502 G. King — Malerials for a Flora of the Malayan Teninsula. [No. 3, 



14. Melanocuyla, Hook. f. 

 Tiees. Leaves simple, very coriaceous, exstipulate, quite entire. 

 Panicles branched, axillary and terminal. JFloivers small, unisexunl. 

 Calyx-tuhe persistent, sliglitly enlarged in fruit and adnate to tLe very 

 base of the drupe, cupular or campanulate, lobes 5, erect. Petals 5, 

 inserted on the edge of the disc ; veiy coriaceous, persistent, erect or 

 sub-erect, villous in front, valvate. Disc lining the caljx-tube. Stamens 

 inserted on the edge of the disc; filaments stout, sometimes coherent at 

 the base with the petals, villous ; anthers oblong. Ovarrj globose, 1- 

 celled ; style short, stigmas 3 ; ovule 1, pendulous from near the top or 

 from the side of the cell. Drupe globose, areolate at the base by the 

 enlarged calyx, flesh full of black varnish ; stone thick, hard. Seed 

 oblong, testa thin ; cotyledons amygdaloid, radicle superior. — Distrib. 

 Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago : about 12 species. 

 Leaves more or less hairy on the lower surface. 

 Leaves elliptic-oblong. 



The whole of the under-surface of the leaves 

 rusty-tomentose, panicles condensed 

 Petioles midrib and main nerves on the 

 under surface of the leaves rusty-tomentose, 

 panicles lax 

 Leaves oblong-oblaneeolate or narrowly elliptic- 

 oblong. 



Lower surface of the leaves glaucescent, the 

 midrib and main nerves with adpressed 

 brown hairs, leaves 275 to 5 in. long 

 Lower surfaces of the leaves slightly pubes- 

 cent, leaves 5 to 8 in. long 

 Leaves glabrous on both surfaces. 



Leaves much* elongate, narrowly oblong, their 

 bases cordate or auriculate, sessile or with very 

 short petioles. 



Drupes vertically ridged 

 Drupes very rugose, not ridged 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, oblong-elliptic or ob- 

 long-oblaneeolate, with distinct slender petioles. 

 Inflorescence densely crowded and with large 

 prominent bracts 

 Inflorescence more or less laxly paniculate, 

 not bracteate. 



Young branches and panicles covered with 

 a thin felted layer of minute tomcntum, 

 flowers less thau -1 in. long ... ... S. M. angustifoUa, 



1. M. densijlora. 



M. tomentosa. 



3. M. Kunstleri. 



4. M. Maingayi. 



M. .auriculata, 

 M. rugosa. 



7. M. bracteata. 



