78 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3387; Maingay 708. Perak : Wray 

 2927, 3486 ; Scortechini 19J4 ; King's Collector — many numbers. 



3. Alanguim ebenaceum, Griffith MSS. A tree 30 to 70 feet 

 high ; young branches rather slender, smooth, dark-coloured when dry. 

 Leaves coriaceous, oblong, slightly acuminate, the base cuneate or round- 

 ed ; upper surface glabrous, the lower with numerous minute pale 

 scales; main-nerves 13 to 16 pairs, spreading, very slightly curved, 

 prominent on the lower surface ; length 6 to 10 in.; breadth 25 to 4 

 in.; petiole "35 to '8 in. long. Cymes from as long to twice as long as 

 the petioles, on short peduncles, axillary, branched, 6- to 12-flowered. 

 Flowers sessile, "65 in. long, and only '1 in. in diam. Calyx cupular 

 slightly grooved ; the mouth truncate, slightly toothed. Petals 6 

 (sometimes only 5), linear, minutely pubescent externally. Stamens 

 6 (or 5) ; anthers Sbhout as long as the petals, linear; filaments short, 

 compressed, woolly in front. Style cylindric-clavate, shortly hairy ; 

 stigma pyramidal. Fruit ovate in outline, compressed, faintly ridged* 

 about 1 in. long and '6 in. wide. Marlea ehenacea, Clarke in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. I, 742. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3384. Maingay (K.D.) 706. Perak: 

 Wray 3302 ; Scortechini 1963 ; Kings Collector 3252, 5363, 6562, 6626. 



4. Alangium Ridleyc, King. A tree ; young branches covered 

 with minute deciduous scales and hairs, rather slender. Leaves cori- 

 aceous, elliptic, sometimes slightly obovate, shortly and bluntly acumi- 

 nate, the base cuneate ; both surface^s glabrous ; main-nerves 10 pairs 

 spreading, slightly curved upwards, bold and prominent on the lower 

 surface ; connecting veins parallel, faint ; length 6 to 8 in. ; breadth 

 2*5 to 35 in. ; petioles '9 to 13 in. Cymes as long as or rather shorter 

 than the petioles, sessile, 3- to 5-flowered. Flowers nearly 1 in. long, 

 •25 in. in diam. their pedicels '2 to '25 in. long, minutely velvety- 

 tomentose like the outside of the calyx and petals. Calyx carapanulate, 

 slightly furrowed, the mouth wide truncate. Petals 6, thick, grooved 

 and minutely hairy inside, oblong-lanceolate, sub-acute. Stamens some- 

 what shorter than the petals ; anthers narrov^ly linear, with a tuft of 

 hairs at the base ; filaments short flat almost glabrous. Style slender 

 clavate ; stigma deeply furrowed, disc 6-angled cushion-like, glabrous. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Singapore, in the Botanic Garden Jungle, Ridley 4941. 



Ridley's specimens are withont fruit. Mr. Wray has sent from Perak some 

 specimens (Herb. Wray 3632) of a plant in fruit which in spite of its considerably 

 larger leaves (nearly a foot long), may be conspecifio with this. These fruits are 

 narrowly ellipsoid, much compressed and deeply farrowed, narrowly to the base, 

 less so to the truncate apex. A. costata, Boerl. MSS. is the nearest ally of both. 



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