348 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3, 



5. LOPHOPETALUM, Wight. 



Trees or shrubs, usually glabrous. Leaves opposite or alternate, 

 petioled, exstipulate. Sepals 5, rounded, short, spreading. Petals 5, con- 

 tinuous with the disc, persistent, the upper surface cristate or lamellate, 

 or covered with fleshy villi, or naked. Stamens 5, inserted on the disc far 

 from its edge ; anthers oblong. Disc large, flat, entire or lobed. 

 Ovary small, immersed in the disc and continuous with it, trigonal or 

 pyramidal, 3-4-celled, contracted into a short style, stigma capitate ; 

 ovules 4 or more in each cell, in 2 series. Capsule coriaceous, 3-4- 

 angled, 3-4-celled, loculicidal. Seeds winged, albumen fleshy. — Distrib. 

 Species 15 ; Indian and Malayan. 



1. 



2. 



3. 



4. 

 5. 



L. pachyphyllum. 

 L. jimhriatum. 

 L. suhobovatum. 



L. Scortechinii. 

 L. oblongum. 



Leaves very thickly coriaceous ; flowers *75 in. 

 in diam., cymes longer than the leaves 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous. 

 Flowers '5 in. in diam. 

 Flowers '25 to '3 in. in diam. 

 Leaves more or less obovate 

 Leaves not obovate. 

 Disc without fleshy hair-like processes 

 Sepals bluntly ovate ... 

 Sepals deltoid-rotund... 

 Disc with numerous fleshy hair-like 

 processes over its whole surface. 

 Leaves 25 to 3 in. long ; petals 

 rotund-deltoid, the upper surface 

 with numerous fleshy processes ... 

 Leaves 4"5 to 6 in. long ; petals 

 ovate-elliptic, with a broad-based 

 acuminate fleshy process on the 

 upper surface 

 Disc with fleshy processes only at 

 the edges of the pits in which the 

 filaments are inserted 

 Flowers only about '1 in. in diam. 



Imperfectly known species ... ... L. fuscescens, 



1. LoPHOPETALUM PACHYPHYLLUM, n. sp. King. A tree 80 to 100 

 feet high ; young branches slender, terete, dark-coloured when dry. 

 Leaves thickly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, entire, the base 

 narrowed ; upper surface pale when dry ; the lower cinereous, thickly 



6. L. pallidum. 



7. 



L. 



ohlongifolium. 



8. 



L. 



Curtisii. 



9. 



L. 



reflexum. 



