76 G. King — Materials jw a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No 1, 



(d). Two specimens collected by Mr. Wray at an elevation of 6,700 feet in 

 Perak, These are in fruit; their leaves resemble those of M. gracilis, King, but 

 have the main-nerves fewer but bolder. 



2. Alangium, Lamk. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, persistent. 

 Flowers in axillary fascicles or short cymes, hermaphrodite, hairy, 

 jointed on their pedicels ; bracts small or 0. Calyx-tube adnate to the 

 ovary, the limb toothed or truncate. Petals 5 or 6 (rarely more), 

 linear-oblong, valvate, sometimes becoming reflexed. Stamens equal 

 in number to or twice as many as the petals or more; the anthers, long, 

 linear; the filaments short compressed, often hairy. Ovary inferior, 

 1- to 3-celled, or 1-celled at the apex and 2- to 3-celled at the base, 

 surmounted by a fleshy disc : style very long often clavate ; stigma 

 large, capitate or pyramidal; ovule pendulous. Fruit a berry, often 

 ■with very scanty pulp, crowned by the slightly enlarged calyx. Seed 

 oblong, compressed ; albumen fleshy, sometimes ruminate ; cotyledons 

 leafy, flat or crumpled: radicle long or short. — Disteib. About 16 

 species, in tropical and sub-tropical Asia and Africa, Australia, Poly- 

 nesia. 



Stamens (in Malayan specimens) more than 6 (usually 



15 to 20) : fruit only slightly compressed ... ... '1. A. Lamarchii. 



Stamens 5 or 6 ; fruit much compressed :— 

 Leaves oblique, membranous: — 



Cymes on comparatively long peduncles, much-branch- 

 ed, many-flowered ... ... ... 2. A. uniloculare. 



Leaves not oblique, coriaceous : — 

 Cymes on short peduncles ; flowers 6 to 12, shortly 

 pedicelled and '1 iu. in diam. ; leaves glabrous above 

 and minutely scaly underneath ... .. 3. A. elenaceum. 



Cymes sessile, 3- to 5-flowered ; flowers '26 in. in 



diam.; leaves glabrous on both surfaces ... 4. A. Ridleyi. 



Cymes on very short peduncles, 4- to 8-flowered : 



flowers "1 in. in diam. ; leaves tomentose or pubescent 



on lower surface ... ... ... ,,, 5. A.nohile. 



1. Alangitjm LAiUECKii, Thwaites Enum. PI. Ceyl. 133. A shrub 

 or small tree. Leaves variable in form and size, those of the Malayan 

 specimens oblong-elliptic, elliptic to elliptic-ovate or ovate-rotund, the 

 base rounded or slightly cordate, the apex with a short blunt apiculus ; 

 upper surface glabrous or nearly so, the lower with a few scattered hairs ; 

 main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, reticulations distinct; length 3 to 6 in.; 

 breadth 2 to 3"5 in. ; petiole "2 to "3 in. Floioers in short dense fascicles 

 of 4 to 8, about "75 in. long ; peduncles, pedicels and outside of calyx 

 rusty-tomentose. Calyx cupular, slightly 6-toothed. Petals lanceolate, 



