Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 251 
‘small, flat; radicle clavate, superior.—Distris. About 3 species in 
the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
Perianth of # convex in bud, leaves under 20 cm. long. 
Leaves oblong, 3—6 cm. broad aE Seis SANOmAr 
Leaves oval-oblong, 4—8 cm. broad .. .. 2 M, LATYFOLIA. 
Perianth of ~# concave in bud, leaves over 20 cm. long, 
6 ecm. broad ts a ws : 3. M. CALOPHYLLIA. 
1. MattHmaA Sancta, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. IT. 90., t. x. 
(1849). A tree, reaching 12 to 15 m. in height and 25—40 cm. 
in diam. of stem; branchlets smooth, glabrous, ashy-grey, terete, 
the uppermost somewhat flattened. Leaves chartaceo-coriaceous ; 
oblong, rather abruptly short- or long-acuminate at apex, acute at 
base ; margins entire, recurved ; both surfaces glabrous, glossy green 
when fresh, greyish when dry especially beneath ; 10—20 cm. long, 
3—6 cm. broad; midrib stout, prominent, keeled above; main 
nerves 6—9 pairs, more or les simpressed above, prominently raised 
beneath, curved outwards and joined near the margin by prominent 
intramarginal arches; secondary nerves between the main nerves 
also joining the arches and often branched ; reticulation irregularly 
netted ; petiole stout, twisted, channelled, 4—10 mm. long. Flowers 
in subumbellate cymes or fascicles in the axils of the leaves or of 
fallen leaves: bracts small, pubescent; peduncles stout, puberulous, 
about 5—10 mm. long; pedicels slender, pubescent, flattened, those 
of 9 2—4 em. long, enlarged in fruit, those of ¢ flowers shorter ; 
perianth turbinate, that of 3 flowers 4—5 mm. broad with conical 
apex and 4 minute lobes, that of ? flowers 6—13 mm. broad with 
depressed apex and obscure lobes, circumsciss at the broadest point. 
Stamens 4, filaments very short, connective broad. Carpels « , subu- 
late, pubescent. Fruit an ovoid drupe about 2—2°5 cm. long by 1— 
1-5 cm. in diam., angled, many together, stalked, on the enlarged 
perianth base; pericarp crustaceous, indigo-blue when ripe. Seed 
oblong, about 15 cm. long, with prominent funicle and broad hilum; 
albumen thick; cotyledons ovate-oblong, flattened, 4—6 mm. long; 
radicle as long as cotyledons, thick. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. 2. 670; 
Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 2. 74; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 115; Perkins & 
Gilg in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 52, fig. 10, 1—4 and xlix 18. 
Perak: Wray 2811!; at Gunong Haram, Scortechini 704!; in 
dense forest on mountains near Thaiping and Larut at 700—1200 m. 
alt., King’s Collector 6380!, 8455!. Matacca: Maingay K.D. 1308!. 
SINGAPORE: Garden jungle, Ridley 107!—Disrriz. Sumatra, Borneo. 
