1896.] G. King — Materials for a Flora' of the Malayan Peninsula. 491 



clawed. Stamens 4 or 5, shorter than the petals, filaments slender, the 

 anthers short oblong ; disc thin, cylindric. Ovary stalked, obliquely 

 ovoid, pnberulous. Drupe obliquely ovoid, smooth, 75 in. long, the 

 accrescent petals reflexed, coriaceous, veined, 1*75 in. long, pericarp 

 thin. Engler in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 233. 



Penang : Maingay, No. 486/2 ; Curtis, No. 371 ; King's Collector, 

 No. 1802. Perak: Scortechini, Nos. 1891, 2083; King's Collector, 

 Nos. 3534, 3677. 



Var. Scortechinii, King ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, shortly and 

 bluntly acuminate, the base rounded or sub-cuneate, main nerves 12 to 

 14 pairs. 



Perak: Scortechini, No. 1891. 



This species and its variety are both notable for the bracts which 

 embrace the flower-buds. 



4. Swintonia lurida, King n. sp. A small tree : all parts quite glab- 

 rous ; the young branches slender, striate and dark-coloured when dry.' 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-oblong, the edges slightly 

 thickened and undulate, the apex shortly abruptly and bluntly acumi- 

 nate, the base cuneate, decurrent on the petiole ; both surfaces glabrous 

 and minutely reticulate ; the upper shining, olivaceous green when dry ; 

 the lower dull, pale liver-coloured when dry ; main nerves 22 to 24 

 pairs, rather faint, spreading to the edge without interarching, the 

 secondary nerves almost as prominent : length 6 to 8 in., breadth 1*5 

 to 225 in.; petiole "6 to *75 in., thickened near the base. Panicle ter- 

 minal, branching from the base, drooping, slender; the branches long, 

 bearing short branchlets with the numerous flowers in small cymes. 

 Male flowers a little more than '1 in. long, pedicelled.- Calyx cupular, 

 fleshy, with 5 broadly triangular teeth, glabrous. Petals 5, twice as 

 long as the calyx, pale, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, with a truncate base, 

 glabrous. Stamens inserted outside the shallow cupular dark-coloured 

 slightly 5-lobed fleshy disc, shorter than the petals : anthers short, 

 ovate, dorsifixed ; filaments broadly subulate, with a very fine-pointed 

 apex. Rudimentary ovary narrowly elliptic, sunk in the disc, tapering 

 slightly upwards ; no distinct style, stigma small, concave. Semecarpus ? 

 lurida, Hook. fil. Fi. Br. Ind. II, 34 ; Engler in DC. Mon. Phan. IV, 

 496. 



Malacca : Maingay, No. 495. Perak : Wray, No. 3249. 



A species of which female flowers and fruit are still unknown. 

 Maingay's specimens were originally described by Sir Joseph Hooker 

 as a doubtful species of Semecarpus, under the name ? S. lurida. They 

 are very incomplete. Since Maingay's time good specimens of exactly 

 the same plant, but still without female flowers or fruit, have been 



