20G G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 2, 



10. Archytjia, Martius. 



Glabrous shrubs or trees with semiamplexicaul leaves. Flowers on 

 a lateral, compressed, 1 to 4-flowered, peduncle. Bracts large, leaf-like. 

 Sepals and petals each 5. Stamens numerous, 5-adelphous ; anthers 

 versatile. Ovary 5-celled ; styles distinct, or wholly united ; ovules nu- 

 merous, in many imbricating rows. Capsule acuminate, septicidal from 

 below, with a persistent axis. Seeds linear-subcylindric, albumen scanty. 

 Distrib. Trop. Amer. and Indian Archipelago. Species 3. 



1. Archyt^a Vahlii, Choisy Mem. Ternstr. 73. A glabrous 

 shrub (sometimes epiphytic) or small tree : the young branches, pale, 

 smooth. Leaves thinly coriaceous, sessile, narrowly oblanceolate, acute, 

 entire, slightly narrowed to the truncate or slightly amplexicaul base ; 

 nerves about 15 pairs, straight, erect, interarching with an intra-mar- 

 ginal nerve; length 3 to 45 in., breadth '5 to '75 in. Flowers 1 to 1*25 

 in. in diam.; peduncles crowded towards the end of the branches, 

 coloured; bracts close to the flowers, oblong, sub-serrulate, '5 to '75 in. 

 long. Sepals ovate-rotund, coriaceous- Petals obovate, much larger 

 than the sepals, membranous, veined, pink. Fruit '75 in. long, narrow- 

 ly ovoid, acuminate, crowned by the persistent styles. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. i, 294. Pierre Fl. For. Coch. -Chine, t. 129. Ploiarium eleganSj 

 Korth. Yerh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 135, t. 25. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. ii, 

 491. Hypericum alter^iifolium, Vahl. Symb. ii, t. 42 ; DC. Prodr. i, 

 445 ; Wall. Cat. 4806. 



In all the provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 

 Distrib. The Malayan Archipelago. 



** Note on the fruit of Xanthophyllum Scortechinii, King. 



Since the pages describing the genus Xanthophyllum were printed 

 off, I have received from Mr. Curtis, of the Forest Department, Penang, 

 complete specimens of this species ; and I am therefore now able to 

 add to the account of it given on p. 140 the following description of the 

 young fruit. 



Fruit globular or ovoid-globular, '75 to 1 in. in diam., shortly apicu- 

 late, smooth, shining ; the pericarp very thick. 



Ripe fruit is still a desideratum. 



