1S96.] G.King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay an Peninsula. 361 



tilings, viz., PL. obtusifolia Roxb. and H. Grahamii, Wight ; while PL. tor- 

 tuosa, Cat. No. 4216, is a mixture of PL. obtusifolia, Roxb. and of 

 PL. indioa, Willd. To PL. Grahamii, Wight, Mr. Lawson (Z. c. p. 624) 

 has reduced the plant issued by Wallich as his No. 4214, under the name 

 PL. lanceolata, Ham. But in my opinion this reduction is wrong. Under 

 PL. Arnottiana, Wight, Mr. Lawson proposes to include Salacia terminalis, 

 Thwaites, which is a tree with cymose panicles on long peduncles much 

 longer than the leaves. 



Doubtful Species. 



Hippocratea Maingati, Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 625. 

 Branches terete. Leaves coriaceous, lanceolate, glabrous, 3 in. long by 

 •75 in. broad. Cymes 3-flowered, racemose. Carpels triquetrous, woody, 

 4 to 5 in. long. Seeds oblong, 35 to 4"5 in. long. 



Malacca : Maingay, (Kew Distrib.) No. 397. Distrib. ? Borneo. 



Known only by Maingay's imperfect descriptions. (The above des- 

 cription is copied from Lawson Z. c.) 



11. Salacia, Linn. 



Scandent or sarmentose shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, 

 rarely alternate, petiolate, exstipulate. Flowers few or many, clustered 

 in the axils of the leaves or extra-axillary, more rarely in cymes. Calyx 

 small, 5-parted. Petals 5, imbricate. Stamens 3, rarely 2 or 4, continuous 

 with the disc, recurved. Ovary conical, immersed in the disc, 3-celled ; 

 style very short, stigma simple or 3-lobed ; ovules 2-8 in each cell, 

 in 1-2 series, inserted on the inner angle. Fruit baccate, 1-3-celled, 

 sub-woody or fleshy. Seeds large, angular. — Distrib. Species about 

 130 ; natives of the tropics of both hemispheres. 



Leaves alternate ... ... ... ... 1. 8. viminea. 



Leaves opposite. 



Flowers solitary or in pairs from the leaf -axils, not on 



tubercles ... ... ... ... ... 2. 8. Maingayi. 



Flowers in pedunculate axillary cymes. 



Flowers campanuloid ; the petals erect in their 



lower half, spreading in the upper ... ... 3. 8. campamdoidea. 



Petals spreading from the base. 



Leaves serrate-crenate .. ... ... 4. 8. Griffithii. 



Leaves entire ... ... ... 5. S. Perahensis. 



Flowers from short axillary tubercles. 

 Flowers "35 to # 45 in. in diam. 

 Leaves 6 to 12 in. long. 



axillary tubercles each bearing 10 or 12 



flowers... ... ... ... 6. S. Scortechinii. 



axillary tubercles bearing only 3 to 6 



flowers... ... ... ... 7. S. grandiflora 



var. longifolia. 



