1898.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 17 



slightly narrowed and somewhat oblique at the very base ; both surfaces 

 glabrous, minutely reticulate when dry ; main nerves 10-12 pairs, 

 spreading, curving upwards, slightly prominent beneath ; length 6-9 in., 

 breadth 2 75-3"5 in., petiole *5-'75 in. Glomeruli axillary, large and 

 many-flowered ; buds sub-globular, glabrous ; pedicels about *25 in. long 

 glabrous, the bracteoles minute. Calyx-segments ovate, glabrous ; 

 staminai tube wide, nearly glabrous, adherent below to the sepals ; 

 filaments 10, as long as the tube and as the alternating villous stami- 

 nodes. Ovary elongate-pyramidal, 3-angled, stigma capitate ; fruit un- 

 known. 



Andaman Islands ; King's Collectors, 



5. Casearia esculenta, Roxb. Flor. Ind. II, 422. A shrub or 

 small tree as high as 20 or 30 feet ; young branches pale, striate when 

 dry, glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acute at the apex and acute or obliquely rounded at the 

 base, the edges entire ; both surfaces reticulate ; main nerves 6-8 pairs, 

 spreading, not prominent ; length 3-7 in., breadth 1*5-2-25 in., petiole 

 •25 in. Glomeruli axillary, many-flowered ; buds and pedicels glabrous, 

 the latter *2-' 25 in. long; bracteoles very short, glabrous. Calyx-teeth 

 4, broadly ovate, concave. Stamens 8, alternating with the staminodes. 

 Ripe fruit ellipsoid to globular-ovate, glabrous, dehiscing by 2 or 5 

 valves, length *75 in. or more. Clarke in Flor. Br. Ind. II, 592. 

 C. laevigata, Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. IV, 107 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Flor. 11. C. Championii and C. Zeylanica, Thwaites, Enum. PI. Ceylon, 

 19. 0. varians, Thwaites Enum. 19 (in part). 



Singapore; Lobb, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 657. 



Perak; Ridley 5218; Scortechini 804; King's Collector 4699, 7001. 



A widely distributed species presenting a considerable amount of variation. 

 Perak specimens have larger leaves than those from British India ; but they appear 

 to have smaller fruits ; for Roxburgh describes the fruit of the plant, as it grows 

 in the Northern Circars, as being as large as a nutmeg. 



6. Casearia Kunstleri, King n. spec. A tree 30-80 feet high ; 

 young branches pale, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly oblong, 

 tapering slightly to each end, the edges entire ; both surfaces glab- 

 rous and minutely reticulate ; the upper shining, the lower rather 

 dull ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, ascending and only slightly curved, 

 prominent on the lower surface ; length 5-7 in., breadth 1*5-2 in. ; 

 petiole *25 in , stout. Glomeruli mostly in the axils of fallen leaves, 

 many-flowered; pedicels stout, glabrous '35-'45 in. long; buds '15 in. 

 long, blunt. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments broadly ovate, obtuse, concave, 

 minutely pubescent. Stamens 10, broad, sub-acute, the filaments broad, 

 pointed, their edges pubescent. Staminodes elliptic, their apices acute and 

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