1897.] G. King —Materials fdr a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 319 



Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Ill, 74; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. CXCITI ; Dalz. 

 and Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 96 ; Brandis For. Flora 219 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 



II, 439. Trim en Flora Ceylon I, 155. C. ceylanica, 0. corymbosa, and 

 C. sinensis, Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. I, 371. C. ceylanica, Arn. Wight 



III. 211 t. 90. C. timorensis, Blnme Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 128 ? C, 

 octopetala, Muell. Fl. Anst. Trop. Oco. ex Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Ill, 

 74. C. symmetria, Blume Mus. 1. c. 130. 



Perak ; very common. Singapore, and probably also in several of 

 the other provinces. Distrib. Malayan Archipelago, China, Australia, 

 British India. 



DeCandolle's C. wtegerrima, published in 1828, is in my opinion merely the en- 

 tire-leaved form of this very common Indian tree, the leaves of which are sometimes 

 serrulate and sometimes entire. It is a tree which Roxburgh could not possibly have 

 overlooked. He published and figured the serrulate-leaved form of it as C. liccida 

 in his Coromandel Plants (1819), having previously given the name in his Hortns 

 Bengalensis, p. 92. In the belief that 0. lucida is the oldest name for this plant, 

 I have followed Kurz in restoring it. DeCandolle's name C. integerrima is however 

 adopted by Mr. Bentham, and also by Mr. Henslow who described the Rhizophoreze 

 in Hooker's Flora of British India. 



2. Carallia Scortechinh, King n. spec. A shrub or small tree; 

 young branches slender, opposite, smooth, dark-coloured when dry. 

 Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, shortly caudate-acuminate, the 

 base slightly cuneate ; the edges entire, slightly revolute when dry ; 

 both surfaces shining, the lower with sparse black dots and with 

 the numerous spreading main nerves slightly prominent; length 2-275 

 in., breadth 1-1*25 in., petiole 2-25 in. Stipules lanceolate, *25 in. long, 

 caducous. Cymes axillary, on pedicels slightly longer than the petioles, 

 trichotomous, spreading, not crowded. Flowers S-5, rather more than 

 •1 in. long and about the same in width at the mouth, on pedicels nearly 

 '1 in. long and bracteolate at the base. Calyx-tube campanulate, with 5 

 triangular lobes half as long as itself, their apices slightly inflexed. 

 Petals 5, thin, reniform, erose-crenate, clawed, each embracing a stamen. 

 Stamens 10, inserted on the 10-toothed epigynous disc, unequal. Ovary 

 adnate to the calyx-tube, 5-celled, with 2 axile ovules in each cell. 

 Style stout, as long as the calyx-lobes, stigma 5-lobed. Fruit unknown. 



Perak ; Scortechini 2023 ; King's Collector 1013. Singapore ; Ridley 

 5593. 



The specimens collected by Scortechini are described by him as taken from a 

 shrub 5 or 6 feet high, while those collected by Mr. Kunstler are noted as from a 

 tree 30-40 feet in height. They resemble each other exactly both in flowers and 

 leaves, and I have no doubt whatever that the two belong to the same species. I 

 give this species a name with considerable hesitation ; for it does not differ much 

 from Roxburgh's description of C. lancdefolia. It also closely resembles C. cuspidata, 

 Blume, in leaves, but has larger flowers. 



