1896.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 485 



cinereous-torrientose brahchlets and numerous softly pubescent flowers ; 

 bracts large, obovate, concave, membranous. Floivers '25 in. long, on 

 pedicels shorter than the buds. Calyx narrowly ovoid, very membranous. 

 Petals narrowly oblong, villous on both surfaces, inserted towards the 

 base of the short disc. Stamens 5. Ovary shortly stalked, densely 

 pilosej attenuated into a style longer than itself. Drupe unknown. 

 Engler in DO. Mon. Phan. IV, 235* Stigmaria verniciflua, Jack ? in 

 Wall. Cat. 980. 



I have seen only Wallich's specimen of this in the Calcutta set of his 

 plants. The specimen is a very poor one, and the above description is 

 taken mostly from Sir Joseph Hooker. Mr. Deny collected in Malacca, 

 (Herb. No. 1010) a plant of which there are two fruiting specimens 

 in the Calcutta Herbarium which, from the shape of its leaves, I would 

 have referred to this, were it not that remains of numerous stamens 

 persist at the base of one of the young fruits. Mr. Derry's plant must 

 I believe belong to an as yet undescribed species. 



3. Melanorrhcea Woodsiana, Scort. MSS. in Herb. Calc. A tree 60 

 to 100 feet high ; young branches velvetty, ferrugineous. Leaves thickly 

 coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, elliptic or elliptic-rotund, the apex obtuse or 

 rounded or emarginate, the edges sub-undulate, the base rounded or sub- 

 cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, the transverse reticulations rather 

 distinct ; the lower surface densely and uniformly rusty-tomentose, or 

 glabrescent with age : main nerves 15 to 24 pairs, sub-horizontal, very 

 prominent on the lower surface slightly so on the upper; length 4 to 

 5'5 in., breadth 1*75 to 3'5 in. ; petiole 1 to 135 in., deeply channelled, 

 dilated at the base, tomentose or glabrescent. Panicles from the upper 

 leaf-axils, longer than the leaves, on long peduncles densely and 

 minutely rusty-tomentose, branching more or less trichotomously towards 

 the apex ; the ultimate branches compressed, cymulose. Flowers sub- 

 sessile, "25 in. long, enveloped while in bud by imbricated concave 

 broadly-ovate tomentose bracts ; buds narrowly elliptic ; the spathaceous 

 calyx membranous, veined, puberulous; Petals 5, oblong. Stamens 5, 

 anthers versatile, filaments harry. Ovary obliquely ovoid, style lateral. 

 Drupe elliptic, smooth, without a pedicel ; the enlarged petals narrowly 

 elliptic, obtuse, puberuloiis, red in colour, 1*5 in. long and '75 in. broad 

 (perhaps not quite fully grown). 



Perak : Scortechini, No: 2086 ; King's Collector, No. 7788. 



This has as yet been collected only by the late Father Scortechini 

 and Mr. Kunstler, and their specimens have no ripe fruit. It approaches 

 M. Maingayi in its leaves, but has much more tomentose panicles. The 

 great distinctive mark, however, is that the flower buds of this are each 

 enveloped in a large concave sheathing bract. As regards the pubes- 

 J. ii. 62 



