1903.] King & Gamble — Flnr a of the Malayan Peninsula. 119 



TIio occurrence of this in a wild state in the Malay Peninsula is doubtful. In 

 the Andaman islands it is common. 



The stigma of this is externally almost cylindrical. But it is hollowed at the 

 base like a wine-bottle aud covers the apex of the style like a cap. The leaves of the 

 upper part of the branches are smaller and more or less ovoid in form ; those of the 

 lower parts are larger and more rotund, hence the specific name. Roxburgh, 

 thinking only of the lower leaves, named the species Nauclea rotundifolia, 



2. Mitragyna speciosa, Korth. Obs. de Nauclees Indices, p. 19 

 (name only). Young branches usually dark-coloured, compressed. 

 Leaves membranous, oblong-obovate to oblong, sbortly and abruptly 

 acuminate or sub-acute, the base broad and rounded or rarely slightly and 

 suddenly contracted ; both surfaces glabrous, the lower minutely reticu- 

 late and sometimes puberulous on the 12 to 15 pairs of slightly curved 

 ascending nerves ; length 4 to 5'5 in. ; breadth 2 to 35 in. ; petiole thin, 

 "8 to 12 in. long; stipules lanceolate, sparsely pubescent. Corolla "3 in. 

 long; tube of calyx wide, ridged, its mouth about "075 in. across. 

 Anthers sagittate at the base. Stigma mitriform. Haviland in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. XXXIII. 69. Stephegyne speciosa, Korth. Verb. Nat. Gescli. 

 Bot., p. 160. 8. varvifolia, K. Schum. Fl. Kaiser- Wilb. Land., p. 127. 

 Nauclea speciosa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 140. 



Pahang : Ridley 2190. Perak : Wray 1896, 4280 ; Perak : 

 Scortechini 616; King's Collector 1770, 10021, 10459.— Distrib. 

 Sumatra, Forbes, Borneo ; Motley 1169; Korthals, Philippines ; Cuming ; 

 Motley ; Vidal ; New Guinea. 



2. Sarcocephalus, Afzel. 



Shrubs or trees with petiolate leaves and small or large caducous 

 or persistent stipules. Floivers sessile, conjoined by their confluent calyx- 

 tubes into globose, axillary or terminal, pedunculate, ebracteolate heads, 

 the peduncles with 2 small bracts near or below the middle. Calyx-tube 

 short; its mouth with 4 or 5 imbricate, persistent or caducous teeth. 

 Corolla infundibuliform; its mouth with 4 or 5 broad, blunt, imbricate 

 teeth not thickened near the apex. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted in the glab- 

 rous throat of the corolla by very short filaments, or sessile ; anthers 

 broadly ovate. Stigma clavate, fusiform or capitate, exserted, the style 

 long, filiform. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules numerous, on two pendulous pla- 

 centas. Fruits combined into a globose fleshy mass of 2-celled pyrenes, 

 with thin septa. Seeds ovoid, compressed, not winged ; testa crustaceous ; 

 albumen fleshy. — Distrib. About a dozen species, mostly Indo-Malayan ; 

 one Australian and one African. 



Leaves pubescent beneath : capitules about "8 in, in 



ilinm. ... ... ... ... 1. S. hirsutus, 



J. ii. 18 



