1903.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 121 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 823. Perak: King's Collector 4470, 

 4771, 6424, 7768, 7977, 10020, 10363 ; Wray 2043,' 4173 ; Scortechini 

 265. Selangor : Ridley 2851. Province Welleslet : Ridley 9388. 



3. Sarcocephalus subditus, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 133. A shrub 

 or small tree ; young branches slender, pale, the very youngest dark- 

 coloured, glabrous. Leaves dark-coloured (when dry), thickly membran- 

 ous, glabrous, oblong-oblanceolate to elliptic-oblong, shortly and ob- 

 tusely acuminate, the base cuneate ; main-nerves 6 or 7 pairs, spread- 

 ing ; length 3 to 4'5 in.; breadth 125 to 25 in.; petiole "2 to *4 in. 

 Peduncles usually solitary, slender, axillary or terminal, less than 1 in. 

 long when in flower, longer in fruit, glabrescent or puberulous ; bearing 

 two small lanceolate bracts below the middle. Capitules "5 to '75 in. in 

 diam. Calyx-tube short ; the mouth expanded, truncate. Corolla with a 

 narrow cylindrical tube ; the mouth expanded into 4 broadly oblong 

 or sub-obovate, obtuse lobes, slightly hairy on the inner surface ; anthers 

 ovate, almost sessile ; style exserted, stigma clavate. Syncarpium 

 globular, *5 to *75 in. in diam. ; pale, covered with striate pits. Seeds 

 black. Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. II. 22; Havil. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XXXIII. 30 ; Koord. & Valet. Bijdr. 8, 16. Platanocarpum subditum; 

 Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. 133, t. 32. 



Perak: Scortechini; Wray 4167; King's Collector 1073, 3027, 6646, 

 7812, 8854, 10436. Selangor: Ridley 10212. Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 

 1770,2771. — Distrib. Sumatra; Borneo. 



4. Sarcocephalus Junghuhnii, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 133. A tree, 

 40 or 50 feet high ; young branches brown when dry. Leaves pale 

 brown (when dry), thinly coriaceous, glabi'ous, elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 

 abruptly, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base more or less cuneate ; 

 main-nerves 5 to 7 pairs, curving upwards, prominent beneath ; length 

 35 to 5"5 in. ; breadth 1*65 to 35 in. ; petiole '35 to '65 in. Peduncles 

 axillary or terminal, solitary or in groups of three, from 1 to 15 in. 

 long, with four small unequal, ovate-acute bracts below the middle, 

 minutely pubescent. Capitules '5 in. in diam. Corolla infundibuliform ; 

 its mouth with 4 large obovate-rotund blunt lobes, imbricate in aestiva- 

 tion, glabrous ; anthers short, almost sessile, broadly ovate. Style 

 exserted; stigma clavate. Syncarpium globular, covered with shallow 

 striate pits. Seeds black. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 23; Havil. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXIII. 29. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2772; Maingay (K.D.) 822; Berry 1110, 

 1188. Singapore : Ridley 2847, 2850, 2880, 3397, 6534, 0897. Penang : 

 Curtis 303 ; Fox 10674. Pekak : Scortechini 2166, 2105 ; King's Collector 

 4440,4499, 8179, 8315. — Distrib. Sumatra; Borneo; Philippines; 

 Cochin-China. 



