1889.] Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of Ihe Malayan Peninsula. 363 



few-flowered. Follicles several-seeded. DC. Prod. I, 68: Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ii, 646 ; H. f. et Th. Fl. Ind. i, 63 ; Hook. fil. M. Br. Ind. I, 32 : 

 Miq. Fl. lud. IBat. Vol. I, pt. ii, 8. T. lucida, Wall. Cat. 



Straits Settlements, at low elevations. Distrib. Moluccas and New 

 Caledonia. 



3. T. MACROPHYLLA, Wall. Cat. 6628. Young branches pubescent. 

 Leaves broadly elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 5 to 7 in. long, margin sub-sin- 

 uate, scabrid on botb surfaces. Panicle terminal, longer than the leaves, 

 many-flowered. Sepals rotund, not ribbed. Follicles 1-seeded. Hook, 

 fil. et, Th. Fl. Ind. I, C3 : Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 32 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. Yol. 1, pt. ii, 8. 



Straits Settlements, in tropical forests. Distrib. Sumatra. 



4. T. GRANDIS, King, n. sp. A large tree. Young branches and 

 infloresoenco shortly velvety-tomentose. Leaves large, coriaceous, broad- 

 ly elliptic, rarely slightly obovate, the apes truncate and minutely 

 apicnlate ; the edges obscurely crenate or undulate toward the apex, 

 entire below, recurved when dry ; the base rounded or slightly narrowed : 

 upper surface scabrous, lower minutely tomentose : nerves stout, 14 

 pau-s, straight, erocto-patent ; length of blade 8 to 10 in., width 5 to 5 in., 

 petiole about 5 in., stout. Inflorescence in little-branched, lateral or ter- 

 minal panicles a foot or more long. Flowers shortly pedunculate. 

 Sepals 5, broadly ovate, sub-acute, concave, ril)bed and tomentose exter- 

 nally, 5 in. long. Petals about as long as the sepals but narrower, 

 glabrous. Anthers truncate, narrowed to the long slender filaments. 

 Follicles with a slender curved beak. 



Perak. Soortechini, No. 906. 



Said by Father Soortechini to be a very large tree. 



3. AcEOTREMA, Jack. 



Perennial stemless herbs with woody rhizomes. Leaves large, par- 

 rallel-nerved, with sheathing deciduous stipules. Scape short axillary, 

 bracteolate. Flowers large, yellow. Sepals 5. Petals 6. Stamens nu- 

 mci'ous, in 3 bundles which alternate with the carpels ; filaments filiform, 

 anthers erect, with longitudinal porous dehiscence. Carpels 3, slightly co- 

 hering : styles subulate, recurved ; ovules 2 or more. Fndt of 3 irregu- 

 larly dehiscing follicles. Seed with a membranous aril ; the testa orus- 

 taceous, pitted.— Distrib. ten species, of which 8 are endemic in Ceylon, 

 1 Peninsular- Indian, and 1 Indo-Malayan. 



A. cosTATUM, Jack in Mai. Misc. ex. Hook. Misc. ii, 82. Whole 

 plant covered with stiff rufous or golden hairs, especially when young. 

 Leaves obovate, the margins dentate-ciliate ; the base narrowed, sagittate; 

 upper sm'face strigose, often blotched with white, petiole short. Sacemes 



