118 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. [No. 1, 



Ripe carpels (fide Hooker) 2 or 3, sub-globose or ovoid, pubescent, "5 in. 

 long, 2-seeded. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 85 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 

 2, 38. Guatteria (?) caudata, Wall. Cat. 6452. 



Singapore : Wallich, Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 79. Malacca ; 

 Griffith. 



10. Xylopia stenopetala, Oliver in Hook. Ic. Plantar, t. 1563. A 

 tree 50 to 60 feet high : young branches dark-coloured, glabrescent, 

 minutely lenticellate. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, shortly 

 and obtusely acuminate, the base sub-cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, 

 shining; the lower glaucous or glaucescent, sparsely adpressed-pubes- 

 cent ; both reticulate ; main nerves 10 or 12 pairs, spreading, inter- 

 arching close to the edge, faint : length 25 to 4'5 in., breadth 1] to 1*6 

 in., petiole "25 in. Floioers axillary, solitary or in fascicles of 2 to 5 ; 

 pedicels slender, often decurved, puberulous, with one minute bracteole, 

 •5 to '75 in. long. Sepals united to form a small puberulous cup with 

 acute, spreading teeth. Petals fleshy, very narrow, slightly expanded 

 and concave at the base, minutely tawny-pubescent, the inner slightly 

 shorter and narrower. Stamens linear, the connective prolonged into 

 a cylindro-conic apical appendage ; the anthers fusiform, lateral. Ovaries 

 numerous, elongate, pubescent, 6-ovuled ; style filiform: stigma sub- 

 clavate. Ripe carpels oblong, sub-terete, narrowed to the stalk, 2 to 25 

 in. long and in. diam. : pericarp fleshy. Seeds 1 to 4 : stalks thick, - 3 

 in. long. 



Penang ; on Government Hill at 600 feet : Cui-tis Nos. 857 and 880. 



11. Xylopia Scoetechinii, King n. sp. A tree 50 to 60 feet high: 

 young branches rusty-tomentose, ultimately glabrous, much striate and 

 pale brown. L--arr* eoriaeeous, obovate-elliptic to elliptic-oblong, very 

 shortly and abruptly acuminate, slightly narrowed to the sub-cuneate 

 rounded slightly oblique base : upper surface glabrous, the midrib 

 slightly ruious-puberulous near the base : lower surface pale, sparsely 

 rufous-pubescent especially on the midrib and 10 to 14 pairs of oblique, 

 rather straight, prominently raised main nerves ; length 4 to 7 in., 

 breadth 175 to 4 in. ; petiole "35 in., pubescent. Flowers rarely solitary, 

 usually in fascicles of 2 to 5 on tubercles in the axils of leaves or of 

 fallen leaves; pedicels short, (2 to 25 in.), stoat, rusty-tomentose with 

 a sub-mesial bracteole. Sepals quite free, broadly ovate, blunt, pubes- 

 cent outside, glabrous inside. Petals thickened, linear-obtuse with an 

 orbicular concave claw, vaulted over the stamens and pistils, 1'25 to 175 

 in. loner, pubescent everywhere except on the glabrous concavity of the 

 claw. Stamens numerous, with truncate 4- or 5- angled apices concealing 

 the lateral anthers. Ovaries few, short, oblonsr, pubescent, 4- or 5-ovuled ; 

 stigma large, oblong. Ripe carpels broadly ovoid, blunt, rufous-pubes- 



