1898.] G. King- — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 19 



placentas 3, parietal. Capsule subglobose, 3-valved. Seeds few, 

 subglobose, with a red fleshy aril. Distrib. Species 6 ; Malaya, Philip- 

 pines, Ceylon. 



Osmelia Maingayi, King n. spec. A diceceous tree 20-60 feet high ; 

 young branches slender, minutely tawny-tomentose. Leaves membran- 

 ous, oblong or elliptic-oblong to elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base 

 rounded or slightly narrowed, the edges entire or very obscurely 

 crenate ; the upper surface glabrous, the lower covered witli minute 

 yellowish pubescence especially on the nerves and midrib ; main nerves 

 6-10 pairs, curved, spreading, interarching within the edge ; length 

 4-6 in., breadth 1*75 to 3 in., petiole "6-'75 in. Male panicles slender, 

 terminal, several times as long as the leaves ; flowers '1 in. in diam. 

 or less, on short pedicels bracteate at the base, in slightly distant small 

 glomeruli. Sepals 4, membranous, imbricate, rotund, pubescent, concave. 

 Petals 0. Stamens 8 in two rows, one row with longer filaments 

 alternating with the row opposite the broad villous glands. Panicles 

 of female flowers axillary, shorter than the leaves, slightly longer in 

 fruit. Calyx as in the male, but the segments smaller. Stamens sub- 

 equal, shorter than the calyx, the filaments very short, glands and 

 ovary densely hairy; the latter sub-globular, tomentose, crowned by 3 

 short distant bifid glabrous stigmas, 1-celled ; ovules 3, erect. Capsule 

 *5-*65 in. long, 3-ridged, dehiscing by 3 valves. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 1448. Perak ; ScnrtecJiini 

 158, 191, 623. King's Collector 741, 1240, 2339, 4259, 4096, 5667, 7660, 

 7045, 10017, 10981; Wray 3665. Pahang ; Bddley 2654. Singapore; 

 King, Ridley 3804, 1904. 



This appears to be a very common tree in Perak ; for there is large suite of 

 specimens of it in the Calcutta Herbarium numbering about 150 sheets. The 

 various gatherings vary somewhat as to the amount of pubescence and number of 

 nerves on the leaves, as also in the length of the panicles ; but I cannot make 

 out more than one species. Maingay's specimen (Kew Distrib.) 1439 looks as if 

 it might be different. There is only a single sheet of it at Calcutta, and no flower 

 remains on its panicles. Beccari's Sumatra plant 928 may possibly belong to still 

 another species. All the species have the fades of Antideuna ; the capsular fruit 

 when present however at once distinguishes then from that genus. 



3. Homalium, Jacq. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, crenate or subentire, petioled or 

 sessile, rarely punctulate. Floivers hairy, small, in slender axillary and 

 sub-terminal simple or panicled racemes; bract at the base of the pedicel 

 often prominent but caducous. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped or cylindric, 

 adnate to the base of the ovary ; lobes 5-JO, narrow, persistent. Petals 

 5-10, inserted in the throat of the calyx, linenr-oblong, persistent. Disc 



