1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 173 



racliis ; pedicels usually in clusters of 3, "15 in. long. Calyx '2 in. long, 

 ovoid in bud, tube rather distinct campanulate, segments 5, subequal, 

 much imbricate, broadly triangular-obtuse, coriaceous, reflexed after 

 flower opens, densely brown-velvety on both surfaces. Petals 0. 

 Stamens 2, opposite the two upper calyx-segments; filaments thick and 

 fleshy one-third to one-half as long as anther. Ovary black- velvety, 

 ovate, shortly stipitate, gradually tapering upwards into the puberulous 

 incurved style ; ovules 2. Pod obovoid or orbicular, apex not apiculate, 

 firm, spherical or slightly compressed, I in. long, '6-8 in. across, '5—7 

 in. thick ; persistently brown- velvety. Seed solitary, orbicular, widely 

 oblong or subrhomboid, pale-brown in fresh, darker in old specimens, 

 finely longitudinally striate, '45 in. long, *35 in. wide, '2 in. thick. 



Var. typica ; leaves usually ovate-lanceolate, cuneate less often 

 rounded at the base ; filaments half as long as anthers j pods orbicular 

 Yery little compressed. B. platysepalum var. typica Bak. loc. cit. 



Perak ; Lnrut, Wray 4019! MALACCA; Griffith 1847! Maingay 

 536 ! Sungei Uclang, Holmberg 821 ! Bukit Sadanen, Berry 510 (partly; 

 only the specimens termed " Sepan ") / Merliman, Berry 89 ! Ayer 

 Panas, Goodenough 1693 ! Johore ; Machap, Goodenough 2000 ! 



Var. papan ; leaves elliptic, rounded rarely cuneate at the base ; 

 filaments only one-third as long as anthers ; pods orbicular very dis- 

 tinctly compressed. 



Malacca ; Ayer Panas, Holmberg 814 ! Berry 1225 ! Goodenough 

 1553 ! 



Var. burong ; leaves oblong, rounded at base ; pods clavately 

 obovoid. 



Malacca; Selandan, Holmberg 855 ! 



The tree here described as var. typica is also the t} T pical variety of D. platy- 

 sepalum as described by Mr. Baker. For reasons given under that plant, the 

 present writer has found it necessary to treat Mr. Baker's var. Wallichii as a distinct 

 species. 



No native name is given for the specimens of D. platysepalum collected by 

 Griffith, Maingay, and Wray. Holmberg gives its Malay name an merely ' Koran ' • 

 Derry for his n. 510 collected in 1890 (which, by the way, is quite different from his 

 n. 510 collected in 1892) gives the name Sepan. For his n. 89 however Derry gives 

 the name Krangi s' Kellat ; the same name is used by Goodenongh for his n. 1693. 

 As explained under that species, Goodenough also uses this name, with the name 

 Krangi amoot as an alternative one, for D. Maingayi ; and it is true that though the 

 flowers of D. Maingayi are quite different from those of D. platysepalum, their 

 fruits are exceedingly alike and frniting specimens of the two are only to be easily 

 distinguished by the absence of pubescence from the leaves of D. Maingayi, the 

 presence of a close golden-brown pubescence on the under-surface of those of D. 

 platysepalum. Goodenough gives no native name for the Johore examples, which 

 are qnite like those from Perak and Malacca. 



