;^52 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [Ko. 3, 



9. LoPHOPETALUM EEFLEXUM, Laws. in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I. 

 616. A tree 40 to 50 feet high, young branches darkly cinereons when 

 dry. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the edges un- 

 dulate ; the base slightly cuneate, rarely rounded ; main nerves 4 or 5 

 pairs, very faint ; length 2*25 to 3'25 in., breadth 1 to 1'2 in., petiole 

 •25 to '3 in. Panicles longer than the leaves, pedunculate ; the branches 

 divaricate, cymose, many-flowered, bracteolate, sparsely and minutely 

 rufous-pubescent. Flowers "1 in. in diara., their pedicels twice as long 

 or more. Sepals 5, thick, fleshy, rotund-deltoid, spreading. Petals 5, 

 thinner and larger than the sepals, rotund-ovate, inserted on the edge 

 of the orbicular entire fleshy disc. Anthers 5, almost sessile on the 

 disc far from its edge, broadly ovate. Ovary broadly conical, sunk 

 in the disc, 3-celled, tapering into the short style, stigma minute. Fruit 

 unknown, 



Malacca : Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 393/2. Penang : Curtis, 

 No. 1502. 



Imperfectly known species. 



LoPHOPETALUM PUSCESCENS, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. for 1875, 

 pt. 2, p. 202. A glabrous tree. Leaves coriaceous, oblong, shortly acu- 

 minate, entire, rounded at the base, the lower surfaces of the leaves 

 ferrugineous when dry : main nerves 16 to 18 pairs, prominent on the 

 lower surface ; length 4 to 8 in., breadth 2*5 to 3 in., petiole '8 to 1*25 

 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, shorter than the leaves, pedun- 

 culate ; the branches spreading, cymose, puberulous, minutely bracteo- 

 late. Flowers probably about "2 in. in diam., their pedicels stout and 

 longer than themselves. GalyxAohQ^ short, broad, rounded. Petals ovate, 

 rather obtuse, coriaceous with broad membranous margins, induplicate 

 in bud, glabrous, each with an elongated trigonous corruga.ted process 

 on its upper surface. Disc indistinctly 5-lobed, rugulose when dry. 

 Stamens 5, with rather long filaments. Fruit unknown. 

 Singapore ; T. Anderson, 



The description of the flowers of this species is taken from Kurz 

 {I. c). The only specimens which I have seen are two collected by the 

 late Dr. T. Anderson at Singapore and named by Kurz himself, and the 

 flowers on these are too imperfect for examination. These specimens 

 have quite i\\e fades of a Lophopetalum allied to Jv. ohlongifolium. 



6. Celastrus, Linn. 



Scan dent shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled ; stipules minute and 

 deciduous, or 0. Flowers polygamous or hermaphrodite, in terminal or 

 axillary panicles or racemes. Galyx 5-oleffc. Petals 5, spreading. Bisc 



