106 Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. [No. 1, 



Uvaria latifolia, Blume, as described and figured by that author has 

 larger flowers than the common Perak plant and its carpels are globular, 

 whereas those of the Perak plant are ovoid and apiculate. The plant 

 figured by Blume does, however, occur there, but it is not common. The 

 forms may be characterised thus : — 



Var. typica : flowers - 7 in. long: fruit globular, not apiculate, 1 in. 

 in diam. Uvaria latifolia, Blume 1. c. t. 15. Perak, Java. 



Yar. ovoidea : flowers '5 in. long : fruit ovoid, slightly apiculate, 

 often oblique, as much as 225 in. long, very oblique and warted when 

 young. M. latifolium, H. f. and Th. Fl. Br. Ind. 79. Malacca, Perak, 

 Singapore. The common form in the Malay Peninsula. 



5. Melodorum cylindricum, Maingay in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 80. 

 A climber : young branches minutely rusty-pubescent, speedily glabrous 

 and dark-coloured. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, brownish when 

 dry, acute or acuminate, the base rounded or slightly narrowed ; upper 

 surface quite glabrous, the lower paler, minutely pubescent ; main nerves 

 8 to 10 pairs, spreading, very faint ; length 2'5 to 425 in., breadth P6 to 

 1*8 in., petiole - 5 in. Floivers "5 in. long, solitary, axillary, drooping ; 

 buds short, pyramidal, adpressed, brown-pubescent : pedicel short, stout, 

 with minute bracteole. Sepals small, triangular, connate, forming a flat 

 spreading cup. Outer petals triangular-ovate, triquetrous with an ex- 

 cavated base ; the inner very small, triangular, glabrous. Stamens nu- 

 merous, the apex of the connective orbicular. Ovaries 4 to 6, sericeous. 

 Ripe carpels cylindric, curved, both ends obtuse, sub-tubercular, minutely 

 brown-pubescent, 1 to 1 75 in. long and '35 to '75 in. in diam. ; pericarp 

 thin ; stalk - 5 in. long, stout. Seeds many, horizontal, in two series, 

 compressed, "65 in. long, shining, with a small cartilaginous arillus. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 78. Singapore: Ridley, 

 No. 2115. 



6. Mi?lodorum hypoglaucdm, Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. II, 

 37. A strong creeper : young branches minutely rufous-pubescent, 

 xiltimately glabrous, rather pale and much tubercled. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, acute or shortly acumi- 

 nate, the base rounded or cuneate ; upper surface glabrous except the 

 rnfous-puberulous midrib ; lower minutely hoaiy-puberulous, the 10 or 

 12 pairs of bold oblique curving main nerves ultimately glabrous and 

 darker-coloured ; length 3 to 5"5 in., breadth 135 to 2'2 in., petiole '25 

 in. Floivers 5 to S in. long, in lax, 2-to 3-flowered, axillary racemes or 

 (by abortion of the leaves) in lax, terminal, 10- to 12-flowered panicles ; 

 p^lieels as long as the flowers, slender; bracteoles 1 or 2, minute. 

 Sepals ovate, acute, concave, conjoined only at the base, rufous-pubes- 

 cent outside : puberulous within. Petals leathery, linear-lanceolate, 



