Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 403 
surfaces smooth, glabrous, yellowish-green when fresh, olive-brown 
when dry; ]0—16 cm. long, 3—5 cm broad; main nerves 12—14 
pairs, curved to join in loops near the margin, reticulation areolate. 
Flowers in spikes or racemes ‘in spreading suberect panicles: & 
spikes 5—10 cm. long ; bracts minute, 3-lobed, covered with glandular 
scales ; perianth-lobes 4, obovate, cucullate, also densely glandular 
without, each bearing usually 3 stamens, one at base two a little 
higher up, anthers minute, suborbicular, nearly sessile: 2 in tawny- 
puberulous racemes reaching 20 cm. in length; pedicels 3—5 mm. 
long, curved upwards ; bracts cup-shaped, 3 lobed; perianth-lobes 4 
asin g', surmounting the glandular depressed-orbicular ovary ; style 
very short, stigmas 4 spreading caducous. Fruit a globular nut 
5—6 mm. in diam., closely covered with golden round glandular scales 
and surmounted by the hardened persistent perianth-lobes; cupu'ar 
bract at first small, then gradually expande1 into a 3-lobed scarious 
involucre cleft to the base on the inner side, the mid-lobe spathu- 
late, 4cm. long by 1—1-5 cm. broad, the side lobes oblong 2-25 cm. 
long by 8 mm. broad, the whole involucre prominently net-veined, 
with glandular scales and scurfy on the nerves. C. DC. Prodr. XVI. 
ti. 141; Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 596. #. chrysolepis, Hance in 
Ann. Sc. Nat. Sér. 4 XV. 227; Baill. Hist. Pl. XI. 403, fig. 469. 
E. Roxburghiana, Lindl. in Wall Pl. As. Rar. IL. 87 t.199 (1n part 
only, i.e. all but the fruit). Juglans pterococca, Roxb. Fl. Ind. III, 
631 an part only. 
PENANG AND Sine@apore: Wallich 4942!. Prnane: Govern- 
ment Hill, 2000 ft. Maingay K.D. 1509!; Curtis 56!; King’s Col- 
lector 1799!; Ridley 9367!. Perak: in old dense forest about Larut 
at 1000 m. alt., King’s Collector 2915!; Scortechini!; Wray !.—Dis- 
TRIB. China, Tonkin. 
The plate in Wallich Pl. As. Rar. clearly represents this species except the 
drawing of the fruit, which belongs to EH. spicata. The plate is copied from 
Roxburgh’s drawing of Juglans pterococca and the description in Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
except as regards the female flowers and fruit clearly belongs, as suggested 
by Hook. f. in the Fl. Br. Ind., to this species also. 
Family CXIII. MYRICACE. 
Glandular and aromatic trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate 
penninerved, simple or rarely pinnatifid, entire serrate or irregularly 
dentate; stipules 0. Fiowers unisexual, dicecious or rarely mone- 
cious, in bracteate catkin-like spikes; the male spikes solitary, 
