58 G. King — Materials far a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg VI, 108. Gastonia palmata, Roxb. Hovt. Berg. 

 33 ; Flor. Ind. II, 407 ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 894. Gilibertia palmata, 

 DC. Prodr. IV, 256. Hedera fermginea and H. palmata, Wall. Cat. 4909 

 and 4910 (partly). Brassaiopsis confluens, Seem. Rev. Hed. 18 (as to the 

 leaves). Aralia dubia, Spreng. Syst. Veg. IV, 2, p. 125. 



Perak; Scortechini ; King's Collector 443 5, 6715. 



Var. cheirantha, Clarke in Flor. Br. Ind. II, 732 ; laminse of the 

 lobes cnt away in the middle so as to expose the midrib and form a 

 pseudo-petiolule. Hedera ? cheirantha, Jack in Wall. Cat. 4925 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 4910 in part. 



Perak ; Wray 2322 ; King's Collector 2308 ; Scortechini 344. 



5. Dendropanax, Decne and Planch. 



Unarmed glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, entire, (palmate- 

 ly 3-5-lobed on young shoots). Umbels solitary or in small panicles ; 

 bracts small or none ; pedicels not jointed under the flower. Limb 

 of the calyx entire or 5-toothed. Petals 5, free, valvate, rather thick. 

 Stamens 5. Styles united into a column at the base, free at the apex. 

 Fruit globose or ellipsoid, succulent, distinctly or obscurely 5-ribbed. 

 Seeds compressed ; albumen uniform. Distrir. about 12 species mostly 

 tropical American ; one Japanese ; one Indo-Chinese. 



Dendropanax Maingati, new species. A shrub ; young branches with 

 corky bark, pale-brown when dry, all parts except the umbels glabrous. 

 Leaves alternate or sub-opposite, thinly coriaceous, oblong-ovate, oblong 

 or lanceolate, acute ; the base rounded, sometimes slightly narrowed ; the 

 edges entire and slightly recurved when dry ; both surfaces glabrous, 

 dull, the midrib prominent on the lower and sending off near its base two 

 bold curving nerves running at some distance from the margin to the 

 apex and, above the origin of these, 7-8 pairs of faint horizontal nerves ; 

 length 2-3*25 in., breadth 1-1*75 in., petioles varying from *25-I'5 in. 

 in length. Umbel simple, terminal, its pedicel *35-*5 in. long ; flowers 

 8-12, oblong, pedicelled, *2 in. long, their pedicels *25-*4 in. long. 

 Calyx cylindric-campanulate, puberulous, its mouth with 5 sharp 

 triangular teeth. Petals broadly lanceolate, acute, quite free. Fruit 

 globular, succulent, glabrous, *3 in. in diam. D. parviflorum, Clarke in 

 Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. (not of Bentham). 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 682; Griffith 2685-1. Perak ; 

 Scortechini 308. 



This Dendropanax, found in Malacca and Perak, does not ngree with specimens 

 of D parviflorum, Benth., collected in Hongkong. It appears to me to be a distinct 

 species hitherto un-named. 



