I id G. King — Materials for a Mora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 2 r 



secondaiy nerves and minute reticulations distinct ; length 9 to 14 in., 

 breadth 2"5 to 3 - 25 in., petiole '75 to I in. Flowers '4 in. long-, their 

 pedicels longer than the calyx. Panicles axillary, fow-bvanched, 3 to 

 G in. long. Sepals nearly equal, broadly ovate, fleshy with thin edges, 

 puberulous. Petals oblong, obtuse, glabrescent, the keel pubescont. 

 Filaments Hat, puberulous. Ovary surrounded by a shallow glabrous 

 wavy disk, ovoid, minutely tomontose, grooved, 4-ovulod ; stylo pubes- 

 cont, slightly curved. Fruit globose with a conical apox, deeply rugose, 

 vorrucoso ; diam., "35 in. (young). 



Pcrak, King's Collector; Nos. 10G14 and 10804. 



Ripe fruit oC this is unknown. This species, in leaf characters, 

 approaches the Bornean X. cordatum,_ Korth. ; but the fruit of that is 

 .smooth ; of this the fruit is deeply corrugated-rugose as in X. Palem- 

 banicum and eurhynchum. 



12. XANTUOrYiiTiUM stipitatcm, A. W. Bonn, in Hook. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 1.210. A tree with slonder, smooth, brown branches. Leaves sub- 

 coriaceous, ovato or elliptic, shortly and obtusely caudate-acuminate ; 

 upper surface dull, the nerves obsolete ; lower shining, the 3 to 4 pairs 

 of nerves indistinct ; length P75 to 2"25 in., breadth -75 to 1 in., petiole 

 '15 in. Racemes slonder, axillary, longer than the leaves, pubescont. 

 Flowers - 4 iu long, shorter than their slender pedicels. Sepals sub- 

 equal, oblong, obtuse, glabrescent. Petals twice as long as sepals, 

 spathulate, oblong. Filaments thickened and hairy in their lowor 

 half. Ovary stipitato, cottony ; stylo sparsoly hairy ; ovules 8 to 10. 



Malacca. 



Hitherto known only by specimens from Malacca ; fruit not col- 

 lected. 



13. XANTnornvLLUM Scoetechinit, King, n. sp. A tall glabrous 

 tree. Leaves thinly coriaceous, drying brown, ovate, obtusely acuminate, 

 the baso slightly cuncato, shining on both surfaces ; nerves 3 pairs, sub- 

 erect, not prominent; length 2 to 2'25 in., breadth 1 in., petiole "35 in. 

 Flowers handsome, "G in. long, their pedicels '35 iu. liacemes axillary, 

 solitary, 2 in. long, few-flowered. Sepals fleshy, glabrous with ciliolato 

 edges ; the thrco outer ovate blunt, the two inner rotund. Petals broad- 

 ly obovate, clawed, glabrescent, the keel pubescent. Filaments as long 

 as the potals, flat, pubescent ; anthers short, ovate. Ovary shortly 

 stalked, olongatcd-ovoid, ridged, glabrous, 6-ovuled ; style little curved, 

 glabrous; stigma capitate: disc small, annular, glabrous. 



Perak, Father Scortechini, No. 2070. 



Of this distinct and handsome species fruit is as yet unknown. 



14. Xanthophtllum ellipticum, Korth. in Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. 

 Bat. I, 270. A glabrous tree 30 to (30 feet high; branehlets slender, 



