MATERIALS FOR A FLORA OF THE MALAYAN PENINSULA. 95 
Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. The first two parts of this, carry- 
rk a 
ing the work from unculacee to Ternstroemiacee (in Benth. & 
Hook. f. order, =e for the present the Anonacee), form the 
subject of this n King modestly says it is unlikely that 
two parts already issued, containing descriptions of 244 species, 
quite suffice ee enable us to estimate the interest of the plants in 
this fine reg 
lt becat spent * that Dr. King includes in his area the English 
portion of the province called by Hooker, f. et T. Thomson ‘ The 
Malayan Peninsula’’; for he does not cite — localities from the 
Siam side, while he places i nities erim ’’ among his Geographic 
Distribution area. But he does include the geen and the An- 
damans, the latter of which nye an Rese rather sine a 
Kin, s from 
much interest. Grand as are the collections got together b 
gt . ey can by no means represent completely the Flora of 
his provin 
rts of the Flora of the Malay Peninsula now 
kamen 8 oe descriptions of 244 species,— Ranunculacex to 
Terns iacee [omitting sroneeee | ; of these, 116 were in Sir 
J. D. Hooks er’s Flora of British India; 100 are altogether new to 
science ; 28 are new to the Malay Prciieals: aving been mostly 
wn only in the Malay ds. But of the 144 species 
large pe | 
knowledge; the descriptions are generally much fuller, and in 
many cases Dr. King has been able to add a description of fruit 
before unknown. 
) : sin 
this respect that the Malay Peninsula Flora is of such high 
practical interest; there is hardly one of these new species which 
may not, roe possibly, prove of economic value. 
Enum. Plants # Davin; i. e., he might ha 
a library, but would have made it 
