1900.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula 9 



of which the flowers are clustered in pseudo-glomeruli, while the capsules are not 

 much longer than broad and are often urn-shaped. 



1. Oxyspora stellulata, King, n. sp. A shrub, 15 to 20 feet high ; 

 young branches, petioles, inflorescence and calyx-tube covered with pale, 

 minute, stellate-hairy scales. Leaves somewhat unequal, ovate, slightly 

 cordate at the rounded base, the apex shortly apiculate, 7-nerved (the 

 middle nerve very strong) ; both surfaces free from hairs, but (especially 

 the upper) with numerous minute hairy scales most numerous on the 

 nerves, the transverse veins on the lower very distinct and straight ; 

 length 5 to 9 in. ; breadth 2*25 to 4'5 in. ; petiole 1'25 to 4 in. Panicle 

 solitary, terminal, longer than the leaves ; the branches in pairs, divari- 

 cate ; flowers in umbels of 4 to 6 on the ultimate branchlets. Oalyx-tube 

 funnel-shaped, sub-tetragonous, the mouth with four small triangular 

 teeth, narrowed at the base into the short pedicel. Petals 4, orbicular- 

 ovate, blunt, glabrous. Stamens 8, very unequal, four linear, purple and 

 twice as long as the other 4 short, yellow. Disc of 4 incurved plates. 

 Ovary 4- winged. Capsule clavate, opening by 4 broad truncate valves ; 

 seeds minute, shortly beaked. 



Pbrak ; Scortechini 249 in part ! King's Collector 418, 2851 ! Wray 

 1224. Distrib. Sumatra, Forbes 3034. 



2. Oxtspora acutangula, King, n. sp. A bush ; young branches 

 boldly 4-angled, glabrous. Leaves elliptic- oblong, somewhat narrowed 

 to the rounded base, the apex acute, 5-nerved ; upper surface glabrous, 

 the lower minutely lepidote-pubescent on the nerves and veins ; length 

 4 to 6 in., breadth 1*75 to 25 in., petiole *6 to "75 in., minutely lepidote. 

 Panicle solitary, terminal, usually somewhat shorter than the leaves, 

 broadly pyramidal, lepidote-puberulous, many-flowered. Flowers (in- 

 cluding the stamens) *5 in. long. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, minutely 

 rufous-stellate lepidote, the mouth with 4 small triangular teeth. 

 Petals 4i, glabrous, broadly ovate, blunt. Stamens 7 or 8, equal, lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, slightly curved, the lobes at the base short, rounded, 

 appendages none, but a grooved, narrow process on the back of the 

 connective in the lower half. Capsule ovoid, narrowed to the equally 

 long pedicel, 8-ridged, glabrous, the mouth with an everted rim, '25 in. 

 long. 



Prrak ; Wray 329. 



3. Oxyspora Curtisii, King. A shrub ; branchlets bluntly 4-angled 

 not winged, puberulous. Leaves ovate-acuminate, the base rounded, not 

 passing into the petiole, 7-nerved, upper surface sparsely strigose, 

 minutely lepidote, the lower glabrous, the edges glandular-serrulate ; 

 length 5 to 7 in., breadth 3 to 4 in., petioles 1*5 to 2*5, broadly winged, 

 the wing much expanded at the base and joining that of the opposite 

 leaf. Panicle solitary, terminal, spreading, longer than the leaves, with 



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