1892.] 0. King 1 — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. 115 



dotted. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the 

 base acute ; both surfaces glabrous, minutely reticulate ; main nerves 

 about 10 pairs, spreading, very faint, the secondary nerves almost as 

 distinct ; length 3 to 4"5 in., breadth 15 to 175 in., petiole '25 in. 

 Flowers solitary or in pairs, pendent, 1*5 in. long : pedicel very short 

 with 1 to 3 orbicular, amplexicaul, glabrous bracteoles. Sepals ovate, 

 obtuse, tubercled, connate to the middle. Petals linear oblong, slightly 

 expanded and concave at the base, hoary, pubescent ; the inner narrower 

 and shorter than the outer, sub-trigonous. Stamens numerous, the inner 

 rudimentary : apical process rounded ; anthers linear, septate. Ovaries 

 2 to 4, pilose, multi-ovular : style short. Ripe carpels cylindric, blunt at 

 each end, much tubercled, puberulous, 1*5 in. long and about '75 in. in 

 diam. Seeds 7 or 8, compressed, the testa pale, scaly. 



Singapore : Maingay (Kew Distribution in part) No. 84, King's 

 Collector No. 7079. 



3. Xylopia Malay ana, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 125. A 

 slender tree : young branches thin, glabrous, the buds pubescent. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base cuneate ; 

 both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves about 8 pairs, faint, spreading ; 

 length 3'5 to 5 in., breadth 15 to 2 in,, petiole '2 in. Floioers *6 to "9 in. 

 long, solitary or in pairs, axillary ; pedicels rufous-pubescent, - 1 in. 

 long, with several bracteoles at the base. Sepals broadly ovate, sub- 

 acute, puberulous outside and on the edges, glabrous inside, '15 in. long 

 and as broad. Petals linear-oblong, tapering to the apex, concave and 

 glabrous at the slightly expanded base, densely pubescent elsewhere ; 

 the inner slightly narrower and shorter than the outer and more con- 

 cave at the base. Stamens numerous, the apices rhomboid, papillose ; 

 the anthers long, lateral, with transverse divisions. Pistils about 6 ; 

 the ovaries oblong, densely pale-hirsute, about as long as the stamens, 

 2-ovuled ; styles about as long as the ovaries and projecting far above 

 the stamens, glabrous, sub-cylindric, clavate. Pipe carpels (fide Maingay) 

 •35 to 1 in., several-seeded ; stalk short, thick. Hook. fil. and Thorns. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. I, 85; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt, 2, 38. Parartabotrys sum- 

 atrana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 374 ; Scheffer in Nat. Tijdsch. Ned. 

 Ind. XXXI, 15. 



Malacca; Griffith, Derry, Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 81. Singa- 

 pore, Ridley. Perak ; Scortechini. Distrib., Sumatra. 



4. Xylopia Maingayi, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 85. A 

 tree ? Young branches rusty-pubescent, afterwards glabrous and with 

 white dots. Leaves small, coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, subacute 

 or obtusely acuminate, the base sub-cuneate : both surfaces glabrous and 

 reticulate, the upper pale, the lower dark ; main nerves slender ; length 2 



