1892.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. 77 



long, narrow, much compressed ; the apical process of the connective 

 small, sub-conic. Ovaries oblong, narrow ; style cylindric, puberulous ; 

 stigma 2-lobed. Ripe carpels obvoid-globular, tapering slightly to the 

 short stalk, glabrous, about 1 in. long. 

 Singapore ; at Sunga Murai, Ridley. 



It is possible that in the above description the size of the leaves 

 may be understated, as the only one which I have seen may not be of 

 average size. 



12. Goniothalamus Tapis, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 371. A 

 tree 15 to 40 feet high ; all parts, except the flowers, glabrous ; young 

 branches pale brown. Leaves coriaceous, oblong, abruptly shortly and 

 bluntly acuminate, the base rounded or slightly cuneate, the edges 

 recurved (when dry) ; both surfaces dull, brown when dry, the lower 

 paler ; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, thin, spreading, very indistinct, the 

 midrib prominent beneath ; length 5 - 5 to 9 in., breadth 25 to 325 in., 

 petiole '3 in. Flowers solitary and supra-axillary, or in fascicles from 

 tubercles on the branches ; pedicels curved, "4 in. long, bracteolate at 

 the base. Sepals free, ovate, acute, spreading, pubescent, persistent, 

 •4 in. long. Petals coriaceous, puberulous ; the outer ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, contracted and thickened at the base, l - 75 in. long ; the 

 inner ovate, acute, much contracted and thickened at the base, '65 in. 

 long. Anthers numerous and with conical apices. Ovaries narrow, hairy ; 

 style straight ; ovules solitary, Stigma sub-discoid-capitate, 2- to 3- 

 lobed. Ripe carpels crowded, obovoid, smooth, sub-sessile, - 4 to "5 in. 

 long. Miq Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. II, 35. 



Perak ; at low elevations, very common ; Scortechini, Wray, King's 

 Collector. Penang and Pangkore ; Curtis. Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo. 



13. Goniothalamus Scortechinii, King, n. sp. A shrub or small 

 tree, glabrous, except the flowers ; young branches with rather pale 

 striate bark. Leaves membranous, oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, 

 very shortly acuminate, narrowed from the above the middle to the 

 acute or sub-acute base ; when dry the upper surface greenish, the lower 

 pale brown ; main nerves 18 to 24 pairs, spreading and inter- arching* near 

 the edges, slender, slightly prominent beneath ; length 10 to 15 in. 

 breadth 2'75 to 4 in., petiole "3 in. Floivers solitary, rarely in pairs, from 

 the branches below the leaves ; pedicels clavate, decurved, bi-bracteolate 

 at the base, "5 in. long. Sepals rigidly membranous, large, orbicular- 

 ovate, obtuse or sub-acute, much nerved and reticulate, connate below, 

 persistent, from "65 to 1 in. long (according to age). Petals coriaceous, 

 rusty-puberulous ; the outer oblong-lanceolate, sub-oblique, not much 

 longer than the full grown sepals ; the inner broadly ovate, acute, about 

 •5 in. long. Anthers numerous, narrow, with elongate, conical apical pro- 



