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



E. acuminata, Royle 111. 127, t. 25. E. salicifolia, Blume Mus. Bot. II, 

 118. E. chinensis, Hook. f. and Thorns. Herb. Ind. Or. (not of 

 Brown). 



Var. 2. Wallichiana, Steud. in Blume Mus. Bot. ii, 118 (sp.); 

 styles united. E. lucida, Wall. Cat. 1462. E. fasciculata, Ham. in 

 Wall. Oat. 1463. E. acuminata, Wall. Cat. 1464. E. bifaria, Wall. 

 Cat. 3721 ? E. membranacea, Gardn. in. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist, vii, 

 444. E. japonica, /3 acuminata, Thw. Enum. PI. Cey. 41. 



2. Eurta Wkati, King, n. sp. A small tree : young tranches 

 slender, purplish-brown, laxly pubescent towards the apex. Leaves drying 

 greenish-yellow, thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, bluntly acuminate, 

 minutely serrulate, the base rounded : upper surface glabrous, shining ; 

 lower paler, dull, sparsely pubescent ; length 2 to 2"75 in., breadth - 5 to 

 *7 in., petiole '1 in. Floivers narrowly ovate, pointed, scarcely expand- 

 ing', '1 in. in diam. and "2 in. long, axillary, solitary or in 2 to 6-flowered 

 sessile umbels, quite glabrous : pedicels slender, glabrous, 1" to *15 in. 

 long, bi-bracteolate. Sepals unequal, erect, fleshy, ovate, acute, much 

 imbricate. Petals sub-equal, erect, membranous, ovate, acute, connate 

 in the lower third. Stamens 15, glabrous ; anthers narrow, elongate, 

 shortly apiculate ; filaments short. Ovary ovoid, gradually narrowing 

 into the thick style, imperfectly 3-celled ; stigmas short. Fruit un- 

 known. 



Perak ; at Tapa, Wray. 



Distinguished by its narrowly ovate pointed flower-buds and flowers, 

 and by the rounded bases of its leaves. 



4. Actinidia, Lindl. 



Glabrous, sti-igose, or tomentose shrubs ; usually climbers. Leaves 

 entire or serrate, usually membranous, feather- veined. Flowers polyga- 

 mous or dioecious, in axillary cymes, rarely solitary. Sepals 5, slightly 

 imbricate, subconnate at the base. Petals 5, somewhat contorted-im- 

 bricate. Stamens many ; anthers dehiscing by slits. Ovary many- 

 celled ; the styles as numerous, divergent and elongated after noweriuo-. 

 Fruit baccate. Distrib. Himalaya, China and Japan ; species about 8. 



1. Actinidia Miquelii, King, n. sp. Slender, scandent, 30 to 60 feet 

 long : young branches cylindric, striate, glabrous, dark-coloured. Leaves 

 membranous, ovate-acuminate to sub-rotund, mucronate, minutely glan- 

 dulai'-dentate, the base rounded or slightly cordate; upper surface 

 glabrous, rigid, the nerves and midrib minutely pubescent : lower sur- 

 face pale brown when dry, minutely but densely tomentose; nerves 

 about 5 pairs, the lower spreading, the upper sub-erect, prominent be- 

 neath as are the midrib and transverse veins ; length 3 to 4 in., breadth 



