128 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



indistinct;; the lower brown with mnny minute pnpillas especinlly on the 

 prominent midiib ; main-nerves 10 to 14 pairs, carving upwards and 

 interarching '1 in. from the maro^in, pale, and prominent on the lower 

 surface ; length 4*5 to 7 in.; breadth J '35 to 2'25 ; petiole '3 to *4 in. 

 Panicles small, several together, shorter than the leaves, terminal or 

 from the upper leaf-axils, brajiching from the base, the branches spread- 

 ing, papillose, stout, 4-angled. Flowers few, sessile, '25 in. long 

 (including the stamens), truncate in bud. Calyx campanulate, minutely 

 papillose externally ; the mouth yvide and with 4 short, broad, sub-acute 

 lobes. Petals calyptrate. Fruit globular, the apex with a circular pit 

 surrounded by the wide, short, cupular remains of the calyx, smooth, 

 •4 to '5 in. in diam. 



Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 751. Singapore : Ridley 4657, 4979, 

 €420, 6421. Perak : King's Collector 3724, 6758, 7536. 



A species recognisable by its short stou<3 panicles with short widely carapanulate 

 flowers, and pustnlate stems and panicles. The leaves (when dry) are distinguished 

 by their colour, greenish above and brown beneath. 



9 J. Eugenia Koordersiana, King n. sp. A tree, 40 to 80 feet high ; 

 young branches somewhat thicker than a crow-quill, terete, dark pur- 

 plish-brown when dry. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or narrowly ovate, 

 i-arely oblanceolate, shortly caudate-acuminate, the base cuneate ; both 

 surfaces (when dry) very dark brown, the lower slightly paler ; main- 

 nerves 8 to 10 pairs, curving slightly and^ interarching '1 in. or more 

 from the edge, impressed on the upper surface slightly prominent on 

 the lower ; length 2' 75 to 375 in. ; breadth 1 to 1"75 in. ; petiole about 

 •3 in. Panicles terminal, usually much longer than the leaves, corym- 

 bose, many-branched, tiie peduncle and branches sharply 4-angled, 

 compressed at the nodes ; branchlets 3- to 5-flowered at the apex. 

 Flowers white, clavate in bud, sessile. Calyx campanulate, 4-angled, 

 •15 in. long, contracted for half its length into a pseudo-stalk; the 

 mouth with 4 deep, broad, rounded lobes. Petals 4, sub-rotund, calyp- 

 trate. Fruit unknown. 



Pkrak: ScortecUni 257 ; King's Collector 6208, 6233, 6385. 



When dry the leaves and panicles of this are very dark-coloured. It is allied 

 to E. fseudo-suMilis and E. Clarkeana, but differs from both in leaves I have 

 named it in honour of Dr. S. H. Koorders of the Forest Dept. in Netherlands India. 



92. Eugenia simulans, King n. sp. A tree, 30 to 40 feet high, 

 with pendulous branches : young branches terete, the very youngest 

 compressed and about as thick as a crow-quill, brown. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, shortly and rather bluntly 

 acuminate, the base cuneate ; both sides dark-brown and shining when 

 dry, the lower paler and duller, slightly olivaceous ; nerves numerous, 



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