142 G King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 2, 



In leaf characters this comes near to the Sumatran X. vitellinum, 

 Blume : but the two differ in flower and fruit. 



17. Xanthophtllum affine, Korth. in Miq. Ann. Lugd. Bat. I, 

 271. A shrub or tree; young branches glabrous, pale brown. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous (drying of a more or less yellowish pale green, especial- 

 ly beneath), elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, 

 the base cuneate : upper surface smooth, shining, lower dull pale and 

 yellowish ; main nerves 5 to 8 pairs, ascending, prominent beneath ; 

 length 4 to 7 in., breadth 1'8 to 2'5 in., petiole 3 to '4 in. Floivers 

 •35 in. long, the pedicels nearly as long. Panicles axillary or 

 terminal, few-branched, minutely tomentose, the axillary half as 

 long, the terminal as long as, the leaves. Sepals un-equal, ovate- 

 rotund to rotund, blunt, tomentose externally. Petals oblong, ob- 

 tuse, pubescent near the base or wholly glabrous, the keel al- 

 ways pubescent. Filaments flat, puberulous. Ovary shortly stipitate, 

 glabrous, from 8 to 14-ovuled. Style short, flat, pubescent. Pise 

 annular, fleshy, glabrous, often wavy. Fruit globose, "5 to 1*25 in. in 

 diam., smooth ; pericarp thin, crustaceous. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 209. 



In all the provinces ; common. Distrib. Malayan Archipelago 

 generally. Tenasserim. 



This occurs as a bush and also as a tree. It varies a little as to 

 colour and shape of leaves, and as to the pubescence on the petals. But, 

 when its commonness is considererd, its characters are really remarkably 

 constant, that of the size of the individual alone excepted. 



18. Xanthophyllum bullatum, King, n. sp. A shrub or small tree 

 with large, sub-sessile leaves ; young branches robust, pale, puberulous, 

 lenticellate. Leaves coriaceous, drying a pale greenish-yellow, elliptic- 

 oblong, sub-obovate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the edges sub- 

 recurved ; slightly narrowed to the cordate, sub-auriculate, slightly 

 unequal base ; bullate, especially in the lower half, shining and glabrous on 

 both surfaces, the lower a little paler; main nerves 18 to 2?, bold on 

 lower surface and sometimes puberulous as in the strong midrib ; length 

 11 to 18 in., breadth 4 to 65 in.; petiole - 25 in., very stout, glandular. 

 Flowers '4 in. long, the pedicels twice as long as the calyx. Panicles ter- 

 minal, many-branched, spreading, pubescent ; bracts deciduous, ovate. 

 Sepals unequal, rotund, fleshy, concave, tomentose, the edges of the 

 inner two thin and ciliate. Petals ovate-rotund, glabrous, not much 

 larger than the sepals. Filaments flat, fleshy, glabrous. Ovary glabrous, 

 ovoid, 8-ovuled, surrounded by a glabrous fleshy annular wavy disc ; 

 style glabrous ; stigma conical, pubescent. Fruit globose, glabrous, 

 •75 in. in diam, (? ripe;) pericarp thick, crustaceous. 



