JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



Vol. LXVII. Part II. — NATURAL SCIENCE. 

 No. I. — 1898. 



Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. — By George King, 

 K.C.I.B., M.B., LL.D., F.R.S., Superintendent of the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta. 



No. 10. 

 I had hoped in the present contribution to have completed, for 

 these Materials, my account of the whole of the remaining Natural 

 Orders of Galyciflorse. This hope has, however, been frustrated by sick- 

 ness. I have decided therefore to offer now to the Society the account 

 of the five Orders which I have been able to elaborate ; trusting, at 

 some time in the near future, to deal with the remaining Orders of 

 the Class. Following the sequence adopted by Sir Joseph Hooker in 

 his Flora of British India, those treated of in the present paper 

 come to be numbered as below ; Nos. 48 Lythracese, 49 Onagracese, 50 

 Samydacese, 52 Gucurbitaceas, and 56 Araliacew. And those which re- 

 main to be described would be Nos. 46 Myrtacese, 47 Melastomacese, 51 

 Bassijloracem, 53 Begoniacese, 54 Ficoidese, 55 Umbelliferse, and 57 

 Gornacese. After finishing the Calyciflorm, I hope, in collaboration with 

 my friend and successor Dr. D. Prain, to describe the families which 

 are embraced in the gamopetalous and apetalous groups. 



Order XLVIII. LZTHRACE^]. 

 Trees, shrubs or herbs ; branches often quadrangular. Leaves entire, 

 opposite, sometimes alternate or whorled ; stipules 0. Inflorescence 

 various, often in cymes or panicles. Flowers hermaphrodite, regular, 

 J. II. 1 



