70 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



Fruit sub-hemispheric, truncate, sub-echinate, *35 in. in diam. Wall. 

 Cat. 4078. Kibessia ecliinata, Cogn. in DO. Mon. Phan. VII, li08. 

 Kibessia simplex, Korth. Verb. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 253 ; Blume, Mus. 

 Bot. I, 9 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXV11I, 152 ; C. B. Clarke in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 552. Kibessia cupularis, Dene in Deless. Ic. 

 Sel. V, t. 5 ; Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 317. K. acuminata, Dene in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, V, 316; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 

 153. 



Malacca and Singapore ; not uncommon ; many collectors. 



I cannot see how E. acuminata, Dene, is to be distinguished as a species and I 

 reduce it here without any hesitation. 



Var. pubescens, King. Bases of leaves somewhat rounded and 

 sub-cordate ; young branches, under surfaces of leaves and panicles 

 with much minute rusty pubescence. P. ecliinata, Jack, Wall. Cat. 

 4078a. Kibessia pube seen s, Dene in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, V, 318 ; Triana 

 in Linn. Trans. XXVIII, 152 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. FJ. Br. Ind. 

 II, 552 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 1108. 



Penang, Malacca, Perak. 



I cannot see what claim this has to specific rank. To me it appears to be a 

 variety and not a very distinct one of P. ecliinata, Jack. Wallich did not even regard 

 it as a variety and issued it as true P. ecliinata. This form, in the three provinces 

 where it occurs, appears to be very common. 



3. Pterandra Griffith ii, King, n. sp. A small tree ; young 

 branches cylindric, very little thickened at the nodes, glabrous. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, elliptic to ovate-oblong, narrowed at the non-cordate 

 (cordate in var.) base, the apex very shortly acuminate or acute, 

 3-nerved ; both surfaces glabrous, shining ; length 225-4 in. ; breadth 

 1-2 in. ; petiole *J5-2 in. Flowers in 2-3- rarely 5-7-flowered, axillary, 

 bracteolate cymes shorter than the leaves, rarely in crowded, terminal 

 cymes; bracteoles ovate, acute, minute. Calyx-tube widely campanulate, 

 •15 in. long, covered with adpressed, triangular, puberulous scales; the 

 mouth with 4 large, blunt, triangular teeth. Petals orbicular-ovate, 

 undulate, abruptly and shortly apiculate-spreadirig, not calyptrate. 

 Stamens 8, equal ; the anthers short, thick, about as long as the 

 filaments, gibbous at the base behind, inserted at an obtuse angle on 

 the filaments. Fruit globular-ovoid, truncate at the mouth, covered by 

 the persistent scales, under *2 in. in diam. 



Malacca; Griffith (K.D.) 2272/1 ; Penang ; Curtis 953. 



Griffith's specimens of this (2272/1) have been referred by M. Cogniaux (DC. 

 Mon. Phan. VII, 1110) to Rectomitra tuberculata h\., but comparison in the Kew 

 Herbarium with two authentic specimens of that plant collected in Sumatra and 



