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



9. El^odendron, Jacq. f-. 



Small trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or subopposite, crenate or 

 entire. Flowers in axillary brandling cymes, often polygamous. Calyx 

 4- or 5-cleft. Petals 4 or 5, spreading. Disc cupular. Stamens 4 or 5 ; 

 anthers nearly globose. Ovary continuous with the disc, conical, rarely 

 2-4- or 5-celled, style very short, ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit succu- 

 lent or dry, 1-2-celled, indehiscent ; cells 1- rarely 2-seeded. 8eed 

 without an aril, albuminous. — Distrib. About 40 species, natives of 

 South Africa, Tropical Asia, America and Australia. 



Elj;odendron sub-rotundum. King n. sp. A tree 20 feet high : 

 young branches sub-compressed, glabrous, dark-coloured when dry. 

 Leaves broadly ovate or sub-rotund, obtuse or sub- cuspidate, the edges 

 entire and slightly revolute, the base slightly narrowed or rounded ; both 

 surfaces glabrous, dull, the upper pale, the lower brown when dry : 

 main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, spreading obliquely, little curved : length 2 to 

 25 in., breadth 1'2 to 1"8 in. ; petiole '3 to '5 in., slender. Cymes axillary 

 and terminal, umbellate on a common peduncle, 1*5 to 2"5 in. long, 

 1'5 to 2 in. in diam., much-branched, many-flowered. Flowers numerous, 

 nearly '2 in. in diam., their pedicels longer than themselves. Calyx 

 short, cupular, deeply divided into 4 or 5 rotund concave lobes. Petals 

 4 or 5, broadly oblong, blunt, spreading, glabrous, sparsely scaly outside. 

 Bisc short, cupular, thin, wavy, not lobed. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted on the 

 outer surface of the disc ; the filaments nearly as long as the pistil^ 

 slender ; anthers ovate, basifixed. Ovary ovoid, tapering, surrounded at 

 the base, but not confluent with, the thin disc, 2-celled ; style short, 

 stigma small. Fruit (immature) '5 in. long, oblong-clavate, dark- 

 coloured, glabrous, crowned by the persistent style, 1-celled (by abortion) 

 and 1-seeded. 



Perak: King's Collector No. 1166. And amans ; Kings^s Collector. 

 Johore ; King, Pahang; Ridley No. 1001 a. 



This differs from E. glaucum, Pers, in having smaller flowers which 

 are always 4-merous ; in having a smooth (not lobed or corrugated) 

 disc ; a much less tapering ovary ; and entire leaves with fewer nerves* 



10. HiPPOCRATEA, Linn. 



Small trees or scandent shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled ; stipules 

 small, caducous. Flowers small, white or greenish, disposed in axillary- 

 cymes, more rarely in terminal cymose panicles. Calyx small, 5-parted 

 or of 5 free sepals. Petals 5, s-preading, much larger than the calyx:, 

 imbricate or valvate. Stamens 3, the filaments recurved and lying in 

 the grooves of the ovary ; anthers short, broad, often 1-celled and with 

 transverse dehiscence. Disc flat or cupular. Ovary surrounded by the 



