60 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. [No. 1, 



Malacca ; Maingay (Kew Destrib), No. 101. 



I have seen only Maingay's Malacca specimens of this plant. 



15. Polyalthia macro poda, King ii. sp. A tree 50 to 60 feet 

 high ; young branches rather pale, pubescent but speedily glabrous. 

 Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base 

 acute ; the edge slightly re volute ; upper surface shining, glabrous 

 except the puberulous sulcate midrib ; the lower paler when dry, 

 minutely lepidote, sparsely strigose on the midrib and 8 or 9 pairs of 

 curving rather prominent nerves ; length 3"5 to 5" 5 in., breadth 1*4 to 

 21 in., petiole *25 in. Flowers nearly 1 in. long, in fascicles on short 

 broad rugose woody tubercles from the stem close to its base : pedicels 

 about 1 in. long, woody in fruit and 2 in. or more in length, glabrous ; 

 bracteoles (if any) deciduous. Sepals broadly ovate, acute, spreading, 

 corrugated and glabrescent outside, glabrous inside, connate at the base 

 to form a cup "65 in. in diam. Petals elliptic, blunt, sliglitly constricted 

 about the middle, sub-equal, puberulous, coriaceous. Stamens numer- 

 ous, compressed especially the outer rows ; apical process of connec- 

 tive transversely elongated, truncate Ovaries numerous, oblong-ovoid. 

 Ripe fruit with large woody sub-globular torus 1'25 in. in diam. ; ripe 

 carpels numerous, oblong-ovoid, tapering to the apex, the base gradually 

 narrowed into a stalk, 2*5 to 3'5 in. Ling (including the stalk) ; pericarp 

 rather fleshy, glabrous. Seed solitary, elongated-ovoid, grooved verti- 

 cally. 



Perak : King's Collector, Singapore, Ridley. 



A species remarkable for its large ripe carpels borne on the stem 

 near the ground. It is possible that Mr. Ridley's plant, collected in 

 Singapore, may really belong to a distinct species, the only specimen of 

 it which I have seen being very imperfect. This comes very near P. 

 clavigera King. 



16. Polyalthia clavigera, King n. sp. A tree 30 to 40 feet high ; 

 voting branches slender, at first puberulous but speedily glabrous and 

 pale. Leav( s thinly coriaceous, oblong, tapering to each end, acuminate ; 

 both surfaces reticulate; the upper shining, glabrous except the puberul- 

 ous sulcate midrib ; lower surface slightly puberulous at first but ulti- 

 mately quite glabrous : main nerves 7 pairs, ascending, curved, not 

 inter-arching, slightly prominent beneath, obsolete above ; length 55 

 to 85 in., breadth 175 to 2'5 in. ; petiole - 4 in. slightly winged above. 

 Flowers unknown. Peduncle of ripe fruit stoat, woody, 2 in. or more in 

 length ; the torus depressed-globular, woody, about - 5 in. in diam. : ripe 

 carpels ovoid-elliptic, tapering to each end, the base gradually passing into 

 the stout puberulous slightly scabrid stalk, greenish-yellow when dry, 

 glabrous : the pericarp succulent ; length 225 in., breadth nearly 1 in ; 

 stalk 15 in puberulous; seed solitary, ovoid. 



