1890.] Gr. King — Materials' for a Floret of 'the Malayan 'Peninsula 181 



Fruit turbinate, quite enveloped by 



the outer sepals when ripe ... 3. K. grandis. 

 Fruit ovoid, pointed, only partly 

 covered by sepals. 

 Leaves tapering to the mo- 

 derately long petiole ... 4. K. Kunsileri. 

 Leaves rounded or cordate at 



base, sub-sessile ... 5. K. nervosa. 



Fruit ovoid with a much elongate 

 hooked apex, leaves caudate - 

 acuminate ... ... 6. K. caudata. 



Nervation of leaves indistinct. 



Young branches slender, smooth, 



flowers axillary ... ... 7. K. elegans. 



1. Kayba Wrayi, King, n. sp. A small glabrous tree; the young- 

 branches pale, polished, terete, often whorled. Leaves very thickly coria- 

 ceous, broadly elliptic, acute or acuminate, the edges much recurved when 

 dry, the base rounded; nerves about 15 pairs, unequal, only slightly 

 prominent on the lower and less so on the upper surface ; both surfaces 

 smooth, ihe upper shining, the lower dull ; length 3 to 4'5 in., breadth 

 1/5 to 2"25 in. ; petiole '4 in., thick. Racemes axillary or terminal, 2 to 

 3 in. long, sub-erect, stout, with minute subulate bracts at the base, 3 to 

 5-flowered. Floiuers 1 to 1'25 in. in diam., pedicels '5 to 1'25 in. long. 

 Sepals orbicular, nearly equal, glabrous, the outer pair coriaceous, the 

 inner thinner. Petals much larger than the sepals, broadly-obovate or 

 orbicular, clawed. Stamens much shorter than the petals. Fruit un- 

 known. 



Pahang ; on Gunong Brumber, elevation 7000 feet, L, Wray, junior. 

 A remarkable species quite unlike any hitherto described. 



2. Katea racemosa, Planch, and Triana Mem. Guttif. 269. A 

 glabrous tree, 40 to 60 feet high. Leaves sub-coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, 

 with a very short blunt acumen, slightly narrowed to the petiole ; upper 

 surface rather dull, the lower paler and shining ; main nerves 18 to 25 

 pairs, bold, spreading; length 6 to 9 in., breadth 15 to 2 - 5 in. ; petiole 

 •75 in., stout. Racemes less than 1 in. long, few-flowered, bracteolate, 

 crowded at the apices, or in the axils near the apices, of the rather lono- 

 naked often whorled branchlets ; pedicels stout, - 15 in. long. Flowers 

 •5 in. in diam. Sepals rotund, thickly coriaceous. Petals longer than 

 the sepals, thin. Stamens numerous, in one series, monodelphous at the 

 base ; Wall. Cat. without number or locality ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 

 276, (excl. syn. Mesua Singaporiana, Wall. Cat. 4836.) 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 177). Perak ; Scortechiui, 97. 



