458 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Feninsula. [No. 3, 



Perak : King's Collector, No. 7893. 



This is allied to M. lanceolufa, 'Bl., but ifc appears to me to differ from 

 tliat and from every other described species. From M. lanceolata it is 

 readily distinguished by its more numerous perfectly smooth leaflets 

 tesselate-reticulate beneath ; by its flowers on short ultimate branchlets ; 

 by its double bracteole and concave petals. 



5. Meliosma laxceolata, Blume Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. 32 ; 

 Rumphia III, 200, t. 168. A tree : young branches stout, more or less 

 covered with sbort deciduous rusty tomentum. Leaves 12 to 24 in. 

 long; tlie petiole stout, terete, swollen at the base, the rachis glabrescent 

 or puberulous ; leaflets 6 to 8 pairs with one odd, very coriaceous, 

 oblong, shortly acuminate ; the edges entire, recurved when dry : the 

 base rounded or slightly cuneate, sometimes oblique ; upper surface 

 smooth and shining, usually very rugulose from the depression of the 

 nerves and reticulations : lower surface dull, the midrib nerves and 

 reticulations very prominent and with numerous flexuose sub-adpressed 

 hairs : length 3 to 6 in., breadth 1*25 to 2 in. ; petiolules '2 to '35 in. 

 long, stout, pubescent. Panicles very large, with long raceme-like 

 branches, rusty-pubescent. Flowers in rather close clusters, sessile, 

 •I in., in diam. ; bracteole single. Sepals 3, orbicular-triangular, blunt, 

 sub-glabrous. Petals 5 ; the three outer orbicular, flat and much larger 

 than the sepals; the two inner small, irregular, shorter than the stamens. 

 Stamens 2, shorter than the outer petals, the anthers very broad. Fruit 

 sub-globular, compressed, boldly keeled, glabrous, '3 in. in diam. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 7. 



Malacca: Griffith, No. 1022 ; Maingay, No. 361; Derry, Nos. 21 

 and 1122. Singapore : Ridley, Nos. 347, 1892, 3876. 



Var. puhescens, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 7. Under surfaces of the 

 leaves and inflorescence densely and softly rusty-tomentose : fruit '4 in.. 

 in diam. 



Singapore: Ridley, No. 6341. 



6. Meliosma Ridleyi, King n. sp. A medium tree : leaves 15 in. 

 or more in length, their rachises densely and minutely rufous-tomentose : 

 leaflets 11 to 15, opposite or alternate, thinly coriaceous, oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base abruptly and obliquely cu- 

 neate ; upper surface not rugulose, sparsely adpressed-pubescent, the 

 midrib and nerves tomentose : under surface minutely rufous-pubescent, 

 the midrib and nerves with dense long shining hairs : main nerves 7 or 8 

 pairs, ascending, curving, the reticulations distinct : length 2"5 to 5 in., 

 breadth '9 to 1*2 in. ; petiolules '1 to '2 in., tomentose. Panicle longer 

 than the leaves, densely rufous-tomentose, with short branches bearing 

 the ultimate spikes of flowers. Floivers solitary, oblong, not globular 



