330 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



Leaves clustered at the apices of the branches, coriaceous, obovate, 

 broadly elliptic or sub-rotund, the petioles long; the apex usually- 

 broad and rounded, rarely subacute ; the base slightly cuneate, some- 

 times slightly unequal ; both surfaces puberulous when young, glabrous 

 and reticulate when old, the upper with numerous minute papillae ; main 

 nerves 6-8 pairs, spreading, prominent, the midrib prominent on both 

 sides and sometimes with 2 glands near the sides of its base ; length 4*5-8 

 in., breadth 35-4*75 in , petiole 1*75-4 in. Spikes axillary, slender, 

 longer than the petioles, shorter than the leaves, rusty-pubescent. 

 Flowers about *25 in. in diam., those in the upper part of the spike 

 male, those in the lower hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube short, stout, includ- 

 ing the ovary, minutely tomentose, the mouth with broad triangular 

 lobes, pubescent outside, densely villous inside. Stamens much exserted. 

 Drupe ovoid or globular-ovoid, densely covered with minute pale tomen- 

 tum, when dried obscurely 5-angled, 1 in. long and *75 in. in diam. 

 W. & A. Prodr. 313 (excl. syn.) ; Wall. Cat. 3968; Wight Ic. t. 91; 

 Thwaites Enum. 103; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 91; Brand. For. Fl. 

 222 ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma T, 455 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 445 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 19; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. I, 159. T. Gella, Dalz. in 

 Hook. Kew Journ. Ill, 227. T. punctata, Roth Nov. Sp. 381 ; DC. 

 Prodr. Ill, 13. T. eglandulosa, Roxb. Herb, (wrongly referred in Willd. 

 Sp. PL IV, 968). T. moluccana, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 33; Fl. Ind. 11,432. 

 Perak ; Scortechini 1684 ; King's Collector 8778. Distrib. British 

 India. 



Roxburgh describes and figures (Corona. Plants 1. 198 ; Fl. Ind. IT, 431) a form 

 of this with two glands at the apex of the petiole on the under snrface of the 

 leaf; but this form has not hitherto been collected in any Malayan country, and its 

 occurrence in British India must be rare. 



4. Terminally phellocarpa, King n. sp. A tree ; young branches 

 rather slender, deciduously rusty-tomentose. Leaves crowded near the 

 apices of the branches, coriaceous, obovate, blunt, tapering from above 

 the middle to the petiole, slightly oblique at the base ; both surfaces 

 glabrous and shining, the lower widely reticulate and minutely dotted ; 

 main nerves 4-6 pairs, spreading but curving upwards ; length 3-4 in., 

 breadth T75-2 in. ; petiole about *8 in., thickened towards the base, 

 rusty-pubescent. Flowers unknown. Fruit elliptic, blunt at each end, 

 2*3 in. long, breadth 1*5 in. ; the apex with a short sharp mammilla *15 

 in. long, the pericarp thick, spongy, with horizontal layers of fibrous 

 tissue, the endocarp woody. 



Singapore ; on Bukit Mandai, H. N. Ridley. 



This has been collected only once, and the specimens are without flowers. I have 

 named it from its corky fruit. In its leaves this greatly resembles the Philippine 

 species T, nitens, Presl } but that has a very much smaller fruit than this; more- 



