1893.] Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 121 



slightly curved, thin hut prominent heneath when dry, as are the 

 transverse veins ; length 3'5 to 6*5 in., breadth 1*5 to 2'25 in. ; petiole 

 "35 in., densely stellate-pubescent, scurfy. Stipules deciduous, ovate- 

 lanceolate, nerved, stellate-puherulous. Panicles axillary and termi- 

 nal, few-flowered, tawny-tomentose, (shorter than the leaves [?]); the 

 bracts in pairs, unequal, elliptic-oblong, blunt, nerved, pubescent on 

 both surfaces. " Segments of calyx (fide Burck) unequal, the three 

 outer larger, imbricate. Petals minutely tomentose inside. Stamens 

 15, in two rows." Hopea ? Maranti, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl., 489 ; A. 

 DO. Prod. XYI, 2, p. 635. 



Perak : King's Collector, No. 880. Malacca : Derry, No. 952. 

 Distrib. Sumatra, Bangka. 



The Perak specimens are not in flower ; and I have seen none 

 from elsewhere that are. The above imperfect description of the 

 flower ha.s therefore been copied from Burck (Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, 

 VI. 217). The Perak specimens perfectly agree, as to leaves, with 

 an authentic specimen of Miquel's from Sumatra, in the Calcutta Her- 

 barium. Miquel never saw either flower or fruit. In fact, of the 

 twenty new species of Dipterocarpece described by this anthor in the 

 supplement to his Flora of the Netherlands India, the flowers are des- 

 cribed in only two, and in these but partially ! 



20. Shobea eximia, Scheff. in Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XXXI, 

 349. A shrub or small tree ; young branches petioles and under- 

 surfaces of leaves stellate- setulose. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, 

 or ob-lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, narrowed to the rounded or sub- 

 cuneate base : npper surface glabrous except the tomentose midrib, 

 shining, the nerves depressed : nnder surface scabrid, pale brown, the 

 reticulations midrib and 17 to 21 pairs of spreading nerves prominent: 

 length 6'5 to 11 in., breadth 225 to 3*25 in., petiole '25 to "35 in. 

 Stipules in pairs, persistent, ovate, acuminate, longer than the petioles, 

 reticulate, laxly pubescent and wartcd. " Wings of fruiting -calyx 

 linear-lanceolate, obtuse : the three larger narrow at the base, 3*2 to 

 3'6 in. long, - 5 in. broad, sparsely pubescent, 9-nerved ; the two shorter 

 and narrower 1*6 in. long. Fruit elongated-ovoid, acuminate, minute- 

 ly whitish-tomentose." Burck in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg VI, 218. 

 Vatica? eximia, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 486; A. DC. Prod. XVI, 

 2, 623. Vatica sub-lacunosa ? Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 486. Slwrea 

 sub-lacunosa, Scheff:. in Nat. Tijdschr. Ned, Ind. XXXI, 350 : A. DC. 

 Prod. XVI, 2623. 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 5018. Penang : King. Perak King's Col- 

 lector, 10998. Distrib. Sumatra, Bangka. 



This plant is very imperfectly known. I have copied the descrip- 



