602 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Flowers "20 ill. long; capsules -lo in. long .. ..1. N. malaccensu. 



Flowers '35 in. long; capsules -2.5 in. long .. .. 2. N. major. 



1. NoREisiA MALACCENSis, Gardn. in Hook. Kew Journ. I. 327 {in 

 part) (1849). A tree; young branches much thinner than a goosequill, 

 terete, deciduously fulvous-puberulous and with many lenticels, dark 

 brown when dry. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; ovate or elliptic, acute at 

 each end ; upper surface brown, glabrous, shining ; the lower rather 

 pale olivaceous, glabrous except the deciduously puberulous midrib and 

 nerves (uniformly puberulous in var.) ; main nerves 4 to 6 pairs, 

 ascending, curved, prominent like the midrib on the lower surface, 

 indistinct on the upper ; length 1-5 to 2-5 in., breadth -85 to 1-25 in. ; 

 petiole '25 in. Cymes as in N. major, but smaller, and the flowers only 

 •25 in. long, and the ripe capsules rather less than '15 in. long. Clarke 

 in Hook. f. El. Br. Ind. IV. 85 (in part). 



Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3731 (m part) ; Maingay (K.D.) 1023 ; 

 Gooclenough 1382 ; Derry 1035. 



Vae. pubescens, King & Gamble. Under surfaces of leaves uniformly 

 pubescent. 



Peeak : Scortechini 634 ; Kings Collector 10535. 



2. NoEEisiA MAJOE, Solercder in Engl. & Prantl. Naturl. Pflanzenfam. 

 IV. 2, 37 (1892). A tree ; young branches thinner than a goosequill, terete, 

 deciduously fulvous-puberulous, black when dry. Leaves thinly coria- 

 ceous ; elliptic or oblong-elliptic, acute, the base cuneate ; both surfaces 

 olivaceous-brown when dry, the lower reticulate, both glabrous except 

 the fulvous-puberulous midrib and nerves on the inner surface ; main 

 nerves 5 to 7 pairs, stout, oblique, little-curved, deciduously fulvous- 

 puberulous like the midrib on the lower surface ; length 2-75 to 3-25 in., 

 breadth 1-5 to "25 in. ; petiole "2 to '25 in. long. Cymes in dense, corym- 

 bose, terminal, pedunculate panicles, their branches fulvous-tomentose ; 

 bracts linear, about -2 in. long or less. Flotvers sessile or subsessile, 

 minutely bracteolate, "35 in. long. Calyx minute, cupular, 5-toothed. 

 Corolla with a cylindric tube slightly dilated near the base, densely 

 pubescent outside ; the mouth with 5 linear-oblong, blunt, much 

 recurved lobes, glabrous inside ; filaments much exserted ; anthers 

 broadly ovate. Capsule "25 in. long and about -15 in. in diam., 

 ellipsoid, pubescent. Seeds with a much elongate wing at each end. 

 N. malaccensis, Gardn. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. I. 327 ; Clarke in 

 Hook. f. El. Br. Ind. IV. 85 {in part). Antonia Griffithii, Wight 111. 

 11. t. 156b. 



Peeak: King's Collector 7845, 10882. Malacca: Griffith; Maingay 

 (K.D.) 1024 ; Ridley 1382. SincxApoee : Ridley 6828. 



