112 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, [No. 1, 



compressed, all very pale. Flowers 'S or '4 in. across. Petals 4, calyp- 

 trate, green. Calyx '2 in. long, campanulate, contracted for half its 

 length into a thin pseudo- stalk, smooth ; the mouth truncate or very 

 slightly toothed. Fruit (unripe) globular, smooth, crowned by the short, 

 wide remains of the calyx, '35 in. in diam. 



Malacca: Mai7igay (K.D.) 746. Singapore: Bidley 360, 4993, 10131. 

 Perak : King's Collector 6012, 8848, 10883. 



\AE. parvijlora ; flowers smaller than in the typical form: leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, tapering to each end, 3*5 to 5*5 in. long and 1 to 1*5 

 in. broad. 



Perak : Scortechini Q18. 



vAR. rohusta, King ; calyx '35 in. long ; panicles, branches of panicle 

 and young twigs thicker than in the typical form. 



Perak: Scortechini 216. 



60, Eugenia subhorizontalis. King n. sp. A small tree; young 

 branches thinner than a goose-quill, terete, blackish-brown when dry. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong or elliptic-oblong, tapering to each end, 

 shortly and sharply acuminate, the base cuneate, the edges somewhat 

 recurved (when dry), the upper surface dark olivaceous-brown and 

 shining, the midrib depressed, all the nerves faint, lower surface dark 

 brown, not olivaceous, duller than the upper, the midrib very bold and 

 convex, the main-nerves 15 to 20 pairs, sub-horizontal, thin, but rather 

 prominent and shining, interarching to form a bold intramarginal line 

 *1 in. from the edge, the secondary nerves and reticulations rather 

 distinct ; length 4*5 to 7 in. ; breadth 1*5 to 2*3 in. ; petiole "5 to '6 in. 

 Panicles axillary and terminal, the former shorter than the leaves, the 

 latter often longer, lax : the branches rather sparse, spreading, compres- 

 sed, obscurely 4-angled. Flowers white, sessile, in clusters of 3 to 6 at 

 the ends of the branchlets, globose-clavate in bud. Calyx '25 in. long, 

 funnel-shaped, contracted to a pseudo-stalk for half its length : the limb 

 with 4 shallow, broad, rounded (sometimes acute) lobes. Fruit un- 

 known. 



Perak: Wray 2118, 2097. Distrib.— Sumatra, Hort. Bogor. 3350 

 under the name of E. pu7ictulata, Miq., which it is not. 



61. Eugenia Valetoniana, n. sp. King. A tree, 60 to 80 feet high; 

 young branches thicker than a crow-quill, terete, the bark pale-brown, 

 flakey. Leaves as in F. Griffithii but somewhat narrower and with 

 rather more numerous main -nerves. Flowers sessile in small terminal 

 or axillary panicles shorter than the leaves, with very few short, terete, 

 few-flowered cymose branches, or in small pedunculate cymes. Calyx 

 •3 in. long, clavate-campanulate, constricted into a short pseudo-stalk ; 

 the wide mouth truncate or with 4 deciduous, short, rounded lobes. 



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