1901.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 141 



specimena bearingthe name I would refer to B. spicata, Bl. Ifc is however a widely 

 distributed and common tree in ludia and particularly so in Burma and it is quite 

 likely to occur in Quedah and the northern part of Perak. 



11. ; Barbingtonia SPICATA, Blume Bijdr. 1097. A tree, 30 or 40 feet 

 high ; young branches slender, smooth, brown when dry. Leaves oblong- 

 oblanceolate, tapering to the short petiole, the apex acute or sub- 

 acute, the edges distinctly serrate-dentate ; main-nerves 8 to .10 pairs, 

 curving slightly, ascending ; length 4 to 8 in. ; breadth 1"4 to 2"4 in. ; 

 petiole '2 to '3 in. Spikes axillary or terminal, exceeding the leaves, 

 very slender, pendulous ; bracteoles minute, caducous. Flowers small, 

 numerous but not crowded, sessile or with a very short pedicel, about 

 •5 in. in diameter when expanded. Calyx with obconic, rusty-pubescent 

 tube less than '1 in. long, and 4 broad, rounded teeth half as long. 

 Stamens '5 in. long. Fruit sub-globose, glabrous, crowned by the 

 enlarged calyx-lobes, about '6 in. in diam. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1, Pt., 

 1, 489; Vriese Ned. Kruidk. Arch. HI, 41. Stravidium spicatum, DC. 

 Prodr. Ill, 289; Blume in Van Houtte Flore des Serres VII, 24. 

 S. spicatum and glohosum^ Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. II, Bot. 1, 



85. Gustavia globosa, Span. Trans. Linn. Soc. XV, 204. ? Stravidium 

 de7iussum, pubescens, reticulatuvi, Horsfieldii and serratum^ Miers I.e. 81 to 



86. ?8. coccineum, DC. Prodr. Ill, 289 ; Miers I.e. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2425; Berry 1221 ; Maingay (K.D.) 765. 

 Penang : Curtis 397. Trang : King's Collector 1404. Perak : King's 

 Collector 4681. Province Wellesley : Ridley 7043. Distrib. — Java, 

 Borneo ; Motley 537, 582 ; Zollinger Cat. 534. 



This resembles B. acutangula, Gaertn., but differs in having sessile flowers, 

 shorter stamens, and sub-globose not elongated angular fruit. The leaves also are 

 less obovate. It is a widely distributed species and therefore presents various 

 forms, many of which have been treated as species, 



11. Planchonia, Blume. 



Trees with alternate, membranous, crenulate, pinnately-nerved leaves 

 without dots, crowded towards the ends of the branches. Floivers white 

 or yellowish-green, in short terminal racemes. Calyx-tube turbinate, 

 little produced beyond the ovary ; its mouth with 4 imbricate lobes. 

 Petals 4, imbricate. Stamens very numerous, in several series, slightly 

 united at the base into a ring, the inner without anthers, the filaments 

 of all long and slender. Ovary inferior, 3- 4-celled, crowned by an 

 annular disc. Style 1, long, slender, crowned by the small stigma ; 

 ovules many in each cell. Fruit large, fibrous, ovoid, crowned by the 

 persistent calyx-lobes, 1-3-celled. Seeds several, ellipsoid, the testa 

 coriaceous, albumen absent, cotyledons short. Distrib. — Three species; 

 littoral, from the Andaman islands to Australia. 



