IS96.] Gr." King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 487 



long, on pedicels "2 in. long, buds ellipsoid. Calyx tubular or narrowly 

 campanulate, its mouth with 3 broadly-triangular unequal teeth, 

 puberulous externally, withering aud hanging round the pedicels like 

 a loose collar. Petals 5, slightly imbricate, elliptic, sub-acute, spreading 

 or sub-reflexed, *2 in. long, tomentose outside, pubescent inside. Stamens 

 5, nearly as long as the petals; anthers small, ovate; filaments subulate, 

 pubescent below the middle. Ovary globose or obovoid, shorter than 

 the gynophore, both tomentose ; ovule solitary, its podosperm from 

 the very base of the cell : style longer than the ovary, cylindiic, pubes- 

 cent except near the apex, stigma truncate. Fruit unknown. 



Perak: King's Collector, No. 5552. 



This differs in calyx from Melattorrhoea as usually understood, 

 inasmuch as in this plant the calyx separates from the flower soon after 

 expansion and remains as a loose 3- toothed collar hanging round 

 the pedicel ; whereas in Melanorrhoea, as hitherto defined, the calyx is 

 calyptriforiu and is pushed off the flower by the expansion of the petals. 

 In both cases the calyx is deciduous ; in the one case it separates 

 from the flower by the apex of the latter, in the other case by ils 

 base. 



6. Melanorrhoea aptera, King.n. sp. A tree 40 to 70 feet high ; 

 young branches stout, with rough cinereous bark, the cicatrices of the 

 fallen leaves very prominent. Leaves very coriaceous, oblanceolate- 

 oblong or obovate-elliptic ; the apex broad and rounded, rarely with 

 a short sub-acute point ; narrowed from above the middle and decur- 

 rent on the short stout petiole ; the edges quite entire, slightly revolute 

 when dry; both surfaces glabrous, the upper pale greenish-brown when 

 dry, the lower brown, the midrib on the upper surface broad and flat- 

 tened in its lower half, on the lower surface convex ; main lateral nerves 

 15 to 18 pairs, spreading, rather straight, somewhat prominent beneath ; 

 length 6 to 15 in., breadth 2 to 6 in. ; petiole *5 to 1 in., stout. Panicles 

 shorter or longer than the leaves, axillary, crowded near the ends of 

 the twigs; their branches short, racemose, few-flowered, glaucous. Flower- 

 buds narrowly ellipsoid, glabrous, ebracteate. Floioers 1 in. in diam., 

 their pedicels "25 to "3 in. long, sparsely adpressed-pubescent. Calyx 

 glabrous, about '5 in. long at the time of falling. Petals 5 or 6, much 

 imbricate, oblanceolate, densely adpressed-sericeous outside, glabrous 

 inside. Stamens numerous (about 50), on a conical torus which is pro- 

 duced upwards into a gynophore. Ovary obliquely ovoid, compressed, 

 ridged, glabrous, 1-celled, with a single oblong ovale pendulous from 

 a basal funicle. Style sub-terminal, stout, bent, glabrous, longer than 

 the ovary ; stigma short, cylindric. Drupe depressed-globose, glabrous, 

 with numerous thin vertical ridges, l.'JS in. in diam. Seed solitary, 



