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



Perak, at elevations of 500 to 1000 feet, King's Collector. 



3. Gordonia MainCxAyi, Dyer in Hook. fll. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 291. A 

 tree 30 to 40 feet high : young brandies slender, with glabrous pale 

 rougliish bark, pubescent towards the apices. Leaves coriaceous, broad- 

 ly oblanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, obscurely serrulate in 

 the upper two-thirds, the lower third gradually attenuate, entire: both 

 surfaces glabrous, the upper greenish, the lower brownish when dry, the 

 midrib bold and sparsely pubescent beneath ; lateral nerves 6 pairs, indis- 

 tinct ; length 2'5 to 3 in., breadth 1 to 1'4 in., petiole "25 in. Flowers 

 sub-sessile, "8 to 1 in. in diam., buds sub-globular; bjacts, sepals and 

 petals forming a cone, all adpressed-seviceous externally except the 

 glabrous edges : pedicels about - 15 in. long. Sepals and petals orbicu- 

 lar, blunt or refuse. Stamens numerous; anthers elongate-ovoid; 

 filaments much longer, slender. Ovary ovoid-conic, vertically ridged, 

 adpressed-sericeous, 4 or 5-celled. Style single, angled. Stigmas 4 or 

 5, acute, connivent. Capsules 4 to 5-angled, woody, 1 to 1*25 long, '5 

 to "6 in diam., 4 or 5-celled, backs of valves flat. Seeds - 9 in. long of 

 which thre. fourths are wing. 



Malacca; Maingay, No. 192. Perak, Scortechini, Wray ; at about 

 1000 feet. 



4. Gordonia Scortechinii, King, n. sp. A tree ; young, branches 

 slender, dark brown, glabrous, the apices and leaf- buds minutely puberu- 

 lous. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, blunt, or sub-emarginate, 

 slightly narrowed to the sub-acute or rounded base ; both surfaces gla- 

 brous, the lower dull, pale ; the upper shining, green when dry ; midrib 

 bold ; nerves about 8 pairs, faint on the upper, invisible on the lower 

 surface ; length 2 to 3 in., breadth '8 to 1'4 in., petiole "25 in. Flowers 

 - 6 in. in diam., solitary, axillary, only towards the apices of the branches, 

 on very short curved pubescent peduncles. Buds ovoid. Sepals orbi- 

 cular, fleshy, unequal, pubescent externally. Petals twice as large as 

 the sepals, membranous, puberulous externally. Stamens few, (only 

 about 30) ; anthers broadly ovate, about a fourth as long as the flattened 

 filaments. Ovary narrowly ovoid, pubescent, 3-celled. Styles 3, thick, 

 shorter than the ovary, pubescent ; stigmas on the inner surface only, 

 slightly spreading. Fruit unknown. 



Perak ; Scortechini, No. 3626. 



This has a superficial resemblance to G. Maingayii, to which the 

 late Father Scortechini referred it. But it has smaller flowers with 

 fewer stamens, and very different ovary and styles; the leaves moreover 

 are thicker than those of G. Maingayii, and are not oblanceolate. 



5. Gordonia imbricata, King, n. sp. A tree ? Young branches 

 rather stout, glabrous, dark purplish-brown when dry. Leaves coria- 



