1890.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 129 



Pittospobum perbugineum, Ait. DC. Prod. I, 346. A tree 40 to 60 

 feet high. Young branches leaves and inflorescence softly ferrugi- 

 nous-pubescent. Leaves membranous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate at base and apex, the edges minutely undulate ; when 

 adult glabrous except the midrib and larger nerves ; upper surface shin- 

 ing, the lower dull with the minute reticulations distinct ; nerves 7 to 8 

 pairs, not prominent, spreadiDg ; length 2 to 3 in., breadth 1 to 1"5 in. ; 

 petiole slender, rusty-tomentose, '5 in. long. Flowers, *25 in. long, green- 

 ish-white, in short terminal corymbs. Sepals lanceolate, pubescent. 

 Petals linear, the apices reflexed, pubescent, 3-nerved. Ovary cylindric, 

 rusty-tomentose ; style short, glabrous, excentric ; capsule globose, when 

 ripe compressed, rugose, with 6 to 8 black flat seeds. Hook fil. PI. Br. 

 Ind. i., 199. Putterl. Monogr. Pittosp. 7. Bentk PI. Austral, i. 112. 

 Bot. Mag. 2075. 



At elevations of from 800 to 1500 feet; common. Distrib. Burmah., 

 the Malayan Archipelago, Philippines, Queensland. 



There is some variability in leaf in different individuals of this 

 species, some having leaves narrowly lanceolate, others ovate-lanceolate. 



Okder XI. POLYGALE^E. 



Annual or perennial herbs, erect or scandent shrubs, or timber 

 trees. Leaves alternate (rarely whorled) or occasionally reduced to 

 scales or 0, simple, quite entire. Stipules 0. Flowers irregular, 2-sexual, 

 3-bracteate. Sepals 5, unequal, 2 inner often petaloid (wing sepals), 

 deciduous or persistent, imbricate in bud. Petals 5 or 3, distinct, un- 

 equal, the inferior usually keel-shaped. Stamens 8 (in Salomonia 4-5, 

 in Trigoniastrum5)hypogynous, filaments united into a sheath, more rarely 

 distinct ; anthers opening by terminal pores, rarely by slits. Ovary free, 

 1-3-celled ; style generally curved, stigma capitate ; ovules 1 or more 

 in each cell, anatropous. Fruit generally a 2-celled, 2-seeded, loculici- 

 dal capsule ; or indehiscent and 1-seeded, or (in Trigoniastrum) of 3 

 indehiscent carpels. Seed usually strophiolate, albnminous, rarely exal- 

 buminous. Distrib. The whole world except New Zealand, chiefly in 

 warm regions ; genera 16 ; species 450 — 500. 



Herbs or (more rarely) erect shrubs. Capsule loculicidal, 2-celled. 

 Stamens 8, united; 2 interior sepals alasform 1. Polygala. 

 Stamens 4-5, united ; sepals petaloid, near- 

 ly equal ... ... ... 2. Salomonia. 



Climbing shrubs. 



Stamens 8, united ; fruit 1-celled, inde- 

 hiscent, samaroid ... ... 3. Securidaca. 



