344 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3, 



long-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, acuminate, remotely and obscurely 

 serrate, or entire, the base cuneate ; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, impressed 

 on the upper surface "wben dry ; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1*35 to 2*5 

 in., petioles *3 to "5 in. Flowers in fascicles of 2 or 3 from the axils 

 of leaves or of fallen leaves, sometimes from a common peduncle 1 to 

 2 in. long : peduncles slender, *5 in. long, (much longer in fruit). 

 Sepals 5, small, rotund. Petals 5, broadly oblong, much larger than the 

 sepals, fimbriate. Stamens 5, the anther cells divaricate, the connective 

 thick. Ovary conical. Fruit obovate or pyriform, deeply 5-lobed, "75 

 in. long. Benn. in Horsf. PI. Jav. Rar. 13, t. 28 ; Hassk. in Nat. 

 Tijdschr. Gesch. x. 149 ; Miq. Fl. Lid. Bat. I. pt. 2. p. 588; Hook. fil. 

 FL Br. Ind. I. 607 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I. 249. F. sumatranus, Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 512. F. sphatrocarpus, Hassk, Cat. Hort. Bogor. 

 229. F. timorensis, Zipp. ex Spanoghe in Linnasa XV, (1841) 186. 



In all the Provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 

 Distrib. Burma, the Malayan Archipelago. 



A widely distributed species, varying very little. The form dis- 

 tinguished as F. sumatranus by Miquel has rather longer fruit than 

 usual, and its leaves are more distinctly serrate. 



2. EuOjSTYMUS "Wrati, n. sp. King. A small tree ; young branches 

 terete, smooth, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves as in F. javanicus, but 

 the main nerves less prominent. Cymes axillary or terminal, long- 

 pedunculate, very lax, 3 to 4 in. across ; the branches filiform, divaricate, 

 12- to 20-flowered, bracteolate at the base ; the peduncles slender, 1*5 to 

 2 in. long. Flowers nearly '25 in. in diam. on slender minutely bracteo- 

 late pedicels *25 to "35 in. long. Sepals 5, large, rotund, spreading, 

 concave, glabrescent, the edges membranous. Petals 5, not much 

 larger than the sepals, rotund, clawed ; the edges incurved, undulate 

 but not fimbriate, minutely puberulous, green with dull crimson veins. 

 Anthers 5, short, with globular cells opening upwards, the connective 

 orbicular. Disc thick, fleshy, obtusely 5-lobed. Ovary sunk in the 

 disc, broad with a conical apex : stigma capitate, small. Fruit shortly 

 and broadly pyriform, deeply 5-lobed ; calyx persistent at its much-con- 

 tracted base, *75 in. long and nearly as broad at the apex. 



Perak : on G-unong Batu Pateh, elevat. 4,500 feet ; Wray No. 403. 

 Pahang : Kota Glanggi, Ridley No. 2652. 



3. Glyptopetalum, Thwaites. 



Erect shrubs or small trees, glabrous. Leaves opposite, petioled, 

 ex-stipulate. Cymes 3- or more-flowered. Calyx with 4 short spreading 

 lobes. Petals 4, each with 2 pit-like depressions on the upper surface. 

 Stamens 4, inserted above the disc; the connective dilated ; anther-cells 



