1903.] King & Gamble— Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 189 



embryo pyriform, in fleshy albumen. — Distrib. Two species, both 

 Malayan. 



A genus closely allied to Urophyllum. 



Flowers in long-peduncled cymes with leafy bracts at 



the bases of branches ; calyx a. shallow cup ; loaves acu+.e 1 . A. premnoides. 



Flowers in shortly peduncled panicles without leafy 



bracts ; calyx a deep cup ; leaves acuminate ... 2. A. Maingayi. 



1. Aulacodiscus premnoides, Hook. fil. in Gen. Plantar. IT. 71. 

 Young branches dark -coloured, 4-angled, glabrous. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, oblong, shortly acuminate, the base slightly narrowed, both 

 surfaces olivaceous-brown when dry, glabrous ; the upper shining, the 

 lower paler, dull and transversely reticulate; main-nerves 14 to 16 

 pairs, spreading to slightly curved; length 5 - 5 to 7 in.; breadth 125 to 

 1*65 in. ; petiole '2 to "35 in. Cymes about 1*25 in. long and l - 5 in. in 

 diam., pedunculate, axillary, trichotomously umbellate, rusty-puberu- 

 lous ; the common peduncle 1 in. long, the secondary half as long, each 

 bearing at its base a leafy ovate-rotund petiolate bract *3 to "4 in. long. 

 Floivers about '1 in. long, their pedicels longer. Calyx shallow, cupular, 

 indistinctly toothed. Corolla much depressed in bud, the mouth with 

 8 inflexed lobes, hairy outside. Perfect stamens 8, included, broadly 

 ovate, on short filaments. Disc large, convex, hairy, deeply 8-grooved. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 97 in part. Axanthes enneandra, Wight in 

 Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. VIII. 144. 



Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 2938. 



2. Aulacodiscus Maingayi, King & Gamble n. sp. A tree ; young 

 branches as thick as a goose- or swan-quill, dark-coloured, obtusely 

 4-angled. Leaves thinly coriaceous, pale-brown when dry, oblong or 

 oblong-elliptic, acute, slightly narrowed at the base ; both surfaces 

 shining, olivaceous-brown, the lower slightly paler ; main-nerves 12 to 

 14 pairs, curved, spreading, thin but prominent beneath ; length 6 to 8 

 in. ; breadth 2 to 2'5 in. ; petiole "25 to *5 in. Panicles pedunculate, 

 cymose, with no leafy bracts at the bases of the branches, many-flowered, 

 1 to 1*5 in. in diam., slightly puberulous and with a few small bracteoles, 

 the peduncles less than "5 in. long. Floivers '1 in. long, their pedicels 

 longer. Calyx deeply cupular ; sub-glabrous ; its mouth truncate, entire. 

 Corolla twice as long as the calyx, with 8 deep lanceolate reflexed lobes. 

 Style long, reflexed over the disc. ; stigma large. Fruit '2h in. in diam. 

 Aulacodiscus premnoides, Hook. fil. in Fl. Br. Ind. Til. 97 in part. 



Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 938. Selangor : Curtis 2343. Perak : 

 Scortechini 2004 ; King's Collector 1086. — Distrib. Sumatra. 



This is one of the two plants referred to A. premnoides by Sir Joseph Hooker in 

 F.B.I. I.e. It appears to us to differ sufficiently from the other one (Griffith K.D. 



