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



Leaflets hairy, especially on the under surface. 



Flowers in clusters, sessile, huds globose ... 5. M. lanceolata. 

 Flowers solitary, shortly pedicelled, buds ob- 

 long ... ... ... ... 6. M. Bidleyi. 



1. Meliosma elltptica, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 5. A tree 20 

 to 40 feet high ; young branches, petioles, the midribs of the leaves on 

 both surfaces, and the lower surface especially on the nerves densely 

 rusty-pubescent or tomentose. Leaves elliptic or oblanceolate, shortly 

 caudate-acuminate, the edges entire or remotely serrate, gradually 

 narrowed from above the middle to the petiole : upper surface glab- 

 rous except the midrib and puberulous nerves ; main nerves about 10 

 pairs, curving upwards, the transverse veins distinct ; length 4 to 9 in., 

 breadth 1*25 to 3 in. ; petiole - 5 to 1*5 in. Panicle terminal, usually on 

 rather a long peduncle, longer than the leaves, the branches rather 

 few and short. Flowers crowded, sessile, *05 in. in diam. Bracteoles 

 pubescent. Sepals 4, sub-cox-iaceous, orbicular, very concave, shining, 

 snb-ciliolate. Petals 5, darker in colour than the sepals but of similar 

 shape, thick, opaque and dotted, glabrous. Fertile stamens 2 to 4. Fruit 

 sub-globular, ridged, sub-gibbous at the base, glabrous, '2 to "25 in. 

 in diam. Sabia floribunda, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 521. 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 1025 • Maingay, Perry. Perak : King's 

 Collector, Nos. 4051, 5468, 5469, 6150, 8103, and 10659.— Singapore. 

 Distrib. Sumatra. 



This is closely allied to M. simplicifolia which has however its 

 flowers in ultimate cymlets of 3, whereas in this the flowers are single. 

 The sepals moreover in M. simplicifolia are thinner and more pubescent 

 than in this. As a rule the leaves in this species are quite entire ; but 

 in several of the Perak specimens they are coarsely serrate, without in 

 any other respect departing from the typical form. 



2. Meliosma lanc [folia, Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 5. A tree : 

 young branches petioles and inflorescence rusty- villous. Leaves thinly 

 eoriaceous, oblanceolate-acuminate, entire, gradually narrowed from 

 above the middle to the petiole ; both surfaces distinctly reticulate, 

 the upper shining, glabrous except the tomentose midrib and nerves 

 lower villous on the midrib and nerves, otherwise with scattered hairs 

 main nerves 20 to. 24 pairs, spreading, curved, interarching freely 

 length 12 to 18 in., breadth 3'5 to 4 in., petiole '75 in. Panicle shorter 

 than the leaves, pedunculate, the branches few and short and the 

 flowers sessile and crowded. Flowers about *1 in. in diam. ; bracteole 

 oblong, pubescent, shorter than the 4 ovate glabrous sepals : petals 0, 

 fertile ; stamens 2 or 3, shorter than the sepals. Ovary elliptic ; styl# 

 short, tenninal. Fruit transversely ovoid-globose, keeled, glabrous, 

 "3 in. in diam. 



