1892.] G-. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula, 21 



spreading, minutely pubescent. Petals fleshy, about 1 in. long, con- 

 nivent ; the outer 3 ovate-rotund, very obtuse, tomentose-pubescent on 

 both surfaces, the outer surface with some small superficial scales, the 

 inner with a round glabrous spot at the base : inner 3 petals obovate, 

 clawed, pubescent outside, glabrous inside except a broad pubescent 

 band near the apex. Anthers sessile, angled, the connective projecting 

 beyond the apex, broadly truncate, almost peltate. Ovaries (fide 

 Scortechini) " several, with few stellate hairs, 2-3 ovuled : style cylin- 

 dric, curved, glabrous." Fruit unknown. 



Perak : Scortechini, No. 1990. 



Scortechini's are the only specimens I have seen, and they have 

 flowers only. 



12. Uvaria micrantha, H. f. and Th Fl. Ind. 103. A large clim- 

 ber ; young branches slender, softly rufous-tomentose, afterwards glab- 

 rous, striate, and dark-coloured with pale warts. Leaves thinly coriace- 

 ous, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, the base rounded or slightly cuneate ; 

 both surfaces glabrous except the rufous-pubescent midrib : main nerves 

 scarcely visible (even when dry), 12 to 15 pairs, spreading ; length of 

 blade 25 to 55 in., breadth "8 to 1*4 in., petiole '15 in, Peduncles ter- 

 minal or extra-axillary, very short, 2-to 4-flowered, softly rufous-tomen- 

 tose, bracts more or less orbicular; buds globose, slightly pointed, - 15 in. 

 in diam. ; flowers '4 in. in diam. Sepals sub-rotund, densely pubescent 

 outside, sub-glabrous inside. Petals broadly ovate, sub-obtuse, granular 

 and minutely tomentose outside, pubescent inside. Ripe carpels numer- 

 ous, stalked, ovoid-globose, rounded at each end, glabrous, 2- to4-seeded. 

 Seeds plano-convex, smooth ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 1, 51 ; Kurz Fl. 

 Burm. I, 22; Miq Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 26 ; Uvaria sumatrana, Kurz 

 Andam. Report, 29; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I. 51. ? Uvaria elegans, "Wall. 

 Cat. 6474 B. Guatteria micrantha, A. DC. Mem. 42 ; Wall. Cat. 6449. 

 Polyalthia fruticans, A. DC. 1 c. 42 ; Wall. Cat. 6430. Anaxagorea 

 sumatrana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 382. 



Burmah, Malacca, Penang. Distrib. Sumatra. 



As regai'ds leaves, this closely resembles Popowia nitida, King — a 

 plant of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands ; and there is reason to 

 believe that some specimens of that Popowia from those islands have 

 been issued from the Calcutta Herbarium as Uvaria micrantha. I am 

 also of opinion that Uvaria sumatrana, Kurz Andaman Report, 29, 

 and of Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. B. Ind. I, 51, is possibly Popowia nitida, 

 King. 



13. Uvaria andamanica, King n. sp. Scandent : young branches 

 rather stout, scurfily stellate-tomentose. Leaves obloug-oblanceolate, 

 shortly acuminate, much narrowed to the rounded, unequal, or minutely 



