1S90.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 483 



towards the bnse : ovary obovoid-rotund, tomentose ; the style lateral, 

 elongate. Fruit unknown. 



Peralc : Wray, No. 2290. 



This differs from G. coarctata, Griff, in its longer loaf-petioles, 

 shorter panicles, broader petals and sub-obovate-rotund, tomentose, ovary. 

 It has been hitherto collected only once by Mr. Wray : fruit is as yet 

 unknown. 



Note. — Knrz (Pegu Eeport 41, and in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal for 1876, pt. 2, p. 210) 

 refers (under the name G. petiolata) to a tree which he had seen common on the 

 shores of the Andamans, but of which he had collected neither flowers nor fruit. 

 The specimens to which he has attached this name in the Calcutta Herbarium do 

 not, however, appear to me to be those of a plant of this genus. 



6. Melanorrhcea, Wall. 



Trees with much oleo-resinous juice. Leaves alternate, simple, quite 

 entire, coriaceous. Panicles axillary or terminal. Flowers rather large, 

 hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, united, calyptriform or collar-like, deciduous. 

 Petals 5-8, linear-oblong, imbricate, much enkirged in fruit. Disc 

 hemispheric or columnar. Stamens 5-10, or very numerous, inserted on 

 the disc ; filaments slender. Ovary stalked, lenticular, oblique, 1-celled ; 

 style sublateral, stigma simple; ovule 1, pendulous from a basal funicle. 

 Fruit dry, subsessile, or on a long pedicel rising from the stellately- 

 spreading persistent petals, globose, coriaceous. Seed subglobose or 

 oblong; testa papery ; cotyledons thick, plano-convex ; radicle ascending. 

 A Malayan genus of about 9 species. 



Sect. I. Eumelanorrhoea : petals accrescent in the fruit. 

 Calyx spathaceous and falling off like a calyptra. 

 Stamens 5. 

 Bracts if any small and deciduous. 

 Leaves broadly elliptic, the lower 

 surface with many very minute 

 hairs and numerous dots 

 Leaves obovate-elliptic, glabrous on 

 both surfaces, not dotted 

 Bracts large and persistent, embracing 

 the flower buds 

 Stamens 10 

 Calyx withering and remaining as a loose 

 3-toothed collar round the pedicel 

 Sect. II. Apterae: petals not accrescent. 

 Petals oblanceolate, leaves 6 to 15 in. long 

 Petals elliptic, leaves 4 or 5 in. long 



1. 



M. Maingayi. 



2. 



M. WallicJiii. 



3. 



4. 



M. Woodsiana. 

 M. Gurtisii. 



5. 



M. torquata. 



6. 



7. 



M. aptera. 



M. inappendiculata. 



