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



rather long, stigma small. Fruit when ripe sub-globular or pyriform, 

 glabrous, 1"5 to 2 in. in diam., sometimes nearly 3 in. long, and of a 

 dark yellowish red colour. 



Perak: King's Collector, No. 2708, 3198, 4410, 5953, 6488 and 

 10747. Scortechini. 



4. Salacta Griffithii, Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl., Br. Ind. I, 628. 

 Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the 

 edges serrate-erenate, the base sub-cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous, 

 minutely reticulate ; main nerves 5 to 7 pairs, ascending, curving ; 

 length 4'5 to 5 in., breadth 2 in., petiole "3 in. Cymes solitary, 

 axillary, on peduncles '6 to "75 in. long, divaricating, about 1 in. 

 in diam. Flowers less than 20, "1 in. long, on pedicels shorter than 

 themselves. Calyx puberulous, a shallow cup deeply divided into 

 5 rotund-ovate concave lobes. Petals 5, erect, much longer than 

 the calyx-lobes, thick, oblong, puberulous, the point slightly inflexed, 

 the, apex apiculate. I>isc very convex, fleshy, glabrous ; stamens 3, 

 inserted on its upper edge; filaments erect, broad; anthers reniform. 

 Ovary buried in the disc. Fruit unknown. 



Penang : Curtis No. 692. 



5. Salacia Perakensis, King, n. sp. Scandent ; young branches 

 dark-coloured when dry, lenticellate. Leaves elliptic, shortly and blunt- 

 ly acuminate, entire, the base minutely cordate ; both surfaces shining, 

 minutely reticulate ; main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, ascending, curving, faint , 

 length 2 to 2'75 in., breadth 1 to 1*35 in., petiole "2 in. Cymes axillary; 

 "3 to '45 in. in diam., on peduncles '3 to '75 in. long, 5- to 8-flowered. 

 Floiuers '15 in. long, on pedicels shorter than themselves. Calyx cupular, 

 shallow, fleshy, deeply divided into 5 rotund concave lobes. Petals 5, 

 erect, fleshy, oblong, concave, apiculate, puberulous, much longer than 

 the calyx. Disc thick, cylindric. Anthers 3, sessile on the convex apex 

 of the disc, large, transversely oblong, 2-celled. Ovary buried in the 

 disc, conical, stigma minute. Fruit unknown. 



Perak : Scortechini, No. 1042. 



6. Salacia Scortechinii, King, n. sp. A tall robust climber ; 

 young branches rather stout, pale-brown when dry, lenticellate. 

 Leaves coriaceous, opposite, oblong or oblong-elliptic, sometimes slightly 

 obovate, sub-acute, the edges entire, the base usually narrowed but 

 sometimes rounded ; both surfaces glabrous, the upper sliining, the 

 lower dull, not reticulate ; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, slightly prominent 

 beneath ; length 6 to 10 in., breadth 225 to 3"5 in.; petioles 6 to '75 in., 

 stout. Flowers '35 in. in diam., glabrous, rather numerous (10 to 12) 

 on very short woody axillary tubercles, their pedicels '35 or '4 in. long. 

 Calyx cupular, divided to the base into 5 shallow broad sub-reuiform 



