JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Vol. JLXXII. Part II. — NATURAL SCIENCE, 



No. 4.— 1903, 



Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. — By Sir George King, 

 K.C.I.E., LL.D., F.R.S., late Superintendent of the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta, and J. Svtkes Gamble, C.I.E., F.R.S., late of the 

 Indian Forest Department. 



No. 14 



The present contribution contains an account by Mr. Gamble of the 

 few species belonging to the Natural Order Caprifoliacese, which have so far 

 been collected in the Malay Peninsula and adjacent Islands. But the larger 

 part of it is occupied by a joint account by the authors of the species of 

 the Order Rubiacese, which are characterised by having more ovules than 

 one in each cell of the ovary. The key which precedes the text is only 

 for these genera. In a paper which the authors hope soon to submit to 

 the Society they will deal with the species of the genera which have only 

 a single ovule in each ovarian cell ; and that paper will, in like manner, 

 be preceded by a key to these uniovular genera. 



With the exception of the important family of Leguminosse, which 

 was elaborated entirely by Major D. Prain, of the Botanic Garden, 

 Calcutta, and of one genus of Melastomacese, which was done in conjunc- 

 tion with Dr. 0. Stapf, chief assistant in the Kew Herbarium, the whole 

 of the orders dealt with in the preceding thirteen parts of these Materials 

 have been worked, out by Sir George King. With the view of expedit- 

 J. ii. 17 



