1896.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 355 



glabrous. Sepals 5, free, elliptic, obtuse. Petals 5, elliptic-rotund, 

 obtuse, larger than the sepals. Stamens 5 ; anthers broadly ovate, 

 cordate, filaments flattened. Disc cupular, glabrous or nearly so, the 

 edges obscurely lobed. Capsule narrowly ellipsoid, with 2 vertical 

 grooves, mucb tapered to the apex, glabrous, 1 to 1*5 in. long, 1-celled, 1- 

 seeded. Seed "6 to '8 in. long, ellipsoid, brown, shining. Lawson in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I. 622. K. Maingayi, Laws. I. c. K. robusta, 

 Kurz For. Flora Burma, I. 253. K. calophylla, Wall. Cat. 4335. 

 K. robusta, Kurz MSS. Bhesa Moja, Ham. MSS. ex Arn. in Ed. Phil. 

 Journ. xvi. 315 ; Walp. Rep. i. 538. Celastrus robustus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 

 626. Nothocnestis sumatrana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 531. 



Malacca: Griffith, No. 1994 (Kew Distrib.). Singapore; Maingay, 

 Kew Distrib. No. 394. Andamans, King's Collectors. Distrib. Burma, 

 Chittagong, Khasia Hills, Assam and Sikhim, Sumatra. 



I cannot discover any mark to separate K. Maingayi, Laws, from 

 typical K. pulcherrima, Wall, and I have therefore reduced that species 

 here. This is a much rarer tree in the Malayan Peninsula than the 

 next which is very common. 



2. Kurrimia paniculata, Wall. Cat. 4336. A tree 30 to 60 feet 

 high ; young shoots glabrous. Leaves coriaceous ; leaves as in the last 

 but often slightly narrowed to the base, and sometimes with as many as 

 24 pairs of nerves ; petioles varying from 1 to 2 '25 in. and occasionally 

 even 3 in. in length. Panicles shorter than the leaves, the branches sparse 

 and spike-like, puberulous. Flowers '15 in. in diam., on pedicels about 

 as long as themselves. Sepals 5, spreading, ovate, obtuse, puberulous. 

 Petals 5, much larger than the sepals, broadly ovate, sub-acute, puberu- 

 lous, especially on the inner surface. Stamens 5, rather shorter than 

 the petals, inserted between the deep quadrate lobes of the disc ; the 

 filaments flattened, puberulous ; the anthers short, broadly ovate. Ovary 

 sub-rotund, pubescent towards the narrowed apex. Fruit '65 in. long, 

 more or less deeply bifid, each half 1- or sometimes 2-seeded ; the 

 pericarp leathery, nearly black externally and glabrous. Seeds oblong, 

 often plano-convex, with dark shiny testa, "3 in. long. Lawson in Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I. 622. Bhesa paniculata, Arn. in Ed. Phil. Journ. xvi. 

 315 ; Walp. Rep. i. 538. Trochisandra indica, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 120 ; 

 Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. lxvii. Pyrospermum calophyllum, Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat, Suppl. i. 402. 



' In all the provinces except the Nicobar and Andaman islands. A 

 much commoner tree than the last. Distrib. Sumatra. 



There is considerable variety in the length of the petiole in this 

 species, but I cannot discover that differences in its length are associated 

 with differences in any other organ. 



