1896.] (x. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 367 



length P75 to 3 - 5 in., breadth 1 to 1*5 in., petiole "15 to "25 in. Flowers 

 •25 in. in diam., 3 to 6 from small tubercles in the axils of the leaves 

 or from the smaller branches below the leaves ; their pedicels slender, 

 about - 25 to "35 in. long. Calyx cupular, with 5 rounded concave lobes. 

 Petals much larger than the calyx-lobes, broadly cordate, obtuse, often 

 claAved at the base, the edges membranous. Disc broad, fleshy, convex. 

 Stainens 3, from the upper edge of the disc ; the filaments flat but not 

 broad, erect : anthers small, transversely oblong, 2-celled. Ovary small, 

 conical, 3-angled, buried in the disc. Fruit ovoid -globular, '5 in. in 

 diam., 1-celled, 1-seeded. Blume Bijdr. 221 ; Wall. Cat. 4219 : W. and 

 A. Prod. 105 : J)alz. and Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 33 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, 

 I, 260 : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, p. 597 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 

 626. S. podopetala, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1863, 1, 581. S. 

 Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 4221. Johnia coromandeliana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 I, 169 ; DC. Prod. I, 571. Tonsella prinoides, Willd. in Act. Acad. Cur. 

 Ber. IV, 184. 



In all the provinces. — Distrib : British India, Ceylon, the Malay 

 Archipelago, Philippines. 



Var. macrophylla, leaves broadly elliptic, acuminate, much narrowed 

 at the base, 4 to 5 in. long, and 175 to2 - 75 in. broad. 8. macrophylla, 

 Bl. Bijdr. 221. 



Perak: King's Collector, 7552; Wray, No. 2133. Distrib. — Java. 



10. Salacia polyantha, Korth. in Flora XXXI for 1848, p. 379. 

 Scandent, glabrous ; young branches dark-coloured when dry, minute- 

 ly warted. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, the apex 

 shortly and obtusely acuminate, the base cuneate, the edges with 

 remote shallow serrations ; the upper surface shining when dry and 

 sub-olivaceous, the lower dull brown ; length 3'5 to 4*5 in., breadth l - 25 

 to 2 in., petiole "35 in. Floivers about "25 in. in diam., on slender 

 pedicels '5 to "65 in. long, crowded on very short bracteolate axillary 

 tubercles. Calyx flat, fleshy, with 5 rotund slightly imbricate lobes. 

 Petals 5, much larger than the calyx-lobes, broadly elliptic, obtuse, con- 

 cave, spreading. Pise very convex, fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 3, insert- 

 ed near the upper edge of the disc : filaments flat but not very broad, 

 short, sub-recurved ; anthers small, transversely oblong. Fruit un- 

 known. 



Tongkah : Curtis, No. 2917. Kedah : Curtis, No. 2574. Distrib — 

 Borneo. 



Mr. Curtis describes his Tongkah plant as a climbing shrub and 

 his Kedah plant as a tree ; but I cannot find any difference in their 

 flowers or leaves. 



11. Salacia Wrayi, King, n. sp. A stoat climber: young 



