1896.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 351 



disc, incurved, with a number of fleshy lobular processes on their 

 upper surface. Bisc fleshy, almost flat, with many thick fleshy hair- 

 like processes shorter than the filaments. Anthers 5, ovate ; the filaments 

 longer than the anthers, inserted in pits on the disc. Ovary broadly 

 conical. Fruit unknown. 



Malacca: (Kew Distrib.) No. 393. 



Known only by Maingay's scanty specimens, not one of which is 

 in fruit. 



7. LoPHOPETALUM OBLONGiFOLiUM, King n. sp. A tree 80 to 100 feet 

 high : young branches glabrous, terete, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves 

 opposite, coriaceous, oblong or elliptic-oblong, shortly and rather bluntly 

 acuminate, entire, the base cuneate, both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves 

 8 or 9 pairs, spreading, slightly curved ; length 45 to 6 in., breadth 

 1'75 to 2*25 in., petiole '5 to "65 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, 

 about half as long as the leaves, minutely bracteolate, g^labrous ; the 

 branches spreading, the ultimate branchlets cymose. Flowers '25 in. in 

 diam,, their pedicels about as long as themselves. Calyx flat, corrugated 

 externally, the edge with 5 broad sub-reniform short teeth closely 

 applied to the corolla. Petals 5, continuous with the margin of the 

 disc, much larger than the calyx-lobes, ovate-elliptic, the edges slightly 

 laciniate or entire, the upper surface with a broad-based pointed fleshy 

 appendage and some hairs. Bisc flat, broad, obscurely 5-angled, covered 

 with very short coarse bristle-like hairs. Stamens 5, inserted on the disc, 

 filaments short : anthers ovate, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 

 conical, sunk in the disc, 3-celled ; style short, thick ; stigma small. 

 Fruit unknown. Euonymus adenophorus, Scort. MSS. in Herb. Calc. 



Perak : Scortechini, No. 1943. 



8. LoPHOPETALUM CuRTisii, n. sp. King. A medium-sized tree : 

 young branches very slender, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves coriaceous, 

 broadly ovate, cuspidate, entire, the base cuneate ; upper surface when 

 dry at first glaucous, afterwards dark- coloured, the lower always pale 

 and very minutely dotted, both glabrous ; main nerves about 6 pairs, 

 curving, faint ; lengtii 2 to 2"5 in., breadth 1 to 1*5 in. ; petiole '5 or '6 in., 

 slender. Cymes axillary or terminal, about 1 to 1 "35 in. long ; the 

 branches divaricating, 10- to 20-flowered. Flowers '3 in. in diam., as in 

 L. pallidum but the hair-like processes on the disc confined to the 

 edges of the pits in which the bases of the filaments are inserted. 



Penang on Government Hill ; Curtis No. 1577. 



A species with flowers like L. jmMidum, but with leaves of thicker 

 texture, broader, and with longer petioles. The cymes also are laru^er 

 and the disc is devoid of processes, except round the edges of the pits 

 from which' the filaments spring. 



