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



Duabanga sonneratioides, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII, 178. 

 A tree 60-100 feet high. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong to ovate- 

 oblong, 7-12 in. long and 2*5-4 in. broad, glabrous, glaucous beneath. 

 Flowers 2-2*5 in. across, on thick- jointed pedicels tapering to the base ; 

 panicle short, few-flowered, drooping. Petals 4-7, about 1 in. long. 

 Capsule ovoid-globose, 1-1*5 in. in diam. Hook. fil. 111. Him. PI. t. 11 ; 

 Kurz For. Mor. Burm. I, 525 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 579. 

 J), grandiflora, Walp. Rep. II, 114. Lagerstrcemia grandiffora, Roxb. 

 Hort. Beng. 38 ; Flor. Ind. II, 503 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 93 ; Wall. Cat. 

 2111 ; Blume Mus. Bot. I, 109. Leptospartion grandiflorum, Griff. 1c. 

 PI. Asiat. t. 591. 



Perak ; Scortechini, King's Collector 5912. Andamans and Nicobars, 

 King's Collectors. Distrib. Burma, Assam, Khasia, Eastern Himalaya. 



6. Sonneratia, Linn. f. 



Ever-green trees, growing near the sea, glabrous. Leaves opposite, 

 petioled, coriaceous, entire. Floivers without bracts, large, three to- 

 gether at the summits of the branches, or axillary and solitary. Calyx 

 thick, coriaceous ; lobes 4-8, lanceolate, valvate. Petals 0, or as many 

 as the calyx-lobes and linear-oblong, Stamens numerous, inserted in a 

 circular band on the calyx-tube. Ovary nearly free, or adnate at the 

 base to the calyx-tube, many-celled ; style long, stigma capitate ; ovules 

 numerous, ascending, placentas axile. Berry subglobose, supported by 

 the persistent calyx, 10-15-celled. Seeds very many, small, curved, 

 angular, embedded in pulp ; cotyledons convolute. Distrib. Species 

 4-5 ; on the tropical sea- shores of the Eastern hemisphere. 



With petals ... ... ... ... ... 1. S. acida. 



Without petals : — 



Calyx in bud ovoid, obtuse ... ... ... ... 1. S. acida, 



var. Griffithii. 



Calyx in bud narrowly ellipsoid, tapering to both ends ... 2. 8. alba. 



1. Sonneratia acida, Linn. fil. Suppl. 252. A small tree 10-35 

 feet high, the branchlets jointed and 4-angled. Leaves oblong to oblong- 

 obovate or obovate, tapering into a broad short petiole, blunt and 

 sometimes retuse ; length 2-3 in., breadth 1*35 to 2 in. in the obovate 

 forms. Flower-buds solitary, ellipsoid, the calyx-tube not angled; the 

 calyx when fully developed 1 in. long, its lobes 6-8, the lobes triangular, 

 reflexed. Petals linear, slightly broader towards tlie apex than at the 

 base. Style exserted, sometimes 3 in. long, stigma capitate. Capsule 

 depressed-globose, sometimes as much as 2 in. in diam., the apex some- 

 what concave, the walls thick. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 38 ; Flor. Ind. II, 

 506 ; Roth Nov. Sp. 233 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 231 ; Wall. Cat. 3641 ; 



