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



ity for this species by its author; but if this distribution be given on 

 the strength of Heifer's Tenasserim specimen No. 2022 (Kew Distrib.), 

 I think it is erroneous : for that specimen does not agree with Maingay's 

 (from Malacca) No. 407 which is the type of the species. 



3. Ventilago leiocarpa, Benth. Fl. Hongkong 67 ; Jonrn. Linn. 

 Soc. V, 77.- Young shoots angled and, like the inflorescence, pubeirulnns. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, glabrous, ovate-oblong, more or less shortly 

 caudate- acuminate; the edges more or less minutely crenate-serratc, some- 

 times entire, except at the rounded or slightly narrowed base: main 

 nerves 6 or 7 pairs, curved, ascending ; length 2 - 25 to 3 5 in., breadth 1 to 

 l'l in., petiole "2 in. Panicles very narrow and spike-like, much longer 

 than the leaves even when only in flower ; their lateral branches distant, 

 very short, cymose. Flowers shorter than their pedicels, "1 in. to '125 in. 

 in diam. Calyx and disc glabrescent. Fruit golden yellow, glabrous : 

 nut about "2 in. in diam. ; the wing with several vertical nerves, blunt, 

 from 2 to 25 in. long and "4 (rarely - 75 in.) broad. Lawson in Hook fib 

 Fl. Br. Ind. I, 631; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 263. V. madras- 

 patana, Benth. (not of Gaertn. ) in Hook. Kew Journ. IV, 42. 



Singapore: Ridley, No. 3607. Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 

 406 ; Griffith (Kew Distrib.), Nos. 2022 and 2026. Perak ; King's 

 Collector, Nos. 6573, 7758 ; Wray, Nos. 2276, 2335. Seortechini, No. 

 2110.— Distrib. Sumatra, Java, Hongkong. A eommon plant. 



In a few specimens the flowers are arranged in small axillary cymes ; 

 but, by the fall of the leaves, the inflorescence would be converted 

 into narrow spikes of cymes as above described. Some of the speci- 

 mens from Perak have entire leaves as much as 8 in. long and 2*5 in. 

 broad ; and these may belong to a distinct species. The species is 

 readily distinguished by its crenate-serrate shining glabrous leaves, and 

 by its glabrous several-nerved fruit- wings. A species from Sumatra 

 described by Miquel (Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 330) under the name of 

 V. lucens must be very near to, if not identical with this. If it be identi- 

 cal, the name V. lucens (published in 1860) must take precedence of 

 Bentham's name which was not published until 1861. 



4. Smythea, Seem. 



Scandent or sub-scandent unarmed woody shrubs. Leaves alter- 

 nate, petiolate. Flowers in axillary fascicles, or on leafless terminal 

 branches which form lax panicles. Calyx-tube obconic ; the lobes 5, 

 spreading. Petals 5, cucullate, broadly emarginate or 2-lobed. Sta- 

 mens 5, not covered by the petals ; the anthers incurved, didymous. 

 Disc 5-angled. Ovary half -inferior, 2-celled : styles 2, recurved. Capsule 

 with the calyx adherent to its base, ovate-lanceolate, compressed, 



