1892.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. 61 



Penang: Pinara Bukit, elevat. 2000 feet. Curtis (No. 2414). 

 Perak : Waterfall Hill, Wray. Distrib. E. Sumatra, Forbes (No. 1638) . 



This species is known only by a few fruiting specimens collected 

 by Messrs. Curtis and Wray Junior. It is nearly allied to P. macropoda, 

 Kino- ; but its leaves have different venation and texture, the torus of 

 the ripe fruit is smaller, while the carpels themselves are larger and 

 have longer stalks. 



17. Polyalthia glomerata, King n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet high : 

 young branches glabrous, pale, rather slender. Leaves membranous, 

 elliptic to oblong, slightly oblique, acute or shortly acuminate, the base 

 slightly cuneate or rounded ; both surfaces reticulate, glabrous : the 

 midrib alone puberulous on the upper, adpressed-puberulous on the 

 lower ; main nerves 7 to 8 pairs, curved, ascending, not inter-arching-, 

 thin but slightly prominent beneath ; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1*8 to 

 2 - 6 in., petiole "25 to "35 in. Flowers about 1 in. long, in clusters of 20 

 to 30 from nodulated puberulous tubercles on the stem ; pedicels long 

 (1*5 to 25 in.), slender, puberulous, with an ovate-lanceolate bracteole 

 about the middle. Sepals thick, lanceolate-acuminate with broad con- 

 nate bases, sub-erect, puberulous. Petals coriaceous, sub-erect, linear- 

 oblono-, slightly concave and glabrous at the . base inside, otherwise 

 minutely tomentose, the inner slightly smaller than the outer. Stamens 

 numerous ; the connective with an orbicular sub-convex apical expan- 

 sion concealing the linear dorsal anther-cells. Ovaries much less nu- 

 merous than the stamens, oblong, hirsute, apparently 1-ovuled; the 

 stigma small, oblong, slightly pubescent. 



Perak ; King's Collector, Wray. Distrib. Sumati-a ; Forbes, No. 



2804. 



In all the flowers I have examined the pistils are very small (as if 

 undeveloped) and I have not been able to find more than one ovule. In 

 the Sumatran specimens the flowers are much longer than in those from 

 Perak. 



18. Polyalthia congregata, King n. sp. A tree 40 to 60 feet 

 high ; young branches at first rusty-puberulous but speedily glabrous 

 and dark-coloured. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, acute, 

 slio-htly narrowed to the rounded or minutely cordate base ; upper 

 surface glabrous except the depressed puberulous midrib ; the lower 

 pale when dry, glabrous, minutely lepidote ; main nerves 13 to 19 

 pairs, oblique, curving, thin but prominent beneath ; length 9 to 16 in., 

 breadth 375 to 7 in. ; petiole "3 or - 4 in. stout. Flowers large, in short, 

 much divided, rough, tuberculai% woody cymes from the stem near its 

 base ; the pedicels 1'25 to 175 in. long, glabrescent ; bracteole single, sub- 

 orbicular, clasping, infra-median. Sepals thick, broadly ovate-triangular. 



