8 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



Andaman Islands; Kurz, Train, King's Collectors. Great Coco 

 Island ; Train. 



3. Lagerstrcemia ovalifolia, Teysm. et Binn. in Nat. Tijdsch. 

 Ned. Ind. II. (1840) 306. A tree 50 or even 100 feet high. Leaves 

 oblong, ovate or oblong-obovate, acute, slightly narrowed to the base ; 

 main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curved, ascending, slightly prominent on the 

 lower surface when dry ; upper surface greenish with minute black 

 dots when dry, glabrescent except sometimes the minutely pubescent 

 nerves ; the lower brown when dry, glabrescent ; length 2-3'25 in., 

 breadth 1*25-2 in., petiole "25 in. Panicle terminal, puberulous, 3-8 

 in. long, few-flowered ; the branches few, sub-horizontal, cymose, puberu- 

 lous below ; the pedicels minutely velvety, cinereous. Flowers 1*5 in. 

 in diam., on jointed velvety pedicels. Calyx turbinate, minutely 

 cinereous-velvety, with 8 or 9 bold winged ridges not passing into the 

 calyx- teeth. Calyx-teeth 8 or 9, acutely triangular, the edges thickened 

 and reflexed. Petals (with claw) *75 in. long, orbicular, clawed, purple, 

 their edges slightly undulate. Capsule elliptic-ovoid, blunt, minutely 

 velvety, *75 in. long, and *6 in. in diam. Kriudk. Arch. Ill, 440 ; PL 

 Nov. Hort. Bog. (ed. Vriese) 20. Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. II, 127 ; 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 621; Koorders and Yaleton, Bijdr. I, 193. 

 L. celebica, HI. 1. c. ]27. L. hexaytera, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 623; 

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



Malacca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 653). Perak ; King's Collectors 

 8701, 10025 & 10532. Pahang; Ridley 2640. 



I can find no character to separate L. hexaptera, Miq. from the older species of 

 Teysmann and Binnindik. Miquel's name is moreover an nnhappy one, as the 

 calyx-teeth are usually 9 and not 6. 



4. Lagerstrcemia Flos-Begins, Retz (1789) Obs. V, 25. A tree 

 30-60 feet high, all parts except the inflorescence glabrous. Leaves 

 oblong to elliptic-oblong, acute, narrowed (rarely obtuse) at the base, 

 shortly petiolate ; main nerves 10-13 pairs, curving upwards, slightly 

 prominent beneath when dry ; both surfaces minutely reticulate, 

 glabrous, the upper shining, the lower dull and of a dark brown colour 

 when dry, length 3*5-8 in., breadth 1*75-3 in., petiole '25-4 in. 

 Panicle terminal, longer than the leaves, its ultimate branchlets cymose. 

 Flowers from 2-3 in. in diam., on rather thick greyish unequal pedicels. 

 Calyx turbinate, with 12-14 prominent stout ridges ; those opposite the 

 calyx-teeth broader, the mouth with 6-7 acute triangular spreading 

 thick coriaceous teeth thickened at the edges. Petals sub-orbicular, 

 clawed, corrugated and with undulate edges. Stamens all equal in 

 length. Capsule oblong to sub-globose, minutely apiculate, '8-1*25 in. 



' long, and , 6-*75in. in diam. Kurz in For. Flora Burm, I, 524 ; Clarke in 



