1890.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 199 



bescent ovary, sub-globular seeds, and in its often having 5 styles. There 

 may be two species covered by the foregoing description : but I cannot 

 find a constant character to separate them. I believe this to be Blume's 

 »S. Noronhiana and Be Candolle's S. nudiflora : but, not having been able 

 to consult any authentic specimen of the former and only moderately good 

 ones of the latter, I am not quite satisfied of the identity with them of 

 this common Perak tree. The genus Saurauja is a very puzzling one. 

 The species come very close together, and Miquel's descriptions of the 

 numerous species which he named are so incomplete that it is almost 

 impossible to recognise them with any certainty. 



3. Saurauja cauliflora, Bl. Bijdr. 128, var. calycina, King. A 

 tree : young branches and petioles densely covered with long paleaceous 

 yellowish hairs. Leaves elliptic-oblong, shortly and sharply acuminate, 

 the edges faintly aristate-serrate, the base acute ; upper surface gla- 

 brous ; lower pale brown when dry, strigose on the midrib nerves and 

 veins ; main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, spreading, prominent beneath ; length 

 6 to 9 in., breadth 2'25 to 2 - 75 in., petiole about 1 in. Floivers "4 in. in 

 diam., on long pedicels, crowded in large fascicles from flat tubercles on 

 the larger branches and stem ; pedicels from "75 to 1'5 in. long, tomen- 

 tose-squamulose, rufous. Sepals rotund, the outer densely tomentose- 

 squamulose ; the inner almost glabrous, veined. Petals obovate-oblong, 

 blunt, united in their lower third, membranous, nerved, scarcely so large 

 as the sepals. Stamens about 25, adherent to the corolla, elongate-ovate, 

 adnate, dehiscing by two large apical pores. Ovary scaly, 3-celled, multi- 

 ovulate. Styles 3, united by their bases only. Fruit enveloped by the 

 slightly accrescent calyx, sub-glabrous, 3-celled. Seeds small, ovate- 

 rotund, compressed, foveolate, pale brown. DO. Mem. Soc. Geneve I, 

 425; Korth. Verb.. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 126; Hassk. PI. Jav. Ear. 273 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. ii, p. 486. Ann. Mus. Ludg. Bat. IV, 106. 

 Perak : Batu Kurau. Scortechini, No. 1614. 



This differs in no respect from the plant described by Blume, of 

 which I have seen good specimens, except in its larger sepals which are 

 densely tomentose-squamulose externally. 



7. Ptrenaria, Blume. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves serrate, large and sub-membranous. Flowers 

 sub-sessile, axillary, erect or nodding. Sepals usually 5, unequal, gra- 

 duating from the bracts to the petals. Petals connate at the base. 

 Stamens very numerous, mostly connate, adnate to the base of the petals. 

 Ovary 5-celled ; styles 5, free, or partially united ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 attached laterally. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent. Seeds oblong, stout, 

 with a thick woody testa, wingless ; albumen ; cotyledons large, crum- 



