304* Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



GriflB.th.'8 original specimens, to which he gave the MSS. name P. Ixte-virens, 

 have smaller leaves and more ovoid fruit on shorter pedicels than any specimens 

 subsequently collected. But in other respects they agi*ee with specimens more 

 recently collected in Perak and Penan;^. 



8. PoLTOSMA VELUTiNA, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 261. A 

 small tree ; young braucbes stout, deciduously tomentose. leaves coria- 

 ceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sometimes slightly obovate, sub-acute 

 or obtuse, the base cuneate ; the edges entire, revolute when dry ; upper 

 surface at first with a few scattered adpiessod hairs, glabrous when old 

 except tbe pubescent depressed midrib and main nerves ; lower surface 

 covered with soft velvety yellowisli tomentum ; main nerves 9-12 

 pairs, prominent on the lower surface only ; length 4-7*5 in., breadth 

 l'75-325 in., petiole 'B-l'S in. Raceme terminal, about one and a half 

 times as long as the leaves, stout, densely yellowish-tomentose like the 

 calyx. Fluivers '4 in. long, their pedicels rather over '1 in., with 3 

 narrow unequal adpressed bracteoles. Calyx-tube tomentose ; its teeth 

 triangular, acute. Petals narrowly linear, sub-acute, slightly longer 

 than the stamens, much longer than the calyx ; the filaments slightly 

 villous in front, about equal to the anthers. Fruit ovoid, with a broad 

 sub-truncate base, and with an apiculus formed by the remains of the 

 base of the style, boldly 4- ridged, sparsely and deciduously strigose, '4 

 in. long and *3 in. in diam. at the base; the pedicel '2 in.; endocarp 

 woody, deeply 4-grooved. 



Penang ; Curtis 1165 ; King's Collector 1352. Perak ; ScortecMui 

 2111 ; King's Collector 3685, 4362. Distrib. Sumatra, Java. 



I identify the Penang and Perak plants with Blume's P. velutina by description 

 only ; for I have seen no authentic specimen of that species. The deep vertical 

 ridging of the endocarp is noted of no other described species except P. mutabilis, 

 Bl., and I think my identification is correct. 



9. PoLYOSMA RiDLEYi, King n. spec. A tree ; young branches 

 densely and minutely tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly-elliptic, 

 caudate-acuminate, the edges entire and slightly revolute when dry, the 

 base cuneate ; upper surface when young sparsely adpressed-pubescent, 

 when adult glabrous and shining; lower surface covered with dense 

 yellowish tomentum ; main nerves 9-11 pairs, spreading, curving and 

 interarching, rather prominent on the lower surface, the intermediate 

 nerves almost as prominent ; length 6-6 5 in., breadth 2-25 in. ; petiole 

 1-1'75 or even 2 in., tomentose. Raceme terminal, stout, shorter than 

 the leaves, densely covered with pale yellowish or whitish tomentum 

 like the calyx and petals. Flowers "4 in. long, their pedicels "1 in., with 

 3 equal lanceolate bracteoles on the same level. Calyx-tuhe shorter 

 than the pedicel, wide ; the teeth broad, shallow. Petals much longer 

 than the calyx, linear, blunt, villous in front. Stamens nearly as long 



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