1898.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 21 



coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, shortly acuminate, narrowed or rounded at 

 the base, sometimes oblique ; the edges remotely crenate, revolute when 

 dry ; both surfaces glabrous, the lower glaucous ; main nerves 8 or 9 

 pairs, faint, curving upwards ; length 45-7 in., breadth 2*25-2*75 in. ; 

 petiole 2-3 in., thick. Racemes solitary, axillary, slightly longer than 

 the leaves, bearing rather distant glomeruli of 3 or 4 flowers each, the 

 rachis densely and minutely tomentose. Flowers *3 in. in diam., the 

 pedicels about *1 in. long. Calyx-tube sliort, widely funnel-shaped ; 

 teeth 6, oblanceolate, obtuse, spreading, minutely tomentose externally. 

 Petals 6, broadly lanceolate, sub-acute, equal in length to the calyx- 

 teeth, villous on the inner surface. Stamens 2 in front of each petal ; 

 the filaments glabrous rising from a small bulb. Ovary hairy. Styles 

 5, short, sub-erect. 



Perak; Kings Collector 4286, 7109. 



3. Homalium propinquum, C. B. Clarke in Flor. Br. Ind. II, 597. 

 A tree 60-80 or even 120^ feet in height ; young branches pale brown 

 when dry, puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 

 obtuse, or shortly acuminate, more or less narrowed and sometimes 

 slightly oblique at the base, the edges undulate- or undulate-crenate ; 

 both surfaces glabrous, the midrib alone sometimes puberulous beneath ; 

 main nerves 9-11 pairs, curved, spreading, prominent beneath when dry ; 

 lengtb 4-7 in., breadth 2*25-3'5 in.; petiole *25-'35 in. Racemes 4-12 

 in. long, clustered and sometimes panicled at the apices of the branches, 

 covered with soft pale tomentum. Flowers 2 in. in diam., 6 or 7-fid, in 

 elose clusters and on pedicels '15 in. long. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped ; 

 its segments longer than the petals, subspathulate. Stamens twice as 

 many as the petals, all bearing anthers. Fruit unknown. H. longifolium, 

 (in part) Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. IV, 35. Blackwellia propinqua, 

 Wall. Cat. 4898. B. spiralis, Wall. Cat. 4897A. 



Penang ; Porter, Curtis 3592. Perak ; King's Collector 3748,3935, 

 4883, 7936. ^ Malacca; Griffith; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 664. 



4. Homalium Griffithianum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengl. XL, 

 Pt. II, (for 1877), 57. A tree 30-40 feet high, the young parts softly 

 tawny-pubescent. Leaves membranous, obovate-oblong, shortly and 

 bluntly apiculate, slightly narrowed to the rounded or minutely sub- 

 cordate base, the edges subentire to coarsely crenate ; both surfaces 

 sparsely pubescent, tomentose or densely pubescent on the midrib 

 and 7-9 pairs of spreading little curved not prominent main nerves ; 

 length 275-5 in., breadth 1*65-2 5 in. ; petiole *2-*4 in., pubescent. 

 Racemes solitary, one and a half times as long as the leaves, softly 

 tawny- tomentose ; the glomeruli few-flowered, not crowded together. 

 Flowers '35 in. in diam., densely villous in all parts. Calyx-tube conical 



