Materials for a Flora of ihe Malayan Peninsula, No. 25.— By J. SyKrs 
GamBL#, C.I.E., M.A., F.R.S., late of the Indian Forest 
Department. 
This Part contains the Families No. 95 (bis) Cytinaceez and 109 
Balanophoracee both by Mr. H. N. Ridley, C.M.G., F.R.S., late 
Director of the Botanic Garden at Singapore; also Nos. 112 
Juglandacez, 113 Myricacee, 114 Casuarinacee, 115 Fagacez and 
116 Salicacez all by Mr.Gamble. In these 7 Families there are 11 
genera and 65 species, of which 1 species in Balinophoracee and 
8 in Fagacee arenew. The new species have been described, with 
the usual Latin diagnoses, in the Kew Bulletin. 
Family XCVI bis CYTINACEA. 
By H. N. RipLey. 
Parasitic fleshy herbs, leafless or with a number of scales scattered 
or imbricate, reduced to a single subsessile flower or with a more 
_ or less evolute flower spike. Flower unisexual or hermaphrodite, 
fleshy, campanulate, the tube adnate to the ovary, above broken 
up into from 3 to 12 lobes. Stamens usually innumerable ; anthers 
_ sessile round the central column, bilocular. Ovary inferior or half 
_ superior, unilocular or with multilamellate placentas imperfectly 
plurilocular; stigma single, entire, cupshaped or discoid, or on 
numerous styles on the top of the ovary or column; ovules very 
numerous on parietal placentas or pendulous from the apices 
of loculi, orthotropous or anatropous. Fruit fleshy, unilocular, 
_ indehiscent or irregularly dehiscing. Seeds minute, albuminous — 
_ Disrris. Genera 7, species about 25; in temperate or tropical 
: regions of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. 
Flower solitary, lobes 5; stigmas numerous .. 1. RAFFLESIA. 
Flower solitary, lobes numerous; stigma one, large, 
cupshaped = ne ae .. 2. BRUGMANSIA. 
1. RaFrvesia, R. Br. 
Fleshy unisexual plants, parasitic on woody climbers, stemless, 
1 with ovate bracts at the base of the flower adnate to the ovary. 
> Perianth very large, fleshy, dull red, fetid; tube hemispheric, 
> limb 5-lobed; lobes imbricate, spreadirg, broad, obtuse, glabrous, 
