1896.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 367 



length 1-75 to 8*5 in., breadth 1 to 1'5 in., petiole '15 to 25 in. Floivers 

 •25 in. in diam., 3 to 6 from small tubercles in the axils of the leaves 

 or from the smaller branches below the leaves ; their pedicels slender, 

 about '25 to "35 in. long. Calyx cupular, with 5 rounded concave lobes. 

 Petals much larger than the calyx-lobes, broadly cordate, obtuse, often 

 clawed at the base, the edges membranous. Disc broad, fleshy, convex. 

 Stamens 3, from the upper edge of the disc ; the filaments fiat but not 

 broad, erect : anthers small, transversely oblong, 2-celled. Ovary small, 

 conical, 3-angled, buried in the disc. Fruit ovoid -globular, '5 in. in 

 diam., 1-celled, 1-seeded. Blume Bijdr. 221 ; Wall. Cat. 4219 : W. and 

 A. Prod. 105 : JOalz. and Gibs. Fl. Bomb, 33 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, 

 I, 260 : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, p. 597 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 

 626. 8. podopetala, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1863, 1, 581. S. 

 Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 4221, Johnia coromandeliana, Koxb. Fl. Ind. 

 I, 169; DC. Prod. I, 571. Tonsella prinoides, Willd. in Act. Acad. Cur, 

 Ber. IV, 184. 



In all the provinces. — Distrib : British India, Ceylon, the Malay 

 Archipelago, Philippines. 



Var. macrophylla^ leaves broadly elliptic, acuminate, much narrowed 

 at the base, 4 to 5 in, long, and 1"75 to275 in. broad. 8. macrophylla^ 

 Bl. Bijdr. 221. 



Perak : King's Collector, 7552; Wray, No. 2133. Distrib. — Java. 



10. Salacia polyantha, Korth. in Flora XXXI for 1848, p. 379. 

 Scandent, glabrous ; young branches dark-coloured when dry, minute- 

 ly warted. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, the apex 

 shortly and obtusely acuminate, the base cuneate, the edges with 

 remote shallow serrations ; the upper surface shining when dry and 

 sub-olivaceous, the lower dull brown; length 3*5 to 4-5 in., breadth 1*25 

 to 2 in., petiole '35 in. Flowers about "25 in. in diam., on slender 

 pedicels '5 to '65 in. long, crowded on very short bracteolate axillary 

 tubercles. Calyx flat, fleshy, with 5 rotund slightly imbricate lobes. 

 Petals 5, much larger than the calyx-lobes, broadly elliptic, obtuse, con- 

 cave, spreading. Disc very convex, fleshy, glabrous. 8tame7is 3, insert- 

 ed near the upper edge of the disc : filaments flat but not very broad, 

 short, sub-recurved ; anthers small, transversely oblong. Fruit un- 

 known. 



Tongkah : Curtis, No. 2917. Kedah : Curtis, No, 2574. Distrib.— 

 Borneo. 



Mr. Curtis describes his Tongkah plant as a climbing shrub and 

 his Kedah plant as a tree ; but I cannot find any difference in their 

 flowers or leaves. 



11. Salacia Wkayi, King, n. sp. A stoat climber: young 



