140 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Pemusula. [No. 2, 



►secondary nerves and minute reticulations distinct ; length 9 to 14^ in., 

 breadth 2"o to 8'25 in., petiole '75 to 1 in. Flowers '4 in. long, their 

 pedicels longer than the calyx. Panicles axillary, few-branched, 3 to 

 6 in. long. Sepals nearly equal, broadly ovate, fleshy with thin edges, 

 l)uberulous. Petals oblong, obtuse, glabrescent, the keel pubescent. 

 Filaments flat, puberulous. Ovary surrounded by a shallow glabrous 

 wavy disk, ovoid, minutely tomentose, grooved, 4-ovuled ; style pubes- 

 cent, slightly curved. Fruit globose with a conical apex, deeply rugose, 

 verrucose; diam., '35 in, (young). 



Perak, King's Collector ; Nos. 10614 and 10804. 



Ripe fruit of this is unknown. This species, in leaf characters, 

 approaches the Bornean X. cordatum, Korth. ; but the fruit of that is 

 smooth ; of this the fruit is deeply corrugated-rugose as in X Palem- 

 hanicmii and eurliynchum. 



12. Xanthoptllum stipitatum, a. W. Benn. in Hook. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I. 210. A tree with slender, smooth, brown branches. Leaves sub- 

 coriaceous, ovate or elliptic, shortly and obtusely caudate-acuminate ; 

 upper Surface dull, the nerves obsolete ; lower shining, the 3 to 4 pairs 

 of nerves indistinct ; length 1*75 to 2*25 in., breadth '75 to 1 in., petiole 

 •15 in. Racemes slender, axillary, longer than the leaves, pubescent. 

 Floivers '4 in long, shorter than their slender pedicels. Sepals sub- 

 equal, oblong, obtuse, glabrescent. Petals twice as long as sepals, 

 spathulate, oblong. Filaments thickened and hairy in their lower 

 half. Ovary stipitate, cottony ; style sparsely hairy ; ovules 8 to 10. 



Malacca. 



Hitherto known only by specimens from Malacca ; fruit not col- 

 lected. 



13. Xanthophyllum Scortechinii, King, n, sp. A tall glabrous 

 tree. Leaves thinly coriaceous, drying brown, ovate, obtusely acuminate, 

 the base slightly cuneate, shining on both surfaces ; nerves 3 pairs, sub- 

 erect, not prominent ; length 2 to 2*25 in., breadth 1 in., petiole '35 in. 

 Flotvers handsome, *6 in. long, their pedicels '35 in. Bacemes axillary, 

 solitary, 2 in. long, few-flowered. Sepals fleshy, glabrous with ciliolate 

 edges ; the three outer ovate blunt, the two inner rotund. Petals broad- 

 ly obovate, clawed, glabrescent, the keel pubescent. Filaments as long 

 as the petals, flat, pubescent ; anthers short, ovate. Ovary shortly 

 stalked, elongated-ovoid, ridged, glabrous, 6-ovuled ; style little curved, 

 glabrous ; stigma capitate : disc small, annular, glabrous. 



Perak, Father Scortechini, N^o. 2079. 



Of this distinct and handsome species fruit is as yet unknown. 



14. Xanthopiiylldm eltjpticum, Korth. in Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. 

 Bat. I, 276. A glabrous tree 30 to 60 feet high ; branchlets slender, 



