1892.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. 09 



admit this species in which the inner -whorl of petals is absent. In 

 other respects the species agrees perfectly with the original diagnosis. 

 Teysmann and Binnindyk's mono- specific genus Bhopalocarpus (Miq. 

 Ann. Mus. Lmgd. Bat. II, 22, t. 2 fig. B.) is an unmistakable Anaxagorea 

 in which the inner petals are narrow and incurved. It is probably near 

 A. luzonensis. A. Gray, and A. javanica, Bl. (See Benth. and Hook fil. 

 Gen. Plant. I, 957). 



13. Disepalum, Hook. fil. 

 Trees or shrubs. Sepals 2, large, concave, valvate. Petals 4, 

 narrowly linear-spathulate, incurved, inserted remotely from each 

 other on the margin of the very broad, sub-concave torus. Stamens 

 numerous ; the apical process of the connective broadly orbicular, sub- 

 convex. Pistils 10 to 15 or numerous, ovoid ; style short, terete ; stigma 

 small, terminal ; ovule solitary. Leaves minutely pellucid-punctate. 

 Flowers in long terminal peduncles, solitary or in pairs, Distrib. Three 

 species, all Malayan. 



1. Disepalum longipes, King, n. sp. A glabrous tree 30 to 40 feet 

 high; young branches slender, pale brown. Leaves minutely pellucid- 

 punctate, membranous, oblong, sometimes slightly oblanceolate, rarely 

 oblong-elliptic, abruptly and shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; 

 main nerves 7 to 10 pairs, spreading, (sub-horizontal) very faint; length 

 4 to 7 in., breadth 1*5 to 2'25 in., petiole '25 in. Flowers on long 

 pedicels, dark red, solitary or in pairs, terminal, "5 in. in diam. ; pedicels 

 slender, ebracteolate, 125 to 2 in. long. Sepals reflexed, concave, 

 broadly ovate, blunt. Petals remote from each other, linear-spathulate, 

 sub-incurved, "2 in. long. Stamens numerous ; apical process of the 

 connective orbicular, sub-convex. Ovaries numerous, stalked, slightly 

 obovoid; glabrescent or sparsely pubescent, 1-ovuled ; style short, 

 straight ; stigma small, terminal. Immature carpels ovoid, sub-glabrous, 

 slightly corrugated ; pericarp fleshy, fragrant. Seed solitary, ovoid. 



Johore; on Gunong Pauti at 1,500 feet; King's Collector, No. 231. 

 Distrib. Borneo, Beccari (P. B. 1645). 



The genus Disepalum was founded by Sir Joseph Hooker on a 

 Bornean shrub collected by Lobb, and the only species known to its 

 founder was that described and figured under the name of D. anomalum 

 in the Linnsean Transactions (Vol. XXIII, 156, t. 20 A.) The charac- 

 ters which separate the genus from any other in the family are the dimer- 

 ous symmetry of the sepals and petals, and the small size of the latter, 

 which originate at some distance from each other from the edge of the 

 broad sub-concave torus. The species here described differs from D. 

 anomalum in its arboreous habit, larger leaves, and much more numerous 



