1900.] Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 61 



acute. Fruit ovoid, -3 in. in diam. Bot. Mag. t. 4321 ; Morren in Ann. 

 Soc. Hort. Gand. V, 281 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 291 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, p. 510- Triana in Linn. Trans. XXVIII, 87; 

 C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 549. Melastoma eximium, 

 Blume Bijdr. (not of Jack). Melastoma speciosum, Reinw. ex Blume, 

 in Flora, 183J, 516. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 798. Penang ; Hullett 203; 

 Curtis 874 ; King's Collector 1595. Perak ; Wray 3218 ; King's Collector 

 2652. Distrib. Moluccas, Java, Sumatra. 



3. Medinilla heteranthera, King, n. sp. Epipytal and terres- 

 trial; branches slender, smooth, reddish when fresh, drying dark 

 purplish-brown. Leaves of the pairs somewhat uneqnal, ovate-lanceolate 

 to lanceolate, acuminate, the base slightly narrowed, glabrous, 3-nerved ; 

 length 2'5 to 5*25 in. ; breadth 1 to 1*8 in. ; petioles '3 to *8 in. Panicles 

 terminal on the branches, half as long as the leaves, corymbosely 

 cymose, 5- or 6-flowered, minutely bracteolate. Flowers *75 in. long, 

 their pedicels much shorter. Calyx-tube cylindric, the mouth wide and 

 with 4 broad, shallow teeth. Petals 4, ovate-lanceolate, shortly acumi- 

 nate. Stamens 8 ; anthers unequal, the larger four twice as long as 

 the shorter four, all curved, much acuminate and with two tubercles 

 at the base in front, the shorter 4 with a short spur on the connective 

 behind, the larger with no spur. Fruit globular-ovoid, crowned by the 

 wide calyx-limb, *35 in. in diam. 



Perak ; Scortechini 341 ; King's Collector, 3291, 3644, 6304, 6904 ; 

 Wray 397 ; at elevations of from 3000 to 4500 feet. 



This resembles M. Horsfieldii, Miq., — a species from Java and Borneo — which 

 however has 5-merous flowers, obovate petals and leaves of thinner texture. 

 According to Scortechini the petals are waxy white tinged with red and the stamens 

 are yellow. 



Var. latifolia. Leaves broadly elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base 

 cuneate, 25 to 3*75 in. long and 1*5 to 2 in. broad. 

 Perak; King's Collector 8017 ; Wray 268. 



4. Medinilla venusta, King, n. sp. Epiphytal, 2 to 4 feet long, 

 glabrous ; branches stout, with large, scattered tubercles, glabrous. 

 Leaves large, opposite, thinly coriaceous, sessile, elliptic, shortly acumi- 

 nate, narrowed to the base, boldly 3-nerved above the base with often 

 a faint, small, basal, marginal pair ; length 6 to 9 in. ; breadth 2*75 to 

 4 in. Cymes much shorter than the leaves, laxly umbellate, axillary 

 or from the axils of fallen leaves, about 6-flowered ; the pedicels 

 slender, bibracteolate at the base. Flowers nearly I in. long. Galyx- 

 tube campanulate, *35 in. long, with a narrow, obscurely 4-toothed limb. 



