1896.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula'. 503 



Young- brandies glabrous, panicles pubes- 

 cent-tornentose (not felted}, flowers more 

 than -1 in. long ... ... ... 9. M. nitida. 



1. Melanochyla dknsiplora, King n. sp. A tree 60 to 300 feet 

 high : young branches stout, covered with short rusty deciduous tomen- 

 tum. Leaves very coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, sometimes slightly obovate, 

 subacute, somewhat narrowed to the rounded slightly unequal base ; 

 upper surface glabrous, not reticulate, the midrib and nerves slightly 

 depressed when dry ; lower surface densely and minutely rusty-tomen- 

 tose, the midrib very prominent as are the 20 to 25 pairs of strong sub- 

 horizontal main nerves ; length 6 to 8*5 in., breadth 2*5 to 35 in. ; petiole 

 •65 to 1 in., thickened and channelled near the base. Panicle terminal, 

 condensed, shorter than the leaves, branched from the base, every- 

 where rusty-tomentose ; branches numerous, the branchlets racemulose 

 and bearing the flowers in ultimate sub-sessile crowded cymules. 

 Maze flowers '2 in. long, sessile ; buds ovoid, gibbous near the base. 

 Calyx fleshy, campanulate, rusty-tomentose externally with 5 triangular 

 sub-acute sub-erect segments. Petals 5, twice as long as the calyx-teeth, 

 erect, thick, elliptic, obtuse, tomentose along the midrib externally, the 

 edges glabrous, but with a tuft of coarse hairs along the lower part of 

 the midrib. Stamens 5, shorter than the petals, anthers elliptic ; filaments 

 compressed, densely villous in front, about as long as the anthers ; disc 

 small, slightly convex, villous in the middle ; ovary 0. Female flowers 

 and drupe unknown. 



Perak : King's Collector, JSTos. 5615 and 5626. 



A species allied to M. tomentosa, Hook. fil. ; but at once distinguished 

 from that by its denser panicles, larger and more numerous flowers. 

 This is also much more hairy on the under surface of the leaves than M. 

 tomentosa. Female flowers and fruit are still unknown. 



2. Melanochyla tomentosa, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Tnd. II, 38. A 

 tree : young branches rather slender, densely rufous-tomentose. Leaves 

 coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, sometimes slightly obovate, shortly and 

 sharply acuminate, the base rounded but slightly narrowed ; upper 

 surface quite glabrous except the pubescent base of the midrib ; lower 

 surface reticulate, glabrescent, pale when dry, the midrib and nerves 

 more or less rufous-pubescent like the petiole : main nerves 20 to 30 pairs, 

 spreading, prominent on the lower surface ; length 65 to 14 in., breadth 

 2-75 to 4 in. ; petiole *35 in., stout, rufous-pubescent. Panicles terminal. 

 about as long as the leaves, the main axis rufous-tomentose ; the branches 

 slender, distant, sub-erect, puberulous, spike- like, bearing the flowers in 

 distant sub-sessile cymules. Male flowers about 1 in. in diam. Calyx 

 with 5 deep unequal ovate concave segments, puberulous externally. 



