1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 341 



Perak ; Kings Collector 3469, 8140. 



10. Combretum Scortechinii, King n. spec. Young branches 

 slender, softly sericeous-tomentose. Leaves opposite, thinly coriaceous, 

 oblong-elliptic or sometimes oblong-oblanceolate, the base rounded or 

 very minutely cordate ; upper surface shining, glabrous except the 

 depressed rusty-sericeous midrib ; lower surface reticulate, with many 

 long adpressed hairs near the base and along the prominent midrib, 

 the nerves and intercostal spaces with shorter scattered hairs, when 

 old almost glabrous ; main nerves about 7 pairs, ascending, curved, 

 prominent on the lower surface, slightly depressed on the upper, length 

 325-45 in., breadth 1-4-1-75 in., petiole 1-*15 in. Panicles axillary 

 and terminal, shorter than the leaves ; the branches few, short and few- 

 flowered, everywhere softly sericeous-tomentose. Calyx-tube 1 in. 

 long, cylindric ; the mouth slightly longer, widely campanulate, with 

 4 shallow broad acute reflexed teeth, softly tomentose like the tube. 

 Petals 4, inserted near the edge of the calyx and projecting beyond 

 it, broadly ovate-lanceolate, reflexed, pubescent. Stamens 8, exserted. 

 Fruit with 4 thin sub-coriaceous wings, pointed at each end, glabrous, 

 1*25 in. long, and *65 in. broad. 



Perak ; Scortechini. 

 Collected only once, and the specimens are few. 



5. Quisqualis, Linn. 



Large shrubs scandent or subscandent. Leaves opposite, oblong or 

 obovate, acuminate, entire. Flowers large, in short axillary or terminal 

 spikes. Calyx-tube slender and much prolonged above the ovary, deci- 

 duous, its limb 5-lobed. Petals 5. Stamens 10, short. Ovary 1 -celled ; 

 style filiform, partially adherent to the calyx-tube, stigma sub-capitate ; 

 ovules 3 or 4, suspended from the apex of the loculus. Fruit dry, 

 5-angled or 5-winged, coriaceous, subindehiscent. Seed solitary, cotyle- 

 dous plane. Distrjb. Species 5, tropical Asian or African. 



Calyx-tube less than 1 in. long ... ... ... 1. Q. densiflora. 



Calyx-tube from l - 5-2 - 5 in. long ... ... ... 2. Q. indica. 



]. Quisqualis densiflora, Wall. Cat. 4011. Young branches 

 minutely rusty-puberulous. Leaves elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate-ob- 

 long, shortly acuminate, the base rounded or minutely cordate ; upper 

 surface glabrous except the pubescent midrib and maiu nerves ; lower 

 surface glabrous, the 6 pairs of curved ascending main nerves with tufts 

 of hair in their axils ; both surfaces shining and minutely papillose ; 

 length 35 to 45 in., breadth 1*5-2 in. ; petiole -2-3 in., pubescent on the 

 upper surface. Spikes axillary and solitary, or terminal and almost 

 panicled, rusty-pubescent ; bracteoles lanceolate, sub-persistent, rusty- 



