1900.] Sir George King — Flora of flip, Malayan Peninsula, No. ]1. 77 



(4) In the Colophons the work Kulalikamnaj^a is said to be a part 

 of a larger work on Tantra entitled Kubjikamata. The extent of 

 Kubjikamata is said to be 24,000 9lokas and that of the Kulalikaumaya 

 6,000 only. Fortunately I brought some portion of the Kubjika- 

 mata from Nepal last year and on comparison 1 find that some verses of 

 this work are identical with some verses of that. Both have tiie same 

 interlocutors, namely, Bhairava and the Devi. The scene is h'lid in both 

 on the Himalayas at a place named Santanapura a triangular city with 

 three walls, three door-keepers, three gates. It is a rich cit}'- inhabited 

 both by celestials and terestrials. 



(5) The Tantras are regarded as very recent works. Some distin- 

 guished orientalists have pronounced them to belong to the fourteenth 

 century. The appearance of this MSS. disproves that assertion. But I 

 will not say anything on this topic to-day as I purpose to read a paper 

 on the Tantrika MSS. in Gupta character at an early date. 



(<')) The pagination is curious. At the right hand side of each 

 leaf there are four letters one below tiie other. The top letter is pri. 

 Below it is the figure. Below the figure is Ma and below it S. The 

 whole seems to be an abbreviation of (pvl mate Satsahasre, page — , i.e., 

 page so and so in the compilation running througli 6000 verses of the 

 School of the Goddess Cri. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula^ No. 11. — By 

 Sir Geokge Kin<^, K.C.I.B., M.B., LL.D., F.R.S,, &c., late Superinf en- 

 dent of the Uoyal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 



(Abstract.) 



After nearly two years of unavoidable delay a new fasciculus — the 

 eleventh — of tliose Materials has been prepared. The fasciculus gives 

 an account of the natural order Melastomaceee. 



The genera described are, 1. Otantfiera, Bl., two species; 

 0. celehica, BL, new to the Indian Flora, common in the Andamans, and 

 0. nicoharensis, T. & B. 2. Mblastoma, Linn., three species ; M, decemfidum, 

 Roxb., M. iinbricatnm, Wall., and M. malahathricum, Linn., with several 

 varieties. 3. Oxyspora DC, three species ; 0. stellulata, King, 0. acut- 

 angida, King, and 0. Ctirtisii, King, all new to science. 4. Allomoiiphia, 

 BL, three species; A. exigua, BL, A. Wrayi, King, and A. alata, Scort., 

 the two latter new to science. 5. Blastus, Lour., one species, 

 B. Cogniauxii, Stapf, new to the Indian Flora. 6. Ochthocharis, BL, four 

 species ; 0. paniculata, Korth., 0. horueensis, BL, new to the Indian 

 Flora ; 0. Javanica, BL, and 0. decumbens, King, new to science. 

 7. Anerincleistus, Korth., five species ; A. macranthus, King, A. Scorte- 



