200 G. King ^Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 2, 



pled or conduplicate ; radicle inferior, inflexed. Disfcrib. Malay Penin- 

 sula and Indian Archipelago. Species about 7. 



1. Pyrenaria acuminata, Planch, ex Choisy Mem. Ternstr. 84. A 

 shrubby tree, 15 to 30 feet high : young branches densely tawny or ful- 

 vous-tomentose. Leaves elongate-oblanceolafce, sometimes oblong-elliptic, 

 acuminate, minutely serrulate, the base attenuate ; upper surface gla- 

 brous, shining, the midrib and nerves puberulous, greenish when dry ; the 

 lower softly pubescent, minutely papillose ; the midrib stout, tomentose ; 

 main nerves about 10 pairs, sometimes forking and always interarching 

 about '25 in. from the margin ; length 6 to 12 in., breadth 2 to 3"5 in. ; 

 petiole '4 in., tomentose. Flowers 1*5 in. in diam., shortly pedicellate, 

 solitary, crowded towards the ends of the branches in the axils of leaves 

 or of abortive leaves ; pedicels recurved, tomentose ; bracteoles lanceo- 

 late, close to the calyx, tawny-silky externally as are sepals and petals. 

 Sepals and petals graduated in size from the bracts inwards, broadly 

 ovate, acuminate, glabrous and brownish internally ; anthers ovate, 

 adnate, only about one-fourth the length of the slender filaments. Ovary 

 ovoid, sericeous : styles united in the lower half, free above : stigmas 

 small. Fruit depressed-globose, 1*5 in. in diam., and 1 in. long ; the 

 pericarp sericeous, becoming glabrescent, leathery, sub-succulent. Seeds 

 few, large, sub-reniform, compressed. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. ii, p. 

 493 ; Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 290. Ternstrcemia ? macropliylla^ 

 Wall. Cat. 3663. Gordonia {Camellia ?) acuminaf-a, Wall. Oat. 3664. 



Singapore, Malacca, Penang and Perak ; at low elevations. 



2. Pyrenaria Kunstleri, King, n. sp. A tree 15 to 30 feet high ; all 

 parts glabrous except the very apices of the branches, the youngest leaf- 

 buds, and the flowers. Leaves elliptic-oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, faintly serrate in the upper three-fourths ; the base entire, acute ; 

 both surfaces, but especially the lower, much pustulate when dry ; the 

 lower brown, the upper greenish ; midrib and 6 to 8 pairs of erecto- 

 patent main nerves rather prominent below, the latter interarching '3 

 to '4 in. from the edge ; secondary nerves prominent ; length 5-5 to 7 in., 

 breadth I'S to 25 in., petiole "3 to '4 in; Flowers -75 in. in diam., on 

 peduncles '1 in. long ; bracteoles 2, opposite, broad, close to the calyx. 

 Sepals rotund, coriaceous, pabescent externally. Petals larger than the 

 sepals, rotund, glabrous, fleshy with thin edges, white. Stamens nu- 

 merous : anthers broadly ovate, apiculate, 4 or 5 times as long as the 

 slightly flattened filaments. Ovary ovoid-conic, ridged, adpressed-pabes- 

 cent, 5-celled. Style short, conic, glabrous, 5-ridged. Stigmas small, 

 acute, connivent. Fruit 1*25 in. long, and '9 in. in diam., ovoid, blunt- 

 ly 5-ridged, pubescent. Seeds few, ovate, sub-compressed, "6 in. long. 



Perak ; at elevations of 500 to 2000 feet. King's Collector. 



