1896.] G\ King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 505 



Calyx with. 5 ovate acute segments,- rusty-tomentose. Petals several 

 times longer than the calyx-segments, elliptic, obtuse, externally ad- 

 pressed, rusty-tomentose but with broad glabrous edges. Female ti.owe.-rh 

 twice as large as the male ; the calyx sub-urceolate ; ovary globose, 

 hairy. Drupe unknown. Engler in DC. Mon. Phan. IV, 471. 

 Malacca : Maingay, No. 490. 



5. Melanochtla auriculata, Hook. fll. Fl. Br. Lid. II, 39. A tall 

 tree ; young branches very stout, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, sessile 

 or nearly so, oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, shortly and rather abruptly 

 acuminate, the edges subundulate, tapering from the middle to the 

 narrow auriculate base ; both surfaces glabrous and shining, the upper 

 drying of an olivaceous brown, very faintly reticulate, the lower liver- 

 coloured and with the reticulations more distinct ; main nerves about 

 3'J pairs, thin but distinct on both surfaces, sub-horizontal ; length 12 

 to J 8 in., breadth 3'5 to 4"75 in ; petiole when present very stout, broad, 

 less than "5 in. long, often adnate to the branch. Male panicles axillary, 

 shorter than the leaves, puberulous ; the branches short, lax, cymose, 

 2- to 3-fl.owered. Floivers '3 in. long, on stout pedicels about as long as 

 themselves. Calyx campanulate, coriaceous, minutely tomentose outside, 

 deeply cut into 5 broadly-ovate sub-acute segments. Petals 5, longer 

 than the calyx-segments, elliptic, obtuse, externally adpressed-pubes- 

 ceut, but with the edges glabrous, internally minutely pubescent and 

 with a large villous tuft in the lower half. Stamens 5, shorter than the 

 petals, with small anthers and pubescent filaments. Female flowers not 

 seen. Drupe oblong, obtuse or depressed-globose, rusty-tomentose, 



.when ripe 1*25 to l'o in. long, vertically ribbed, stone very thick. 

 Engler in DC. Mon. Phan. IY, 470. 



Malacca: Maingay, No. 491; Derry, No. 1189. Singapore: Ridley, 

 Nos. 3588, 3975. 



6. Melanochyla. rugosa, King n. sp. A large tree : young 

 branches as thick as a goose-quill, tawny-pubescent with long pale 

 flexuose hairs intermixed. - Leaves coriaceous, narrowly oblong, some- 

 times almost oblanceolate, shortly and sharply caudate-acuminate, 

 tapering very gradually to the cordate sub-auriculate base : upper sur- 

 face smooth, shining, and .quite glabrous ; the lower dull, pale, and dis- 

 tinctly reticulate, glabrous except a few scattered stiff hairs near the 

 base of the stout grooved midrib ; main nerves 25 to 30 pairs, spread- 

 ing, curving upwards and interarching at the apices ; length 7 to 15 

 in., breadth 1*6 to 325 in. ; petiole '35 to *5 in., very stout, dilated, pu- 

 bescent like the young branches. Male panicles not seen. Female 

 panicles terminal, about half as long as the leaves, stout, rusty-pubescent, 

 with a few distant short branches. Female flowers "3 in. in dium.. 



