1889.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malagan Feninsnla, 3G5 



Sect. II. Emvormia. Filaments all erect and neai-ly equal in 

 length. 



3. W. PULCHELLA, Jaok. Mai. Misc. ex. Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. I, 

 221. A slirub. Toting parts glabrous. Leaves on sliort narrowly winged 

 petioles, obovate or obovato-oblong, obtuse, entire, truncate or retuse, 

 sometimes mucronate, tbickly coriaceous, glabrous ; nerves 6 to 7 pairs ; 

 length of blade 2'5 to 4 in., breadth 1'5 to 2'o in. ; petiole '75 in. Flowers 

 solitary or in small cymes, axillary or terminal, 2 in. in diam. ; pedicels 2 

 in. long. Sepals broadly ovate, glabrous. Petals ovate. Carpels about 

 5. Seeds few, with pulpy arillus. H. f. and Th. Fl. Ind. I, 68 : Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 36 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, Ft. ii, p. 11. 



Perak and Malacca ; at elevations under 1,000 ft. Distrib. Su- 

 matra. 



4. W. MELiosMiEFOLiA, King, n. sp. A small tree, the young parts 

 and leaf-potioles softly fulvous-tomentose. Leaves crowded near the 

 apices of the branches, coriaceous, obovate-lanoeolate to obovate-elliptic, 

 acute or acuminate, entire or minutely and remotely serrate, base 

 acute, glabrous above except the 14 to 18 pairs of spreading pubescent 

 nerves, under surface minutely tomentose ; length of blade 5 to 8 in,, 

 breadth 3 to 4 in., petiole about 1 in. Flowers about 3 in. in diam., 

 axillary, solitary, on slender tomentose peduncles 2 in. long, or in few- 

 flowered linear-bracteolate cymes ; peduncles 1 in. long. Sepals ovate- 

 oblong, velvety-tomentose externally, glabrous internally. Petals ob- 

 lauceolate, pale yellow, veined, wavy. St igmas about 12, linear, recurved. 

 Follicles with several compressed, arillate seeds. Billenia meliosmae- 

 folia, Hook. fll. & Th. Fl. Br, Ind. I, 3G. 



Malacca, Perak. 



Originally described as a Dillenia by Sir Joseph Hooker who had 

 not seen the fruit. 



5. W. ScOBTECHiNii, King, n. sp. A tree 60 to 70 feet. Branchlets 

 thick, scarred, puberulous or glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, obovate-ob- 

 long, shortly acuminate, undulate-crenate, narrowed to the petiole : upper 

 surface shining, glabrous except the midrib and nerves which are minute- 

 ly pubescent as is the under surface : nerves prominent on the under 

 surface, 26-30 pairs each ending on the margin of the leaf in a tuft of 

 hairs ; length of blade 4 to 6-5 in., breadth 2 to 3 ; petiole "5 to 2 in., winged 

 and expanded at the base. Oymes supra-axillary, sub-terminal, dicho- 

 tomous, pubescent ; bracteoles oblong, "3 in. long ; pedicels -25 in. long- 

 Flowers when expanded about 1 in. broad, Sepals 5, puberulous 

 externally, broadly ovate, coriaceous. Petals 0. Anthers equal in 

 length to the filaments, slightly hairy. Ovaries 3 to 5, usually 4. Eipe 

 fruit unknown. 



