1898.] Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 5 



with short linear bracts at the base of the pedicels, polygamo-dicecious. 

 Calyx-tube short, saucer-shaped, or longer and snbheraispheric ; teeth 

 5 (rarely 4), valvate, persistent. Petals 0. Stamens as many as the 

 calyx-teeth, inserted between them near the mouth of the calyx- 

 tube. Ovary free, 2-celled, with numerous horizontal or ascending 

 ovules attached to the axile placentas ; style long, filiform ; stigma capi- 

 tate, obscurely 2-lobed. Capsule surrounded at the base by the calyx, 

 globose, pubescent, crowned by the persistent style, 2-celled, dehiscing 

 so as to divide the style, fruit-pedicel deflexed. Seeds many, elongate- 

 ellipsoid, narrowly winged on 6ne side. Distrib. Species 5, extending 

 from the Khasia Hills to the Philippine Islands. 



Leaves membranous, usually narrowed to the base, nerves 



5 or 6 pairs, calyx less than *1 in. in diam. ... ... 1. C. paniculata. 



Leaves coriaceous, rounded or cordate at the base, nerves 

 7 or 8 pairs, calyx more than '1 in. in diam. ... ... 2. C. Griffithii. 



1. Crypteronia paniculata, Blume Bijdr. 1151. A tree 20-40 

 feet high ; young branches glabrous or sometimes puberulous. Leaves 

 membranous, oblong to oblong-lanceolate or more or less broadly 

 elliptic, bluntly acuminate or blunt, narrowed to the base, entire, 

 glabrous on both surfaces or slightly pubescent on the lower ; main 

 nerves 5 or 6 pairs, rather faint, curved ; length 3-6 in., breadth 1*25- 

 2*5 in. Flowers on short pedicels, very numerous, in long cylindric 

 pubescent or glabrous racemes longer than the leaves, the racemes 

 often panicled. Calyx less than *1 in. in diam., its teeth triangular or 

 triangular-lanceolate, acute. Stamens in the hermaphrodite flowers of 

 the same length as the calyx-teeth, longer in the male flowers. Capsules 

 globose-conic, puberulous or minutely velvety. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. 187, Pt. If, 86 ; For. Flora Burma, I, 519. C. pubescens, Blume 

 Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. II, 123 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 

 574 ; Griff. Notul. IV, 404 ; Ic. PL Asiat. t. 564, fig. II. 0. glabra, 

 Blume Mus. Bot. II, 123 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 574. 

 Henslovia pubescens, Wall. Cat. 4904 ; PI. As. Rar. Ill, 14 t. 22J ; Miq, 

 Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 716 ; Planch, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. IV, 

 477, t. XVI. B. Henslovia Hookeri, Wall. Cat. 8566. H t affinis, Planch. 

 Lond. Journ. Bot. IV, 477 (in part), H. leptostachys, Planch. Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. IV, 478. H. glabra, Wall. Cat. 4093 ; PL As. Bar. Ill, 14 ; 

 Planch, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. IV, 478 ; Miq. FJor. Ind. Bat. I, 

 Pt. I, 716. 



Penang ; Porter. Malacca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 650/2). 

 Perak ; King's Collector No. 5205. Andaman Islands ; very common ; 

 King's Collector. Distrib. Burma, Chittagong, Khasia. 



I can find nothing better to distinguish fhe species which have been named 



