1896.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 457 



Malacca : Maingay, No. 463/2. Perak : Scorfcechini. 

 3. Meliosma nitida, Blume Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. 32 ; Rumphia, 

 III, 202, t. 169. A shrub or small tree : young branches glabrous, 

 lenticellate. Leaves 12 to 18 in. long, unequally pinnate, quite glabrous, 

 the rachises deeply channelled on the upper surface ; leaflets coriaceous, 

 7 to 13, opposite or alternate, elliptic-ovate or oboyate-lanceolate, acute 

 or shortly acuminate, entire, the base more or less cuneate, rarely 

 rounded ; both surfaces quite glabrous, the lower paler and prominently 

 reticulate ; main nerves 7 to 10 pairs, spreading, curving upwards, 

 interarching at some distance from the margin ; length 4 to 12 in., 

 breadth 1*75 to 4'25 in. ; petiolules *35 to -75 in. Panicles terminal or 

 axillary, rather shorter than the leaves, scurfy-puberulous, the branches 

 short and the flowers densely crowded. Flowers '1 in. in diam., shortly 

 pedicelled; the buds pointed, the bracteole single aud coriaceous. Sepals 

 4, sub-rotund, concave, spreading. Petals 5 ; the 3 outer rotund, valvate, 

 the sutures of their edges prominent; the two inner completely enclosed, 

 small, each with a stamen opposite it. Stamens 2 ; the hooded anther 

 broad, expanded and with two rotund diverging lobes separated by a wide 

 connective, the filament tapering to a narrow base. Ovary ovoid. Fruit 

 obliquely elliptic when young, slightly flattened on one side and keeled 

 on the other ; when ripe ovoid-rotund, about 1 in. long and *8 in. in 

 diam. Blume Rumphia III, 202. t. 169 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2. 617. 

 Meliosma sumatrana, Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 6. Milling toma suma- 

 trana, Jack in Mai. Misc. II, 39 ; Nees in Flora for 1825, 106 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. I.e. Irina integerrima, Blume Bijdr, 231. 



Malacca: Griffith, Maingay, No. 461. Penang: Curtis, No. 2836. 

 Perak : (very common) King's Collector. — Distrib. Sumatra. 



4. Meliosma levis, King n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet high : 

 leaves 30 to 40 in. long; the rachises and petioles puberulous and 

 terete, the latter swollen at the base ; leaflets 10 to 12 pairs, coria- 

 ceous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate ; the edge entire, 

 recurved when dry, the base rather abruptly cuneate : both surfaces 

 glabrous ; the upper dull, opaque, olivaceous when dry, the lower 

 pale brown, tesselate-areolate ; main nerves 14 to 16 pairs, spread- 

 ing, curving, interarching far from the edge : length 5 to 7 in., 

 breadth 1 to 1*25 in. ; petiole "35 in. Panicles about as long as the 

 leaves with lax raceme-like branches, sparsely covered with very short 

 coarse rusty hairs. Flowers less than *1 in. in diam., sessile on very 

 short woody lateral branchlets ; bracteoles two, unequal, broadly oblong, 

 pubescent. Sepals 2, sub-orbicular, concave, erect, thick, puberulous 

 outside. Petals 5 ; the three outer larger than the sepals, very concave, 

 glabrous, the two inner small and irregular. Stamens 2, or sometimes 3, 

 the anther with wide hooded connective. Fruit unknown. 



