500 G. King — Material* for a Flora, of the Malayan "Peninsula. [No. 3, 



depressed-hemispheric, sessile. Calyx coriaceous, tomentose out* 



divided into 5 orbicular-ovate acuminate concave conniving 



Petals 5, not much exceeding the calyx, coriaceous, broadly triangular, 



minutely pubescent, with a small villous patch at the base in front* 

 Stamens rudimentary. Ovary broadly conical, rusty- tomentose; the 

 style terminal, glabrescent, shorter than the ovary ; stigma capital 

 lobed. Drupe globular-ovoid, very rtigulose, rufous-tomento.se, "75 v> 1 

 in. long and '65 to "9 in. in diam. (probably not quite mature). 



Perak, at Tapu : Wray, No. 1301. 



A species with leaves somewhat like those of M. auriculata. but 

 smaller : collected only once. 



7. Melanochyla bracteata, Kingn. sp. A tree 50 to BO Eeei high i 

 young branches slender, glabrous, with pale lenticellate bark. /. 

 coriaceous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, tapering to each end, the apex 

 caudate-acuminate, the base narrowly cuneate ; both surfaces <?lab: 



the upper shining; the lower dull, paler than the upper, ylaucescnr ; 

 main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, slender, faiut, curving upwards : length 4 to 

 6 in., breadth 1 to 1*6 in. ; petiole - 5 to "75 in., tliickened in the lower- 

 half. Maze flowers "25 in. long, crowded in small sub-sessile cymules on 

 axillary or terminal rusty-pubescent congested racemes or few-branched 

 panicles as long as or longer than the leaves ; bracts at the bases both 

 of the cymules and of the individual flowers, ovate, acuminate, con 

 rusty-pubescent like the calyx and petals, and as large as the flo 

 Calyx campanulate, with 5 ovate acute segments. Petals 5, longer than 

 the segments of the calyx, lanceolate, acuminate, with a deuss villous 

 tuft on the lower half of the anterior surface Stamens 5, shorter, 

 than the petals ; the anthers linear, glabrous , the filaments thick, com- 

 pressed and densely villous from base to apex. Pise lining the inflated 

 tube of the calyx, ovary none. Female floweks not seen. Drupe ovoid or 

 ovoid-globular, minutely tomentose, about '75 in in length, the pericarp 

 with a thick black juice. 



Perak: King's Collector, Nos. 5,549 and -7303. 



A very distinct species distinguished by the small size of its leaves 

 and by its congested bracteate inflorescence. 



8. Melanochyla angustifolia, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 39. A 

 tree : young branches slender, covered with a thin close layer of very 

 minute tomentum. Leaves coriaceous, oblong or oblanccolatc-oblong. 

 shortly acuminate, the edges slightly undulate, the base cuneate, 

 sometimes unequal, both surfaces glabrous, the lower reticulate : main 

 nerves 12 to 16 pairs, spreading, prominent like the midrib on the 

 lower surface, less so on the upper, length 4*5 to 10 in., breadth 1*5 to 

 4 in. ; petiole '75 to 1'5 in., dilated and channelled near the base. 



