1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 149 



incurved, exserted. Ovary puberulous, ovate-lanceolate ; ovules 2. Pod 

 hard, thick, irregularly oblong-ovate, with a short stalk and slightly 

 excentric acute point, 1*5 in. long, 1*25 in. wide, externally covered with 

 a pale blueish bloom ; inside white. Seed usually solitary, oblong, "75 

 in. long, *6 in. wide, somewhat compressed, bright scarlet, with anadnate, 

 black, smooth aril, '15 in. deep, embracing its base. 



Perak ; Larut, Scortechini 324 ! Kunstler 4234 ! Wray 2979 ! 

 A. very fine species ; near to 0. macrodisca, but with a smaller pod and seed as 

 well as with smaller leaflets; the seed too has the black arillar portion mrpitted. 

 It resembles 0. glauca as to leaves though its leaflets are not quite so large ; 

 it has however larger seeds than 0. glauca has, and the seeds have a black hilum ; 

 the seeds of 0. glauca are all scarlet. 



4. Ormosia nitida Prain. A tree 30-50 feet high, stem 2 feet in 

 circumference, with stout rusty-brown glabrescent branches. Leaves 

 5-7 in. long, leaflets 7, obovate or elliptic, base rounded, apex broadly 

 rounded and abruptly shortly cuspidate, very rigidly coriaceous, dark 

 gloss3 r -green quite glabrous on both surfaces, terminal 2*5— 4 in. long, 

 1*3-2 in. wide, rather exceeding the others, secondary nerves very 

 slender, 12-15 pairs. Racemes in fastigiate terminal panicles, 6-8 in. 

 long, 5-6 in. across, racbis and branches faintly puberulous, pedicels 

 puberulous, 'lb in. long, shorter than calyx, bracts and bracteoles de- 

 ciduous. Calyx *2 in. long, rather densely tawny-silky, teeth deltoid, the 

 3 lower as long as tube the two upper subconnate into a 2-fid upper lip. 

 Corolla unknown. Pod irregularly oblong, 1 in. long *75 in. across, the 

 valves thinly woody, rigid, quite glabrous and black externally, brown 

 and not suberous within, with a short stalk equalling the calyx-tube. 

 Seed oval, usually if not always sdlitary, cinnabar-red, *35 in. long 3 in. 

 wide, without arillus. 



Perak • Groping, in open jungle, local, Kunstler 6082 ! 



This very distinct specie3 has unfortunately only been reported in fruit. Its 

 pods are very like those of 0. microsperma or 0. parvifolia but appear to have been 

 glabrons from the beginning. They differ, moreover, very markedly in being shortly 

 stipitate ; the leaflets too, are of different shape and firmer texture, besides being 

 quite glabrous on both surfaces. 



5. Ormosia parvieolia Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 253. A fairly 

 large tree with slender persistently brown-velvety branches. Leaves 

 6-8 in. long, leaflets 9-13, oblong, coriaceous, green, glossy above, thinly 

 hairy beneath, apex shortly acuminate, base rounded, the terminal 

 rather larger than the others, 2-25 in. long, '6-*7 in. wide, secondary 

 nerves fine and hardly raised beneath, 8-9 pairs. Racemes in fastigiate 

 terminal panicles with rather short branches, 3-4 in. long, 2'5 in. wide, 

 with densely brown-velvety rachis and branches, pedicels brown-velvety, 

 very short, each with an ovate-lanceolate basal bract and with 2 ovate 



