340 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsida. 



teeth, every part densely covered with brown scales externally. Petals 

 slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes, oblanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, erect. 

 Stamens 8, exserted. Fruit compressed, ovate, pointed at each end, 

 dark-brown when dry, with -i short wings, about 1"2 in. long and "6 in. 

 btoad on the compressed surfaces, the other two surfaces narrow and 

 grooved, all parts sparsely scaly. 



Perak ; sea- shore at Matang, Wray 2504. 



8. CoMBRETUM KuNSTLERF, King n. spec. A powerful climber ; 

 young shoots slender, terete, very slightly puberulous and with very 

 few scattered rusty hairs intermixed. Leaves opposite, narrowly ellip- 

 tic or elliptic-oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, slightly narrowed 

 to the minutely cordate base ; upper surface glabrous except the 

 minutely pubescent midrib, shining ; tlie lower dull, glabrous even on 

 the midrib ; main nerves 5-7 pairs, ascending, curving, length 3-5*5 

 in., breadth 1'1-1'85 in. ; petiole '1 in. or less, glabrous. Panicles axil- 

 lary and shorter than the leaves or terminal and much longer, pedunca- 

 late, with many shoi't thick glandular hairs, the branches rather short 

 and spi-eading, bracteoles shorter than the ovaries. Calyx-tube about *! in. 

 long, constricted both below and above the ovary, the limb widely cam- 

 panulate and with 4 very shallow broad reflexed teetli, clothed outside 

 with glandular hairs. Petals inserted near the edge of the calyx-limb 

 and projecting beyond its lobes, broadly ovoid, refloxed, pubescent. 

 Fruit 4-wiuged, tapering to the ends (when young), unknown in the 

 ripe state. 



Perak ; King's Collector 3435, 6664 ; Socrtechini 2014. 

 9. CoMBRETUM NiGREsCENS, King n. spec. A slender climber 20-40 

 feet long ; young branches rusty-puberulous and with sparse long 

 rusty-silky hairs. Leaves opposite, membranous, black when dry, 

 narrowly elliptic to oblong, shortly acuminate, the base rounded, 

 the petioles very short ; upper surface shining, glabi'ous except the 

 rusty-sericeous midrib ; lower surface with the midrib and main 

 nerves rusty-sericeous, the intercostal spaces almost glabrous ; length 

 2"25-2'75 in., breadth '75-1 in., petiole less than '1 in. Panicles termi- 

 nal, lax, spreading, longer than the leaves, minutely cinereous-tomeutose 

 with a few long rusty hairs intermixed, the branches interruptedly 

 spicate, bracteoles shorter than the calyx- tube. Oalijx-tube only about 

 •05 in. long; the limb rather longer, campanulate and with 4 rather 

 shallow broad acute teeth, puberulous on the outer surface, pubescent 

 on the inner, with a wing of hairs in the throat. Petals about as long 

 as the calyx-lobes, broadly ovate or slightly obovate, blunt, puberulous 

 on the outer surface, sericeous on the inner. Stamens 8, unequal, the 

 outer row the longest. Fruit black when di-y, shining, glabrous, with 

 4 narrow wings, '8 in. long and '4 in, broad. 

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