Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 431 



Ker Bot. Reg. t. 391 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 691, and ed. Carey & Wall. II. 

 526 ; Wall. Cat. 1583. 



Singapore : cultivated, Maingay (K.D.) 1055. — Distrib. Burma. 

 This shrub is very commonly cultivated in Indian and Malayan gardens. 



Var. albiflora, King & Gamble. Differs but little from the species, 

 but has white flowers, a glabrous acutely pointed capsule, more ob- 

 long leaves, and rather larger corolla-lobes. Calpicarpum alhiflorum, 

 Teysm. & Binn. in Tijd. Ned. Ind. XXV. (1863) 402. See also Ridley 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, III. 320. 



Singapore : Goodenough 59 ; King's Collector 1232 ; Biclley. — 

 Distrib. Java, Ceram [Teysmann 5035). 



2. KopsiA PAuciFLORA, Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 639 (1882). A 

 shrub (?) ; branchlets slender, pale brown, uppermost angled. Leaves 

 chartaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely caudate-acuminate 

 at apex, acuminate at base ; olivaceous-green and somewhat shining on 

 the upper, yellowish and dull on the lower, surface ; 4 to 6 in. long, 

 1'5 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib fairly prominent, impressed on the upper, 

 much raised on the lower, surface ; main nerves 6 to 10 pairs, distant, 

 starting at an angle of 60° with the midrib and curving upwards to join 

 in an obscure intramarginal nerve quite close to the edge ; secondary 

 nerves and transverse reticulations prominent on the lower surface ; 

 petiole "25 in. long, stout. Cymes terminal, few-flowered; the rachis 

 •25 to '5 in. long, with many ovate-acute persistent bracts. Calyx 

 •15 in. long ; lobes ovate, obtuse, rather shorter than the tube. Corolla- 

 tube very slender, cylindric, 1^5 to 2 in. long, villous inside, dilated at 

 the top ; lobes linear-oblong, 1 in. long, at length reflexed in flower. 

 Anthers small, near the top of the tube. Fruit not known. 



Malacca : on Mount Ophir, Maingay (K.D.) 1056. 



3. KoPSiA ScoRTECHiNii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree, reaching 

 40 to 50 feet in height ; the branchlets swollen at the nodes. Leaves 

 chartaceous ; elliptic oblong, briefly acuminate at apex, unequally 

 narrowed at base ; somewhat shining on the upper, pale on the lower 

 surface ; margins slightly recurved ; 2 to 5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. 

 broad ; midrib slender, impressed above, ending in a gland at the 

 apex ; main nerves 8 to 16 pairs, at an angle of about 70° with the 

 midrib, curving upwards to join in an intramarginal nerve immediately 

 close to the edge; reticulations inconspicuous; petiole •I in. long, 

 glandular at the base inside. Cymes terminal, pseudo-terminal or 

 lateral, on peduncles of varying (-25 to 2 in.) length; branches spreading, 

 corymbose ; bracts ovate-triangular, acute, •I to ^15 in. long, glabrous ; 

 pedicels short variable, each with a pair of small bracteoles ; flowers 

 large, white ; buds clavate. Calyx-t\xhe scarcely any ; lobes ovate 



