78 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Feninsula. No. 1, 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3387; Maingay 708. Perak : Wray 

 2927, 3486 ; Scortechini 1914 ; King's Collector — many numbers. 



3. Alanguim ebenaceum, Griffith MSS. A tree 30 to 70 feet 

 liigli ; young branclies rather slender, smooth, dark- coloured wben dry. 

 Leaves coriaceous, oblong, slightly acuminate, the base cuneate or round- 

 ed ; upper surface glabrous, the lower Tvith numerous minute pale 

 scales ; main-nerves 13 to 16 pairs, spreading, very slightly curved, 

 prominent- on the lower surface ; length 6 to 10 in.; breadth 2*5 to 4 

 in. ; petiole '35 to '8 in. long. Cymes from as long to twice as long as 

 the petioles, on short peduncles, axillary, branched, 6- to 12-flowered. 

 Flowers sessile, "65 in. long, and only '1 in. in diam. Calyx cupular 

 slightly grooved ; the mouth truncate, slightly toothed. Petals 6 

 (sometimes only 5), linear, minutely pubescent externally. Stamens 

 6 (or 5) ; anthers about as long as the petals, linear ; filaments short, 

 compressed, woolly in front. Style cylindric-clavate, shortly hairy ; 

 stigma pyramidal. Fruit ovate in outline, compressed, faintly ridged, 

 about 1 in. long and '6 in. wide. Marlea ehenacea^ Clarke in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. I, 742. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3384. Maingay (K.D.) 706. Perak : 

 Wray 3302; Scortechini 1963; Kings Collector 3252, 5363, 6562, 6626. 



4. Alangium Ridleyi, King. A tree ; young branches covered 

 with minute deciduous scales and hairs, rather slender. Leaves cori- 

 aceous, elliptic, sometimes slightly obovate, shortly and bluntly acumi- 

 nate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous ; main-nerves 10 pairs 

 spreading, slightly curved upwards, bold and prominent on the lower 

 surface ; connecting veins parallel, faint ; length 6 to 8 in. ; breadth 

 2*5 to 3*5 in. ; petioles *9 to 13 in. Cymes as long as or rather shorter 

 than the petioles, sessile, 3- to 5-flowered. Flowers nearly 1 in. long, 

 •25 in. in diam. their pedicels '2 to '25 in. long, minutely velvety- 

 tomentose like the outside of the calyx and petals. Calyx campanulate, 

 slightly furrowed, the mouth wide truncate. Petals 6, thick, grooved 

 and minutely hairy inside, oblong-lanceolate, sub-acute. Stamens some- 

 what shorter than the petals ; anthers narrowly linear, with a tuft of 

 hairs at the base ; filaments short flat almost glabrous. Style slender 

 clavate ; stigma deeply furrowed, disc 6-angled cushion-like, glabrous. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Singapore, in the Botanic Garden Jungle, Bidley 4941. 



Ridley's specimens are without fruit. Mr. Wray has sent from Perak some 

 specimens (Herb. Wray 3632) of a plant in fruit which in spite of its considerably 

 larger leaves (nearly a foot long), may be conspecific with. this. These fruits are 

 narrowly ellipsoid, much compressed and deeply furrowed, narrowly to the base, 

 ess so to the truncate apex. A. costata, Boerl. MSS. is the nearest ally of both. 



