181'6.] G. Kiu<^~Materiah for a Flora of the Mahti/an rntiii^uln. iftn 



Leaves coriaceous, main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, 



inconspicuous ; pedicels longer tlian the ilower, 



slender ... ... ... ... 2. S. r^nin,n,i<u,a. 



Flower-bads embraced by large concave imbri- 

 cate bracts ... ... ... ... 3. S.spicifrra. 



Imperfectly known species ... ... 4). S. lurida. 



1. SwiNTONiA ScHWENKir, Teysm. and Binn. Cat. Hoit. Bogor. 

 (1866) p. 230. A tree; young branches slender, glaucous. Leaves 

 sub-coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, shortly and ob- 

 tusely acuminate, the edges sub-undulate, the base slightly narrowed 

 but usually rounded ; both surfaces obscurely reticulate, the lower paler 

 when dry; main nerves 14 to 18 pairs, spreading and rather straight: 

 length 3 to 6 in., breadth 125 to 1"5 in.; petiole 1*25 to lo in. slender, 

 with a slight swelling at the very base. Panicles crowded at the ends 

 of the branches in the axils of the upper leaves, slender, usually longer 

 than the leaves, pedunculate; the branches short, alternate, spreading, 

 the ultimate branchlets cymose. Flowers polygamous, "1 in. diam., on 

 very short pedicels. Segments of tlie calyx united only at the base, 

 orbicular, concave, glabrous. Petals oblong, obtuse, pubescent on both 

 surfaces, rapidly enlarging in the ripe fruit and reflexed, 25 in. long, nnr- 

 rovvly oblong, coriaceous, veined. Drupe oblong, smooth, '75 in. long. 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. XXXIX, Pt. 2, (1870), 75; Engler 

 in DC. Mon, Phan. IV, 232. Anauxartopetalum Schwenkii, Teysm. and 

 Binuend. in Miquel Journ. I, 368. Astropetaluin 2, Griffith, Notul. IV, 

 415. 



Malacca: Griffith, No. 1156; Maingay, No. No. 486.— Disnim 

 Sumatra. 



I have followed Sir Joseph Hooker and Di*. Engler in identifying 

 this Malacca species of Sivintonia with S. Schwenkii, T. B., although 

 the specimens in the Calcutta Herbarium hardly bear this out. In 

 the Calcutta Herbarium there are authentic specimens of Anaux- 

 anopetalum ScJnveiikii — the name originally given to the species by 

 Teysm. and Binn. These specimens M^ere collected in the Beuittnzorg 

 garden and were sent out by its authors. They are therefore pi-acti- 

 cally type specimens, for as the authors explain (Miq. Journ. Bot. I, 

 369)- the species was named in the Beuitenzorg gjirden from specimens 

 taken from trees originally received from Sumatra by Ma.ior Schwenk. 

 Dr. Anderson in 1861 also collected in the Beuitenzorg garden specimens 

 of the same. These Beuitenzoig specimens all agree in having flowers 

 with rather long pedicels. Now, in describing S. Schtveiikii in the Fl. 

 Br.' India from the Malacca specimens. Sir Joseph Hooker makes it a 

 diagnostic mark of the species, as understood by him, that the flowers 



