226 King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, [No. 4, 



olivaceous-green when dry, the lower the paler ; main-nerves 7 or 8 

 pairs, curved, ascending, thin but prominent on the lower surface, 

 faint on the upper ; length 6 to 11 in. ; breadth 2*5 to 4*75 in. ; 

 petioles *25 to *4 in. ; stipules shorter than the petioles, broadly ovate, 

 acuminate, keeled. Flowers '25 in. long, in dense shortly peduncled 

 or sessile axillary minutely bracteolate fascicles a little longer than 

 the petioles. Calyx very short, cupular, with 4 broad shallow teeth. 

 Corolla tubular, slightly inflated above the middle ; the tube villous 

 inside ; the lobes of the limb shorter than the tube, glabrous, imbricate, 

 oblong, sub-acute. Anthers sessile in the tube '1 in. long oblong. 

 Style cylindric, as long as the corolla, divided into 2 linear hairy arms ; 

 ovary with 2 bi-ovulate cells. Fruit globular-ovoid, crowned by the 

 faint scar of the calyx, glabrous, '4 in. long, and about "3 in. in diam. 



Perak: Wray 60,2879,3469; Ridley 5 5 44; King's Collector 2366, 

 2697, 2782, 5277, 6253. 



This closely resembles specimens in Herb. Kew. named Vangueria palembanica 

 Teysm. & Binn. which is a Diplospora. 



4. Diplospora velutina, King & Gamble n. sp. A small tree; 

 young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, densely covered with 

 short dark-cinereous tomentum like the stipules and petioles. Leaves- 

 coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, sometimes slightly obovate, the apex ab- 

 ruptly contracted into a narrow acute point about 1 in. long, the base 

 rounded or slightly narrowed ; upper surface glabrous, shining, the 

 midrib and main-nerves depressed ; the lower with bulbous-based hairs 

 in the interspaces between the nerves ; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, 

 slightly curved, ascending, stout, the latter as well as the bold midrib 

 and transverse curved veins very pubescent ; length 8 to 10 in. ; 

 breadth 3 to 4*5 in. ; petioles about *2 in. ; stipules about as long as 

 the petioles, keeled, triangular, very acuminate. Flowers *25 in. long, 

 sessile, in dense sessile axillary heads not much longer than the 

 petioles. Calyx very short, cupular, obscurely lobed. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped, glabrous except the densely villous throat ; the limb with 

 4 oblong, broad, slightly emarginate lobes. Anthers sagittate. Style 

 slender, with 2 short, linear, compressed stigmatic lobes. Fruit un- 

 known. 



Perak: King's Collector 3142. 



5. Diplospora Kunstleri, King & Gamble n. sp. A small 

 tree ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, deciduously puberul- 

 ous like the stipules, petioles, and lower surfaces of the midrib and 

 main-nerves, otherwise glabrous. Leaves sub- coriaceous, oblanceolate 

 to elliptic or oblong, shortly, abruptly, and bluntly acuminate, the base 

 rounded or slightly cuneate; both surfaces of rather a dark-brown 



