1890.] G.King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 183 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 3301, 6850 : Penang, Curtis, No. 

 1419; Malacca, Maingay, No. 176. 



This is allied to K. nervosa, T. Anders. ; but it is readily distinguished 

 from that by its smooth branchlets, by the leaves much and gradually 

 narrowed to both base and apex, and by the oblong-acuminate petals. A 

 shrubby form of this occurs in Penang (Curtis, Nos. 805, 1418,) and in 

 Perak (King's Collector, No. 1345) in which all the parts are smaller 

 and the leaves are less acuminate at the apex, and rounded instead of 

 much attenuated at the base. 



5. Kayea nervosa, T. Anders, in Hook. fil. FL, Br. Ind. i, 277. A 

 glabrous tree ; the branchlets minutely tubercled, 4-angled. Leaves sub- 

 sessile, membranous, elliptic-oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the 

 base rounded or emarginate ; both surfaces (when dry) dull coppery brown, 

 the lower paler ; nerves 16 to 20, unequal, rather prominent beneath ; 

 length 3 to '5 in., breadth P25 in. to 2 in. ; petiole '15 in. long, rugose 

 as is the base of the midrib. Floivers axillary, usually solitary (some- 

 times 2 or 3 from an axil), or terminal, 1'75 in. in diam. ; pedicels '75 in. 

 or less, tubercled, each with several linear lanceolate bracts at its base. 

 Sepals unequal, the outer very coriaceous, sub-orbicular ; the inner nearly 

 twice as large but thinner. Petals obovate ; filaments about as long as 

 the slender pistil. Ripe fruit sub-globular, beaked, leathery, '75 in. in 

 diam. or more, the calyx marcescent. Kurz Flora Burm. i, 96 ; Mesua 

 nervosa, PI. and Triana Mem. Guttif. 279. 



Malacca, Perak. Distrib. Burmah. 



6. Kayea caudata, King, n. sp. A slender glabrous tree, 20 to 30 

 feet high, with drooping habit ; the branchlets slender, pale brown, striate. 

 Leaves membranous, obovate-elliptic, caudate-acuminate, mueronulate, 

 edges undulate, slightly narrowed to the rounded base ; both surfaces dull, 

 the lower pale ; nerves 12 to 14 pairs, prominent, sub-horizontal ; length 

 3 to 3'5 in. of which the acumen froms '7 in. ; breadth 1 to 1*15 in., petiole 

 •15 in. Flowers unknown. Fruit solitary, terminal, shortly pedicellate, 

 narrowly ovoid-cylindric, tapering very much to the apex and often 

 curved, less narrowed to the base, 2 to 2'5 in. long, and 1 to 1'25 in. 

 in diam. at the middle ; bracts at base of pedicel subulate, 1-nerved. 

 Sepals persistent, the outer pair orbicular, the inner oblong : pedicel 

 about '2 in. long, rather shorter than the subulate bracts. 



Perak ; King's Collector, No. 7937. 



Only once collected and only in fruit. Easily recognisable by its 

 caudate-acuminate leaves and fruit. 



7. Kayea elegans, King, n. sp. A glabrous tree 40 to 60 feet high, 

 with slender drooping branches ; branchlets very thin, pale gray. Leaves 

 thinly but rigidly coriaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, the base acute, the 



