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



Ovary (in male flower) rudimentary. Fruit sub-globular, with or 3 

 broad rounded angles, densely rusty- tomentose, 1*5 in. in diam., the 

 pericarp crustaceous : seeds 3, large. 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 4634, 7359. 



TJiis resembles L. montana to some extent ; but has much larger 

 leaves, a more robust and longer inflorescence and larger flowers and 

 fruit. I have not seen female flowers and therefore cannot describe the 

 ovary. 



2. Lepisanthes andamanica, King n. sp. A tree ? young branches 

 pale when dry, glabrous like all the other parts except the inflorescence. 

 Leaves 7 to 12 in. long, equally pinnate: leaflets 2 to 4, coriaceous, pale 

 when dry, elliptic-oblanceolate, subacute, slightly oblique aud much 

 narrowed to the base, both surfaces minutely reticulate ; main nerves 

 5 to 8 pairs, spreading, slightly prominent beneath: length 4 to 7 in., 

 breadth 1*35 to 2'75 in. ; petiolules '2 to '5 in., stout. Panicles 8 to 10 in, 

 long, with 3 or 5 narrow raceme-like puberulous branches, the ultimate 

 branchlets being few-flowered cymelets. Flowers '25 in. in diam., pedi- 

 cellate. Sepals 5, unequal, obovate, blunt, tomentose outside. Petals 5, 

 narrowly obovate-oblong, glabrous with a villous claw and a large oblong 

 basal scale. Stamens 8, the anthers glabrous and short, the filaments long 

 and villous. Fruit sub-globular, with 3 deep vertical ridges, minutely 

 tomentose, slightly apiculate and with a short thick pseudo-stalk, 3- 

 celled, 3-seeded ; the pericarp crustaceous, '8 in. long, and about as 

 broad. 



Andaman Islands : King's Collector. 



3. Lepisanthes cuneata, Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 680. 

 A shrub ; young branches tawny-puberulous. Leaves 15 to 30 in. long, 

 the rachises puberulous or minutely tomentose ; leaflets 10 to 14, sub- 

 opposite or alternate, oblong or elliptic-oblong, the apex bluntly and 

 shortly cuspidate, the base much narrowed ; both surfaces reticulate, the 

 lower slightly puberulous towards the base ; main nerves 8 to 14 paii'S, 

 spreading, curving upwards, rather prominent beneath ; length 4 to 9 

 in., breadth 1*5 to 2*75 in., petiolules "25 to "35 in. Panicles narrow 

 and spike-like, in fascicles of 3 to 5, axillary or slightly above the 

 leaves, 1 to 3 in. long. Flowers '\ in. in diam. ; hracteoles subulate, 

 minute. Sepals sub-rotund, puberulous. Petals 5, glabrous, each with 

 a single inflected scale at its base. Fruit broadly ovoid, compressed, 

 wMth a vertical groove, densely and minutely cinereous-tomentose, 

 crowned by the persistent style and obscurely 2-lobed stigma, two-celled 

 and Avitli a single seed in each cell, '25 in. broad and about the same in 

 length. 



Penang: Porter, Curtis, No. 3009. Perak: Wray, Nos. 1400, 

 1990, 3568 : King's Collector, Nos. 3059, 7072. 



