(54 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Tenlnsnla. 



M. rosea, Gaud., to which this plant has been referred in the Flora of British 

 India, is a tetramerous species from the Marianne Islands. It has, morever, larger 

 flowers than this and larger, more acute leaves. This plant varies in the size of 

 its leaves; specimens collected at the highest elevations having the largest leaves. 

 The structure of the flowers is, however, uniform. 



9. Medinilla crassineryia, Blume ia Flora, 1831, 510. Branches 

 with pale bark, the older terete, the youngest striate when dry. 

 Leaves in whorls of 3, coriaceous, broadly oblanceolate, or narrowly 

 obovate, shortly and abruptly acuminate, much narrowed to the base, 

 3-nerved from a little above the base, occasionally with two short 

 lateral faint nerves from the very base ; lengtli 3 to 5 in. ; breadth 1-5 

 to 2 in. ; petiole 35 to '75 in. Floivers in short fascicles on the stem 

 below the leaves, in few-flowered pedunculate cymes, mixed with a 

 few solitarv, on pedicels '5 in. long. Calyx-ttihe ovoid-campanulate, the 

 mouth truncate and almost entire. Stamens 10, subequal ; the basal 

 anterior processes broad and about as long as the filiform posterior spur. 

 Fruit o'lobose with a cylindric truncate mouili, '4> in. across. Blume 

 Rumphial, 15; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1, pt. 1, 515; Cogn. in DO. Mon. 

 Phan. VII, 574. M. macrocarpa, Clarke (not of Blume) in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. II, 547. 



Singapore; EidJeij 1637. Penang ; Curtis 2225. Perak; Wray 

 1821. Malacca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 799. Distuib. Borneo. 



True M. macrocarpa, Bl., is represented in the Kew Herbarium by a single 

 specimen collected by Blume in the Moluccas. The flowers on it have, as described 

 by the author of the species, an irregularly toothed calyx-limb. The plant now 

 described differs in having an almost entire truncate limb, and I follow Cogniaux in 

 referring it to M. crassinervia, Bl. In the Flora of British India it is, however, 

 referred to M. macrocarpa, Bl. 



10. Mepinilla perakexsis, King, n. sp. Epiphytal ; branches 

 terete, glabrous, tubercled. Leaves in wborls of 3 or 4, coriaceous, 

 elliptic-rotund, blunt, the base rounded and iiarrowly cordate, glabrous ; 

 5-nerved, tlie lateral pair of nerves faint ; length 2o to 5*5 in. ; breadth 

 175 to 375 in. ; petioles 6 to 1*2 in. Panicles cymose, on rather long 

 peduncles from the axils of fallen leaves, shorter than the leaves, 

 lax 12- to 20-flowered ; branches spreading, whorled, 2-3-cliotomou8. 

 Flowers 5 in. long, their pedicels '35 in. Calyx-tnhe cupular ; the limb 

 but little expanded, cut into 5 shallow, broad teeth. Petals 5, oblong. 

 A)dhers 10, curved, with 2 yellow tubercles at the base in front and a 

 shot spur behind from the connective. Fruit '35 in. in diam. ; the 

 seeds oblong, obtuse, with an excurrent tail, the testa pitted. 



Perak ; Scortechini 410 ; Wray. 



Collected only by the late Father Scortechini and Mr. Wray. According to the 

 field-note of the former, the petals and anthers are white and the fruit blueish- 

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