438 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



VIII. 410 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 437 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Incl. III. 642 ; 

 Koord. & Val. Bijdr. I. 121. A. cuneata, Wall. Cat. 1645 



Perak : in low marshy places and on river banks, Scortechini 1716 ; 

 Wray 170 bis ; King's Collector 400, 4009, 6852, 7464, 7780. Malacca: 

 Griffith ; Maingay (K.D.) 1068 ; Derry 1064 ; Cantley 1937.— Disteib. 

 Java, Borneo {Haviland, 1689, 3044). 



Wallich's No. 1645 bears on the label, " e Sirmur," which is clearly a wrong 

 habitat as mentioned by Hooker. 



3. Alstonia angustiloba, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 438 (1856). 

 A large tree reaching 60 to 100 feet in height and 3 to 4 feet in 

 diameter ; branches spreading, verticillate ; branchlets dark brown, as 

 thick as a goose-quill, terete. Leaves coriaceous, verticillate, 4 to 7 

 in a whorl, oblong or elliptic-oblong, shortly and obtusely acute at apex, 

 attenuate at base ; shining light green above, glaucous grey beneath ; 

 margins recurved ; 2'5 to 5 in. long, 1 to 1'5 in. broad ; midrib promi- 

 nent ; main nerves very many, 30 to 40, the lower ones parallel, at right 

 angles to the midrib, the upper curved upwards, all meeting in the 

 slightly thickened nerve-like margin, raised above ; secondary nerves 

 few, similar ; reticulations very indistinct ; petiole "5 to "75 in. long, 

 channelled above, bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. 

 Inflorescence terminal, grey-pubescent, umbellate ; peduncles stout, 1 to 

 5 together (usually 1 only), followed by a whorl of about 4 to 6 

 secondary branches, '25 to -5 in. long, bearing capitate clusters of many 

 flowers on very short pedicels, and in addition 3 to 5 longer branches 

 surmounted by similar capitate clusters or again whorled ; bracts and 

 bracteoles very small, ovate-acute, caducous ; flowers dark red without, 

 pale yellow within (K.C. No. 5270) ; buds narrow, linear, clavate, 

 glabrous. Calyx-ivhe, short ; lobes ovate-acute, grey-pubescent, ciliate, 

 together -06 in. long. Gorolla-t\xhe cylindrical, slightly dilated above, 

 annulate at the mouth, glabrous without, pubescent within, -25 in. 

 long ; lobes narrow, linear-oblong, -15 to "2 in. long, with a small tuft of 

 villous hairs at the base within. Dish none. Anthers lanceolate-acute; 

 pollen-grains spherical, with 2 small spherical prominences opposite 

 each other on different sides. Ovary glabrous ; carpels distinct ; style 

 slender ; stigma cylindrical, bifid at apex. Fruit of two grey-pubescent 

 follicles, 6 to 8 in. long and barely "1 in. in diameter, erect, terete. Seeds 

 flat, rectangular-oblong, -2 in. long, -05 in. broad, bordered, not papillose, 

 furnished at each end with a tuft of long tawny hairs up to "5 in. 

 long ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons oblong, narrow ; radicle as long as 

 cotyledons. Koord. & Val. Bijdr. I. 120. 



Penang : Curtis 3087. Perak : Wray 4058 ; King's Collector 5263, 



