in. wide at the mouth, sessile. Calyx-tube campanulate, densely tomen- 

 tose outside, glabrous inside except at the base ; the mouth with 10 

 oblong obtuse teeth. Petals none. Stamens about 30 or 40, glabrous, 

 much exserted, spreading. Pistil shorter than the stamens ; the ovary 

 narrowly ovoid, sericeous ; style stout, subglabrous ; stigma obliquely 

 discoid. Fruit subglobose with a slight vertical groove and shortly 

 apiculate apex, sparsely strigose, "35 in. in diam. 



Perak ; at an elevation of about 5000 feet, King's Collector 7329. 

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