1892.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. 129 



1. Mezzettia leptopoda, Oliver in Hook. Ic. PL t. 1560. A tree : 

 young branches dark-coloured, glabrous, striate, rather stout. Leaves 

 coriaceous, oblong or narrowly elliptic, obtusely acuminate or acute ; 

 the base rounded or acute ; upper surface glabrous, shining ; the lower 

 dull, obscurely reticulate ; main nervf s 8 or 9 pairs, forming wide arches 

 far from the margin, very faint ; length 2 - 5 to 4 in., breadth 1 to l - 75 

 in , petiole "35 in. Flowers '5 in. long, on long slender pedicels in axil- 

 lary fascicles of 2 to 6 ; pedicels "5 to "75 in., pubescent : bracteolas 

 minute. Sepals broadly ovate, connate at the base, tomentose, reflexed. 

 Petals tomentose, on both surfaces ; the outer linear, obtuse, "2 in, long ; 

 the inner shorter and broader. Ovary ovoid. Ripe carpels unknown, 

 Lonchomera leptopoda, H. f. and Th. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 94. 



Malacca : Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 102. 



This plant is very imperfectly known. The carpels associated with 

 Maingay's specimens do not agree with his description of them (Fl. Br. 

 Ind. I, 94) and they are evidently those of some species of Polyalthia. 



2. Mezzettia Herveyana, Oliver Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 1560. A tree ; 

 young branches rather stout, nodose, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, ellip- 

 tic-oblong, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate, both surfaces glabrous, 

 the upper shiniug ; main nerves about 10 pairs, spreading, inter-arching 

 within the margin, faint; length 2 - 5 to 3 in., breadth 1 to T25 in., 

 petiole '25 to '35 in. Floivers "4 in. h>ng, rather crowded, in sessile axillary 

 or extra- axillary fascicles of 3 to 8 : pedicels '3 in. long, puberulous, 

 ebracteolate. Sepals broadly ovate, obtuse, connate at the base, pubes- 

 cent like the petals. Outer petals ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, flat, the inner 

 smaller, broadly elliptic, obtuse, the tips incurved. Anthers sessile, 

 obovate- quadrate, about 12. Ovary oblong, tapering into the style : 

 ovules 2, superposed. Pipe carpels unknown. 



Malacca : H ervey . 



3. Mezzettia Cuetisii, Kingn. sp. A tree, 30 to 40 feet high : young 

 branches cinereous, rugose. Leaves thinly coi'iaceous, oblong-lanceolate 

 or oblong, more or less acuminate, the base acute ; both surfaces gla- 

 brous ; the upper shining, the lower dull ; main nerves about 10 pairs, 

 spreading, faint ; length 25 to 5 in., breadth 5 to 1*5 in., petiole "25 in. 

 Floivers '25 in. long, in crowded, sessile, axillary or extra-axillary fascicles 

 of 5 to 10 ; pedicels slender, ebracteolate, scm-fily pubescent, "35 to - 6 

 in. long. Sepals semi-orbicular, with reflexed tips, connate and forming 

 a spreading, shallow cup, densely and minutely tomentose. Outer petals 

 ligulate, acute, tomentose like the sepals but with a glabrous patch at 

 the base inside. Inner petals like the outer, but less acute and one- third 

 shorter. Stamens about 12, short, about as broad as long, the connec- 

 tive very broad, truncate at the apex. Ovary solitary, broadly oroid ; 



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