1890.] G. King— Mai i'viali for a Flora of the Malayan Teninsula. 199 



bescent ovary, sub-globular seeds, and in its often having 5 styles. There 

 may be two species covered by the foregoing description : but I cannot 

 find a constant character to separate them. I believe this to be Blume's 

 S. Noronhiana and Be Candolle's S. nudiflora : but, not having been able 

 to consult any authentic specimen of the former and only moderately good 

 ones of the latter, I am not quite satisfied of the identity with, them of 

 this common Perak tree. The genus Sauranja is a very puzzling one. 

 The species come very close together, and Miquel's descriptions of the 

 numerous species v^hich he named are so incomplete tliat it is almost 

 impossible to recognise them with any certainty. 



3. Saurauja cauliflora, B1. Bijdr. 128, var. calycina, King. A 

 tree : young branches and petioles densely covered with long paleaceous 

 yellowish hairs. Leaves elliptic-oblong, shortly and sharply acuminate, 

 the edges faintly aristate-serrate, the base acute ; upper surface gla- 

 brous ; lower pale brown when dry, strigose on the midrib nerves and 

 veins ; main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, spreading, prominent beneath ; length 

 6 to 9 in., breadth 2-25 to 2"'75 in., petiole about 1 in. Flowers '4 in. in 

 diam., on long pedicels, crowded in large fascicles from flat tubercles on 

 the larger branches and stem; pedicels from "75 to 1'5 in. long, tomen- 

 tose-squamulose, rufous. Sepals rotund, the outer densely tomentose- 

 squamulose ; the inner almost glabrous, veined. Petals obovate-oblong, 

 blunt, united in their lower third, membranous, nerved, scarcely so large 

 as the sepals. Stamens about 25, adherent to the corolla, elongate-ovate, 

 adnate, dehiscing by two large apical pores. Ovary scaly, '3-celled, multi- 

 ovulate. Styles 3, united by their bases only. Fruit enveloped by the 

 slightly accrescent calyx, sub-glabrous, 8-celled. Seeds small, ovate- 

 rotund, compressed, foveolate, pale brown. DC. Mem. Soc. Geneve I, 

 425 ; Korth. Verb. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 126 ; Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 273 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. ii, p. 486. Ann. Mus. Ludg. Bat. IV, 106. 

 Perak : Batu Kurau. Scortechini, l^o. 1614. 



This differs in no respect from the plant described by Blume, of 

 which I have seen good specimens, except in its larger sepals which are 

 densely tomentose-squamulose externally. 



7. Ptrenaria, Blume. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves serrate, large and sub-membranous. Floivers 

 sub-sessile, axillary, erect or nodding. Sepals usually 5, unequal, gra- 

 duating from the bracts to the petals. Petals connate at the base. 

 Stamens very numerous, mostly connate, adnate to the base of the petals. 

 Ovary 5-celled ; styles 6, free, or partially united ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 attached laterally. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent. Seeds oblong, stout, 

 with a thick woody testa, wingless ; albumen ; cotyledons large, crum- 



