1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 339 



Penang. 



This variety does not appear to have been collected since Wallich's time. I 

 much doubt whether it is worth keeping up even as a variety. 



Var. pubescens, King. Leaves pubescent in the under surface. 



Perak ; King's Collector 889. 



6. Combretum squamosum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ill, 233 . A large creeper ; 

 young branches slender, cylindric, covered (like almost ail other parts of 

 the plant) with scales with broad pale margins. Leaves opposite, thinly 

 coriaceous, broadly elliptic or elliptic-rotund, rarely ovate-lanceolate, 

 shortly and abruptly acuminate ; the base rounded, rarely sub-cuneate ; 

 both surfaces dull when dry and scaly, but without hairs ; length 3'25- 

 5*5 in., breadth 2 , 25-4 , 5 in. ; petiole *3-'4 in., scaly. Spikes axillary or 

 terminal, solitary or in panicles, shorter than the leaves, few-branched. 

 Flowers '15 in. in diam. at the mouth. Calyx-tube shortly constricted 

 above the 4-angled ovary ; the mouth cupular, with 4 broadly triangular 

 teeth. Petals small, obovate. Disc and fundus of mouth of calyx 

 fulvous-villose. Fruit '75-1 5 in. long and nearly as broad (including 

 the wings), with 4 wide thin membranous wings, squamose at the 

 bottom of the deep grooves between the wings. Wall. Cat. 3987 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 607 ; G. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. XV, 438 (in- 

 accurate as to the floral symmetry) ; W. & A. Prodr. 317; Kurz For. 

 Fl. Brit. Burma I, 463; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 456. 

 C. lepidotum, Presl Bemerk. 142 (see Kurz in Flora 1871, p. 289). 

 C. Maluloea, Wall. Cat. 3991. 



Malacca ; Maingay 648. Andaman Islands. Perak ; King's Col- 

 lector 5083. Penang ; Wallich, King's Collector 1335, Curtis 258. 



A species easily recognised by being everywhere covered with scales. Some of 

 the Penang specimens have ovate-elliptic leaves ; otherwise they do not differ from 

 specimens from other places. 



7. Combretum Wrayi, King n. spec. Young branches slender, 

 striate when dry, glabrous but slightly scaly. Leaves opposite, coria- 

 ceous, narrowly elliptic, subacute or very shortly and bluntly acuminate, 

 the base rounded ; both surfaces reticulate, the upper glabrous and 

 shining ; the lower dull, glabrous elsewhere, but with some coarse hairs 

 along the sides of the midrib near its base ; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, 

 ascending, curved, slightly prominent beneath ; length 25-35 in., breadth 

 l'15-l*5 in.; petiole *35-"4 in., rather rough when dry, those in the 

 upper part of the stem and in the axils of which the spikes arise much 

 smaller. Spikes axillary, solitary, about 1 im long, the peduncles gla- 

 brous, the floriferous part pubescent and scaly. Flowers few, in clusters 

 of 2 or 3. Calyx-tube '15 in. long, shortly constricted above the ovary, 

 the mouth campanulate and deeply cut into 4 triangular acute orect 



