1898.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 7 



Leaves not glaucous beneath. 



Calyx 8- or 9-ribbed, the teeth as many as the ribs and 

 alternate with them ; flowers 1*5 in. in diam. ; leaves 

 2-3-25 in. long ... ... ... ... 3. L. ovalifolia. 



Calyx 12-14-ribbed; the teeth half as many as the 

 ribs, the ribs opposite the teeth broader ; flowers 2-3 

 in. in diam. j leaves 3"5-8 in. long ... ... 4. L. Flos-Reginse. 



1. ■ Lagerstrcemia floribunda, Jack in Mai. Misc. I, 38. A tree 

 15-30 feet -high. Leaves ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, the 

 base rounded, sub-sessile ; main nerves 8-12 pairs, sub-horizontal or 

 curving upwards ; both, surfaces minutely reticulate when dry, the upper 

 glabrous and shining, the lower with deciduous stellate pale brown 

 pubescence, or glabrous; length 5-7 in., breadth 2-275 in. Panicle 

 much longer than the leaves, terminal, erect ; the branches long, race- 

 moid, the ultimate branchlets cymose, ascending, everywhere (as also the 

 calyces, ) covered with more or less deciduous wooly rusty pubescence. 

 Flowers 1*5 in. in diam., on short pedicels. Calyx turbinate in bud, 

 boldly 12-ridged, each alternate ridge passing into one of the 6 

 triangular calyx-teeth and often forming a mucro at its apex. Petals 

 sub-orbicular, with wavy edges, rose-coloured changing to whitish. 

 Stamens unequal, the outer rows the longest. Capsule *5 in. lono- 

 elliptic, minutely cinereous-tomenfcose, half enveloped in the calyx 

 style persistent. DC. Prodr. Ill, 93 ; Wall. Cat. 2115 ; Miq. Flor. Ind.' 

 Bat. I, pt. I, 623 {not Blume Mus. Bot. II, t. 41) ; Griff. Notul. IV, 509 ; 

 Kurz For. Flor. I, 522 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 577^ 



Kedah; Curtis 2602. PenanG; King. Trang; King's Collector 

 1407. Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 653/2. Distrib. Burma 

 Siam, China. 



2. Lagerstrcemia hypoleuca, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. for 1872 

 Pt. II, p. 30. A tree 60-70 feet high ; all parts except the inflorescence 

 glabrous. Leaves thickly membranous, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic 

 or oblong-elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base rounded ; main nerves 

 8-12 pairs, spreading, not prominent; both surfaces rather distinctly 

 reticulate when dry, the upper shining, the lower glaucous ; length 

 5-8 in., breadth 2-3 in., petiole '3 in. long. Panicles minutely cinereous- 

 velvety, longer than the leaves, terminal, few-branched, the branches 

 with rather short cymose sub-horizontal branchlets. Flowers about 

 1*25 or 1*5 in. in diam., on jointed whitish unequal pedicels. Calyx 

 turbinate in bud, minutely whitish-velvety, boldly 10-ribbed, the 

 alternate ribs excurrent into the 5 triangular acute mucronate lobes 

 of the mouth. Petals lilac, oblong, wavy, '5 in. long. Capsule woody 

 oblong, mucronate, about *65 in. lon«jf. For. Flor. Burm., I, 523- 

 Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 577. 



