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



1 in. long, the testa thin : cotyledons plano-convex, very thick and 

 fleshy. 



Perak : King's Collectors, No. 3485, 3727, 7656. Penang : Curtis, 

 No. 1567. 



A fine species readily distinguished by its large flowers and in- 

 appendiculate fruit. 



7. Melanorrhoea inappendiculata, King n. sp. A tree 50 to 60 

 feet high ; young branches only as thick as a swan's quill, cinereous, 

 rough. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-oblanceotate ; the apex broad and 

 rounded, sometimes retuse ; the blade narrowed from above the middle to 

 the narrowly cuneate base and prolonged along part of the petiole, the 

 edges slightly revolute ; both surfaces glabrous; main nerves 15 to J8 

 pairs, spreading, straight, slender; length 3*5 to 5 in., breadth 1*5 to 



2 in. ; petiole *75 to, 1 in., -winged for half its length. Panicles about as 

 long as the leaves, axillary, solitary in the axils of the leaves, few-flow- 

 ered. Flowers '75 in. in diam. ; petals narrowly elliptic, blunt ; ovule 

 oblong, pendulous, its funicle attached to the side of the base of the 

 wide loculus of the ovary, otherwise as in M. aptera. Drupe globular, 

 glabrous, 1 to 1'5 in. in diam. 



Perak: King's Collector, No. 5418. Penang: Curtis, No. 2475. 



This is a second species of Melanorrhanoea with non-accrescent 

 petals. According to Mr. Curtis the petals are white, with a pink 

 flush at the base, and the filaments are pink, while the anthers are green. 

 The attachment of the funicle of the ovule in this species is to the side 

 of the base of the ovular loculus, whereas in M. aptera it is attached to 

 the centre of the base. 



7. Swintonia, Griff. 



Trees, quite glabrous. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, simple, quite 

 entire. Panicles terminal and axillaiy, very large and broad. Floicers 

 small, hermaphrodite or unisexual. Calyx small, 5-lobed; lobes rounded, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, adnate to the middle of the disc, linear-oblong, 

 imbricate, much enlarged and reflexed in fruit. Disc short or elongate 

 or cylindric. Stamens 5, inserted on the top of the disc, free. Ovary 

 sessile, ovoid, 1-celled, narrowed into the slender style ; stigma capitel- 

 late ; ovule pendulous from a basal funicle. Drupe ovoid, smooth, ses- 

 sile, coriaceous, subtended by the 5 reflexed enlarged petals. Seed erect, 

 testa thin, cotyledons amygdaloid. Distrib. The following are the 

 only species known. 



Bracts of the panicle inconspicuous or absent. 

 Leaves sub-coriaceous, main nerves 14 to 18 

 pairs ; flowers on very short pedicels ... 1. S. Scluvenkii. 



