1896.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 373 



branches ; upper surfaces sparsely stri^ose, <lie lower densely rufescent- 

 villous : length 1*25 to 225 in., breadth 7 to 12 in. ; petiole 2 to '3 in., 

 tomentose. Cymes slightly longer than the petioles, subsessile, 12-to lo- 

 flowered, pubescent. Calyx sparsely pubescent outside, glabrous inside. 

 Disc glabrous, with 10 short deeply pitted lobes. Styles united to the 

 apex. Drupe globular, slightly compressed, black, glabrous, shining, with 

 scanty pulp, '25 in. in diara., endocarp leathery. DC. Prodr. ii. 21 ; Roxb. 

 PI. Iiid. i. 611 ; Wall. Cat. 4246 ; Don Prodr. 190 ; W. & A. Prodr. 163; 

 Dalz.. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 49 ; Thwaites Enum. 74 ; Hook. fil. FL Br. Ind. 

 I, 634 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 266 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixix. ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 86. Z. albens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 607. Z. ceUidifolia, 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 20; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, p. 641). Z. ferruginea, 

 Heyne in Wall. Cat. 4246, B, in part. Z. Napeca, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 612, 

 not Willd. ; Roth Nov. Sp. 159. Z. pallens, Wall. Cat. 4247 ? Z. pedi- 

 cellata, Wall. Cat. 4243. Z. rufula, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 643. Z. sea7i- 

 dens, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 17 ; Wall. Cat. 7269. Bhamnus OEnoplia, Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 282. 



In all the Provinces ; common.*— Distrib., British India, Ceylon : 

 tropical Asia and Australia. 



In Perak there is a form of this (King's Collector Nos. 5106 and 

 5276) with leaves rather larger than the measurements above given, 

 and nearly glabrous. 



3. ZiZYPHUS KuNSTLERT, King n. sp. A scandent or straggling 

 shrub : young shoots rusty-pubescent ; spines stout, solitary, decurved. 

 I/eaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, very finely 

 serrate, narrowec^, to the minutely cordate base ; upper surface shining, 

 glabrous except the impressed rusty-pubescent nerves ; the lower dull, 

 rusty-pubescent especially on the 3 main vertical nerves and their 

 lateral branches ; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 2 to 3 in., petiole "15 to "2 

 in. Cymes 5- to 8-flovvered, sub-sessile and crowded on branches 4 to 

 10 in. long, many of tiiem in the axils of leaves much smaller than 

 those of the stem. Calyx rusty-tomentose outside, glabrous inside ; its 

 teeth broadly triangular, acute, spreading. Disc with 5 broad truncate 

 emarginate teeth, glabrous except a villous elevated ring surrounding 

 the base of the sunk tomentose ovary. Styles united for half their 

 length. Drupe ovoid, slightly compressed, rufous-tomentose, the per* 

 sistent calyx reflexed ; 1 to 125 in. long, and from 5 to "75 in. diam. ; 

 pulp scanty, endocarp woody ; seed single, compressed. 



Province Wellesley, King's Collector No. 1607. Perak: Wray, 

 Nos. 1911, 3281 and 3285 ; King's Collector Nos. 3772 and 6>^5.3. 



A very distinct species, the flowering branches of which have much 

 smaller leaves than those of the barren branches. Named in memory 

 J. II. 48 



