182 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Teninsula. [No. 2, 



The foreg-oing description has been drawn up from Maingay's 

 Mnlacca specimens above quoted, which have been accepted by Sir 

 Joseph Hooker as of the species described by Planchon and Triana as K. 

 racemosa. These authors founded the species on a Wallichian specimen 

 in M. de Oandolle's Herbarium, without number or indication of locality, 

 which had been separated from some other Wallichian number, and 

 which bears the following note by Choisy " Mesua speciosa ? specimen im- 

 perfectum sine notula in herb. Wallichiano repertum.'^ This specimen I 

 have not seen. Of Wall. Cat. No. 4836, (Mesua Singaporiana,) there 

 is a specimen in Herb. Calc. ; and it is certainly different from Maingay's 

 177, being more like a Mesua than a Kayea. 



3. Kayea grandis, King, n. sp. A glabrous tree, 40 to 80 feet high. 

 Leaves large, coriaceous, oblong to elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, the edges 

 revolute (when dry), slightly narrowed towards the rounded or sub-acute 

 base; both surfaces rather dull (when dry), the 20 to 25 pairs of main 

 nerves sub-horizontal, prominent, the secondary nerves also prominent ; 

 length 9 to 18 in., breadth 3 to 4*5 in. ; petiole '4 to "75 in., smooth. 

 Flowers sub-globose in bud, pedicelled, in short few-flowered axillary 

 cymes crowded in the axils of the leaves, rarely solitary, about 1*25 in. in 

 diam. when expanded ; pedicels '5 in. Sepals rotund, the outer concave 

 very coriaceous ; the inner thin, not larger than the outer. Petals elliptic- 

 oblong, acute, larger than the sepals ('5 in. long or more). Kijje fruit 

 turbinate, 2 to 2*5 in. in diam. and 1*25 in. thick, leathery, completely 

 enveloped by the persistent, thickened, outer sepals. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 178), Cantlay No. 2354. Perak, 

 King's Collector. 



A very fine species ; at once distinguished by its large leaves and 

 depressed turbinate fruit. The fruit, and probably the whole plant, 

 abounds in yellow juice. According to M. Caatley the wood sinks in 

 water. 



4. Kayea Kunstleri, King, n. sp. A glabrous tree, 30 to 50 feet 

 high; the branchlets brownish, sub-striate, not tuberculate. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, sub-undulate, the base much 

 narrowed to petiole ; both surfaces rather dull (when dry) with a few 

 scattered opaque black dots ; the lower pale, sub-glaucescent (when dry) ; 

 length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1 to 2'25 in. ; petiole '25 in. to '4 in., rugose ; 

 nerves 20 to 24 pairs, unequal, prominent ; the lower horizontal, the upper 

 slightly curving upv/ards. Flower solitary, axillary or terminal, 1*5 to 

 2 in. diam., on a very short smooth pedicel, bracts at its base linear- 

 subulate : bud globose, smooth. Sepals unequal as in nervosa. Petals 

 oblong-acuminate, 1 in. long. Ripe fruit ovoid, gradually narrowing 

 into a short subulate apical beak. 



