1900.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 69 



Var. 2. capitellata, King. Leaves thicker in texture than in the 

 typical form (sub-coriaceous), broadly elliptic to sub-orbicular, with 3 

 very strong nerves and a fainter marginal pair ; length 4*5-10 in. ; 

 breadth 275-5 in., petiole *2-'3 in. Flowers in dense, very shortly- 

 stalked, axillary glomeruli composed of numerous 3-flowered cymes very 

 much shorter than the leaves. Ptemandra capitata, Jack in. Mai. Misc. 

 IF, addenda prefixed to the paper p. 3; Wall. Cat. 4079; W. and A. 

 Prodr. 325 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ill, 153 ; Kurz, For. Fl. I, 509 

 and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. II, 79 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. II, 551 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 1103. Fwyckia capi- 

 tellata, Walp. Rep. V, 724; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 568. 

 Fj. medinilliformis, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XVIII, 261. 



Singapore; Wallich 4079. Penang ; Curtis 67; King. Perak ; 

 Scortechini 43, 1043; Wray 1971. Malacca; Maingay 802 (K D.) ; 

 Heifer (K.D.) 2279. 



Var. 3. paniculata, King. Flowers in large, lax, terminal, much 

 branched, few-flowered, leafy and bracteolate panicles. Leaves of the 

 stem 2-6 in. long and from *9-2-75 in. broad, those of the panicle from 

 '75-2 in. long and *15-'8 in. broad. P. paniculata, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 

 4080; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 551 ; Cogn. in DC. 

 Mon. Phan. VII, 1104. Ewyckia latifolia, Blume Mus. Bot. I, 6. 

 E. cyanea, var. latifolia, Korth. ex Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 568. 

 E. paniculata, Miq. I.e. Suppl. 321. Pternadra latifolia, Triana in Linn. 

 Trans. XXVIII, 153. 



Penang; Wallich 4080; Curtis 2768. Malacca; Griffith (K.D.) 

 2273. Perak; Scortechini 248, 1303; Wray 92. Distrib. ; Borneo, 

 Bangka. 



2. Pternandra echinata, Jack, Mai. Mis. II, n. 9 and add. prop. 3. 

 A small tree ; young branches quadrangular, thickened and with 

 transverse ridges at the nodes, minutely rusty-pubescent. Leaves sub- 

 coriaceous, boldly 3-nerved, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 3-nerved, 

 narrowed to the base, shortly acuminate at the apex; upper surface 

 glabrous ; the lower puberulous or sub-glabrous, minutely reticulate ; 

 length 2-5-4-5 in.; breadth -75-P75 in.; petiole '05-2 in. Flowers 

 axillary and solitary on pedicels longer than themselves, or in threes in 

 terminal pedunculate cymes, the pedicels of both sets of flowers with 

 one or more pairs of curved, linear-oblong bracteoles. Calyx-tube widely 

 campanulate, *2-'3 in. long, closely covered with triangular rusty- 

 pubescent scales, those nearest the mouth longest, most acute, and most 

 persistent ; the mouth truncate and with 4 narrow, acuminate teeth. 

 Petals broadly ovate-quadrate, abruptly and shortly acute, the edges 

 undulate, blue. Anthers broadly ovate, on thick short filaments. 



