1900.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 63 



expanded, obscurely 4- toothed. Petals 4, oblong, acute, reflexed. 

 Stamens 8 ; anthers curved, linear-lanceolate, with a short 1-pored 

 apical process ; the base with a short, sharp, downward-pointing spur 

 from the connective ; the bases of the anther-cells each with a linear, 

 curved, small tubercle as long as the spur, and like it dark in colour 

 when dry. Fruit ovoid-globular, *2 in. in diam. 



Perak ; Scortechini 307, 478, 622; Curtis J297 ; Wray S91, 1739; 

 King's Collector 4188. 



The nearest ally of this is M. javanensis, Bl. 



7. Medinilla Mxingayi, 0. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 549. A small epiphyte with slender, terete, pale, smooth branches. 

 Leaves opposite, thinly coriaceous, obovate, with rounded apices and 

 cuneate bases, obscurely 3-nerved, the lower surface rather paler than the 

 upper when dry ; length *65 to 1*25 in. ; breadth # 5 to '75 in. ; petiole '05 

 to '2 in. Cymes much shorter than the leaves, with short, divaricate, 

 broadly bracteolate branches, few-flowered. Floivers 25 in. long, their 

 pedicels shorter. Calyx-tube narrowly campanulate, with a slightly 

 expanded, minutely 4-tootiied limb. Petals 4, lanceolate, sparsely 

 strigose outside. Stamens 8 ; anthers lanceolate, without protuberences 

 at the base in front, but with a short spur behind. Fruit unknown. 

 Cogn. in. DO. Mon. Phan. VII, 586. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 806, 807. Perak ; Wray 3781. 

 Singapore ; Ridley 1652, 2018. Pahang • Ridley 2663. 



8. Medinilla Olarkei, King, n. sp. A small epiphyte; youno* 

 branches with dark, rough, tubercled bark. Leaves in whorls of three 

 or four, broadly elliptic to obovate, blunt or subacute, the base cuneate • 

 the upper surface rugulose and green when dry, the lower pale-brown • 

 length 1 to- 2-75 in., breadth '75 to 1*8 in. ; petiole '4 to '8 in., puberu- 

 lous. Cymes about as long as the leaves or slightly longer, from the 

 axils of fallen leaves, on slender pedicels from *5 to *75 in. long the 

 branches whorled, spreading, minutely bracteolate at the divisions • 

 pedicels slender. Flowers 20 to 30, *3 in. in length. Calyx-tube cupular, 

 the mouth truncate and usually obscurely toothed, sometimes distinctly 

 5-toothed. Petals 5, broadly ovate to rotund, blunt. Stamens 10 • 

 anthers linear-lanceolate ; the base with two small tubercles in front 

 and a small spur behind. Fruit globular- truncate, '15 in. in diam. 

 M. rosea, 0. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 547 (not of Gaudichaud). 



Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) 2282 ; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 



796 ; Stoliczka in Herb. Calc. Perak ; Scortechini 243 ; Wray 206, 412 



3831, 4084; King's Collector 7333 ;' at elevations of from 3000 to' 5000 

 feet. 



