72 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 



1. Tristania subauriculata, n. sp. King. A tree 10 to 40 feet 

 high : the young branches pale (when dry) puberulous or glabrescent. 

 Leaves very coriaceous, sessile, obovate-oblong, the apex broad, blunt, 

 emarginate or slightly pointed, gradually narrowed to the slightly- 

 auricled base : both surfaces glabrous, pale when dry, the upper shining, 

 the lower paler, dull, obscurely glandular : main-nerves spreading, 

 not prominent, '2 in. apart, length 25 to 6 in. ; breadth 15 to 25 in. 

 Cymes axillary, few-flowered, much shorter than the leaves, dichotomous : 

 the peduncles '3 to "8 in. long, compressed, clothed, especially above, 

 with white silky hairs. Flowers "25 in. across. Calyx-tuhe tubular- 

 campanulate, densely pubescent below externally, the teeth broadly 

 triangular, blunt, short. Petals rounded, entire, glabrous. Stamens in 

 5 groups of 10 each. Ovary depressed-globular, glabrous. Capsule sub- 

 globular, glabrous, half-enveloped by the calyx, '25 in. in diam. Seeds 

 compressed, about 8 in each cell. 



Perak : King's Collector 7047, 8253. 



This ia allied to T. merguensis, but has broader leaves of much thicker texture 

 and sessile ; shorter fewer-flowered cymes, and smaller flowers and fruit. 



2. Tristania merguensis. Griff, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. for 1854, 

 p. 637. A tree. Young branches stout with pale bark when dry ; the 

 youngest puberulous. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, obtuse or obtusely 

 acuminate, narrowed to the very short or almost obsolete petiole ; main- 

 nerves ascending, distinct, "1 in. apart ; both surfaces glabrous, the 

 lower dull, paler and obscurely glandular, the upper shining ; length 

 8*5 to 7 in. ; breadth 1*15 to 2 in. ; petiole "1 to '2 in. Cymes on angular 

 peduncles '5 to 1*5 in. long, slightly supra-axillary, shorter than the 

 leaves, dichotomous, hoary-pubescent, especially towards the apex. 

 Flowers densely crowded at the ends of the branchlets, '25 in. in diam. 

 Calyx-tuhe densely clothed with white pubescence on both surfaces, 

 broadly cupular, tapered to the very short almost obsolete pedicel, the 

 teeth broad, rounded. Petals small, transversely oblong, shortly clawed. 

 Ovary pilose. Capsule sub-globular, large ('4 in. in diam.), glabrous, 

 half- enveloped by the calyx ; its valves broad, blunt. Seeds compressed, 

 about 8 in each cell. Kurz, For. Fl. Burm. I, 473. " Tristania affinis,'* 

 Griff. Notul. 650 : Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 636, f. 3. Melaleuca eugeniifolia, 

 Wall. Cat. 3648. M. decurrens, Wall. Cat. 3649. 



Malacca: Finlayson, Harvey. Perak : Wray 2921, 4124 ; Scortechini 

 1021. Pahang : Uidley 1062 : growing at elevations of several thousand 

 feet. DiSTRiB. — Burma, Borneo. 



3. Tristania Maingati, Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 467. 

 A tree : young branches with brown bark (when dry) and covered with 

 deciduous white hairs. Leaves narrowly oblong-oblanceolate acute, much 



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