128 G. Kin^ — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan PeninMila. [No. 1. 



indistinct; the lower brown with many minute papillae especially on the 

 })romineht midrib ; main-nerves 10 to 14 pairs, curving upwards and 

 interarching *! in. from the margin, pale, and prominent on the lower 

 surface ; length 4*5 to 7 in.; breadth 1*35 to 2*25; petiole '3 to '4 in. 

 Panicles small, several together, shorter than the leaves, terminal or 

 from the upper leaf-axils, brandling from the base, the branches spread- 

 ing, papillose, stout, 4-angled. Flowers few, sessile, '25 in. long 

 (including the stamens), truncate in bud. Calyx campanulate, minutely 

 papillose externally ; the mouth wide and with 4 short, broad, sub-acute 

 lobes. Petals calyptrate. Fi'uit globular, the apex with a circular pit 

 snn^ounded by the wide, short, cupular remains of the calyx, smooth, 

 '4 to '5 in. in diarn. 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 751. Singapore; Ridley 4657, 4979, 

 6420, 6421. Perak : King's Collector 3724, 6758, 7536. 



A species recognisable by its short stout panicles with short widely campannlate 

 flowers, and pustulate stems and panicles. The leaves (when dry) are distinguished 

 by their colour, greenish above and brown beneath. 



91. Eugenia Koordersiana, King n. sp. A tree, 40 to 80 feet high 

 young branches somewhat thicker than a crow-qnill, terete, dark pur 

 plish-brown when dry. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or narrowly ovate 

 raiely oblanceolate, shortly caudate-acuminate, tlie base cuneate ; botli 

 surfaces (when dry) very dark brown, the lower slightly paler ; main- 

 nerVes 8 to 10 pairs, cui-ving slightly and interarchinor -1 in. or niore 

 from the edge, impressed on the upper surface sliirhtly prominent on 

 the lower ; length 2 75 to 375 in. ; breadth 1 to 175 in. ; petiole about 

 •3 in. Panicles terminal, usually much longer than the leaves, corym- 

 bose, many-branched, the peduncle and branches sharply 4-angled, 

 compressed at the nodes; branch lets 3- to 5-flowered at the apex. 

 Flowers white, clavate in bud^ sessile. Calyx cnmpanulate, 4-angled, 

 •J5 in. long, conti'acted for half its length into a pseudo-stalk; the 

 mouth with 4 deep, broad, rounded lobes. Petals 4, sub-rotund, calyp- 

 trate. Fruit unknown. 



Perak : Scortechini 257 ; King's Collector 6208, 6233, 6385. 

 When dry the leaves and panicles of this are very dark-coloured. Tt is allied 

 to E. psendo-suhtilis and E, Clarkeana, but differs from both in leaves I have 

 named it in honour of Dr. S. H. Koorders of the Forest Dept. in Netherlands India. 



92. Eugenia simulans, King n. sp. A tree, 30 to 40 feet high, 

 with pendulous branches : young branches terete, the very youngest 

 compressed and about as thick as a crow-quill, brown. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, shortly and rather bluntly 

 acuminate, the base cuneate ; both sides dark-brown and shining when 

 dry, the lower paler and duller, slightly olivaceous ; nerves numeroas, 



