1890.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 197 



2'5 to 3'5 in. ; petiole 1'25 to 1"5 in., slender. Cymes axillary, dicho- 

 tomous, spreading, rusty-tomentose, on slender ebracteate peduncles 1'5 

 in. long which lengthen to 3 in. in fruit. Flowers numerous, dioecious, 

 •5 in. in diam. ; pedicels "3 to "4 in. long. Sepals thick, ovate, blunt, 

 densely rusty-tomentose externally. Petals larger than the sepals, 

 membranous, oblong-obovate, blunt. Stamens in males very numerous, 

 glabrous ; the anthers broadly oblong, blunt, deeply cordate at the base ; 

 filaments slender. Ovary in the males absent or rudimentary, densely 

 pilose, and with several rudimentary styles. Female floivers unknown. 

 Fruit ovoid, "75 in. long, and '4 in. in diam., baccate, smooth, pulpy, sub- 

 tended by the persistent calyx and crowned by the remains of 15 to 20 

 filiform styles. Seeds numerous, shining, brown, less than "1 in. long, 

 ovoid, sub-compressed, pitted and with several longitudinal grooves. 

 Kadsura pubescens, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 620. 



Perak ; on trees, at elevations of 3,500 to 4000 feet, King's Collector, 

 Nos. 5437 and 8789. Distrib. Eastern Sumatra. 



I have carefully examined a type specimen of Mi quel's Kadsura 

 pubescens from Sumatra named by the author's own hand ; and there is 

 no doubt whatever that it is an Actiuidia and not a Kadsura ; nor is 

 there any that it is identical with the above quoted numbers of the 

 Calcutta collector from Perak. Miquel is quite wrong in describing his 

 plant as having 3 sepals and 6 petals ; there being 5 in each whorl. 



6. Saurauja, Willd. 



Trees or shrubs. Branches usually brown with whitish tubercular 

 dots, both branches and leaves more or less strigose-pilose or scaly when 

 young. Leaves approximate at the ends of the branches, usually serrate, 

 with parallel veins diverging from the midrib. Inflorescence lateral, 

 ofteu from the axils of fallen leaves, cymose, subpaniculate, rarely few- 

 flowered. Bracts usually small, remote from the calyx. Flowers usually 

 hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, strongly imbricate. Petals 5, usually connate 

 at the base. Stamens many ; anthers dehiscing by pores. Ovary 3-5- 

 celled ; styles as many, distinct or connate, rarely dry and sub-dehiscent. 

 Distrib. Tropical and sub-tropical Asia and America. Species about 

 60. 



1. Saurauja tristtla, DC. Mem. Ternstr. 31, t. 7. A shrub or tree 

 2 to 3 feet high ; young branches with grey, faintly striate bark, decidu- 

 ously scurfy and strigose towards the apices. Leaves membranous, oblan- 

 ceolate, abruptly and shortly acuminate, minutely and remotely serrulate 

 or sub-entire, the base acute ; both surfaces glabrous, except the midrib 

 and main nerves which have a few scale-like hairs, the lower pale brown 

 when dry ; nerves 10 to 12 pairs, erecto-patent, rather prominent be- 



