70i) Materials for a Flora of tJie Malayan Peninsula. 



Fruit sub-hemispberic, truncate, sub-ecbinate, '35 in. in diam. Wall. 

 Cat. 4078. Kibessia echinata, Cogn. in DC. Mon. Pbau. VII, 1108. 

 Kibessia simplex, Kortb. Verb. Nafc. Gescb. Bot. 253; Blume, Mus. 

 Bot. I, 9 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 152 ; C. B. Clarke in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 552. Kibessia ciipidaris, Dene in Deless. Ic. 

 Sel. V, t. 5 ; Ann. So. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 317. K, acuminata, Dene in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, V, 316; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 

 153. 



Malacca and Singapore ; not uncommon ; many collectors. 



I cannot see how K. acuminata. Dene, is to be distingaished as a j j' i and I 

 reduce it here without any hesitation. 



Var. pubescens, King. -Bases of leaves somewbat rounded and 

 Bub-cordate ; young brancbes, under surfaces of leaves and panicles 

 "witb mucb minute rusty pubescence. P. echinata, Jack, Wall. Cat. 

 4078a. Kibessia piibescens, Dene in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, V, 318 ; Triana 

 in Linn. Tians. XXVIII, 152 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 II, 552 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Pban. VII, 1108. 



Penang, Malacca, Perak. 



I cannot see what claim this has to specific rank. To me it appears to be a 

 variety and not a very distinct one of P. echinata, Jack. Wallich did not even regard 

 it as a variety and issued it as true P. echinata. This form, in the three provinces 

 where it occurs, appears to be very common. 



3. Pterandra Griffithit, King, n. sp. A small tree ; young 

 brancbes cylindric, very little thickened at the nodes, glabrous. Leaves 

 tbinly coriaceous, elliptic to ovate-oblong, narrowed at tbe non-cordate 

 (cordate in var.) base, tbe apex very ebortly acuminate or acute, 

 3-nerved ; botb surfaces glabrous, shining; lengtb 2'25-4 in. ; breadtb 

 1-2 in. ; j'ietiole 'J 5-2 in. Floivers in 2-3- rarely 5-7-flowered, axillary, 

 bracteolate cymes sborter than tbe leaves, rarely in crowded, terminal 

 cymes; bracteoles ovate, acute, minute. Calyx-tube widely campanulate, 

 •15 in. long, covered witb adpressed, triangular, puberulous scales ; tbe 

 moutb witb 4 large, blunt, triangular teetb. Petals orbicular-ovate, 

 undulate, abruptly and sbortly apiculate-spreading, not calyptrate. 

 Stamens 8, equal ; tbe antbers short, thick, about as long as tbe 

 filaments, gibbous at tbe base behind, inserted at an obtuse angle on 

 tbe filaments. Fruit globular-ovoid, truncate at tbe moutb, covered by 

 the persistent scales, under -2 in. in diam. 



Malacca; Grifith (K.B.) 22^2/1-, Penakg ; Curtis 9bS. 



Griffith's specimens of this (2272/1) have been referred by M. Cogniaux (DC. 

 Mon. Phan. Vll, 1110) to Rectomitra tuherculala Bl., but comparison in the Kew 

 Herbarium trith two authentic specimens of that plant collected in Sumatra and 



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