1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 333 



when in fruit, rusty-pubescent. Flowers 15 in. in diam., those in the 

 upper part of the spike male, those in the lower hermaphrodite. Calyx 

 minutely rusty-pubescent outside ; the tube narrow, sub-cylindric in the 

 female, tapering much upwards ; the mouth wide, cupular and with 

 5 broadly triangular shallow reflexed teeth, shortly lanate at the 

 base. Stamens exserted. Fruit narrowly elliptic, cylindric at the ends, 

 * 75-1 25 in. long; the edges produced into 2 coriaceous, horizontally 

 striate, glabrous wings each 6-1 in. wide. 



Singapore ; Ridley 5733. Malacca ; Berry 1037. Perak ; King's 

 Collector 4529. 



2. Calycopteris, Lamk. 



A diffuse sub-scandent shrub with drooping branches. Leaves 

 opposite, shortly petioled, elliptic or ovate, acuminate, entire. Racemes 

 dense, axillary, and crowded towards the ends of the branches so as to 

 form large panicles. Flowers small, greenish, each with a lanceolate 

 bract. Calyx-tube 5-striate, produced above the ovary ; limb 5-fid, 

 persistent and much enlarged in fruit. Petals 0. Stamens 10, the five 

 upper ones between the calyx-teeth, the five others alternate with them 

 and lower down on the calyx-tube. Ovary 1 -eel led, inferior ; style 

 subulate, simple ; ovules 3, pendulous from the top of the cell. Fruit 

 narrowly ovoid, 5-ribbed, villous, 1-seeded, surmounted by the enlarged 

 calyx. Cotyledons convolute. The only species. 



Calycopteris flortbunda, Lamk. Diet., Suppl. II, 41, and 111. t. 357. 

 A diffuse scrambling shrub, sub-scandent ; young branches slender, 

 puberulous. Leaves sub-coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, 

 sometimes shortly acuminate, the base rounded or slightly narrowed ; 

 both surfaces minutely tomentose, the upper tawny, the lower rusty and 

 pitted ; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, ascending, curved, rather prominent 

 beneath ; length 2*5-4 in., breadth 1-2 in., petiole *2-'3 in. Inflorescence 

 rusty-tomentose. Flowers *35 in. in diam., sessile, yellowish-green, 

 each with a short lanceolate pubescent bracteole. Stamens unequal, but 

 all much shorter than the linear-lanceolate calyx-lobes. Fruit about 

 *35 in. long, narrowly oblong, 5-angled, crowned by the enlarged 

 veined calyx-lobes which often attain from *75— 1 in. in length. Bran- 

 dis For. Flora 220 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 449. Caly- 

 copteris nutans, Kurz Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. XLVI, pt. II, p. 59 ; 

 For. Flora Burma, I, 468. Getonia floribunda, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 87 and 

 Fl. Ind. II, 428; Roth Nov. Sp. 216 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 15 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 91 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 605 ; W. & A. Prodr. 315 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 4013. Getonia nutans, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 33; Fl. Ind. II, 

 428; Wall. Cat. 4012 ; Miq. 1. c. ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 15. Getonia nitida, 

 Roth Nov. Sp. 217. Combretum sericeum, Wall, in Herb. Calc. 



