368 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 4, 



Perak. Father Scortecliiui. 



Mipe fruit is unknown and it is possible that the seeds may bo 

 arillate. It has, however, the faoies of a Billenia rather than of a Wor- 

 mia. In leaf this resembles B. eximia, Miq., but that plant has broader 

 leaves much more narrowed to the base. It also resembles D. gmndi- 

 folia, Wall., but is distinguished by its closer nerves and remarkable 

 areolar reticulations. 



Species imperfectly known. 



5. D. GRANDIFOLIA, Wall. Leaves oblong-lanccolate, acute, serrate, 

 softly hairy above, tomentose beueatli ; nerves about 40 to 50 pairs, tians- 

 Toi'so : length of blade 24 in., breadth 9 in. ; petioles stout, 5 to 6 in. long, 

 densely tomentose as is the midrib. H. f. & Th. ¥\. lud. I, 71 ; Hook, 

 fll. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 38. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. ii, 12. 



Penang and Malacca. 



Known only by a few imperfect specimens in Herb. Wallich. 

 D. eximia, Miq., from Sumatra, is a species also known only by a few 

 leaf specimens which I have examined. The two differ as above described 

 and may belong to Wormia. 



Order III. MAGNOLTACEyE. 

 Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing, often aromatic, wood-tissue 

 with glandular markings. Leaves alternate, quite entire or toothed, 

 stipulate or not. Floivers axillary and terminal, often showy, white, 

 yellow or red, sometimes unisexual. Sepals and petals very deciduous, 

 hypogynous, arranged in whorls of 3. Stamens indefinite, hypogynous, 

 filaments flattened or terete, free or monadelphous ; anthers basifixed, ad- 

 nate cells bursting longitudinally. Carpels indefinite, free or partly 

 cohering in one whorl, or in several on an elongate axis ; styles short or 

 rarel}' long, stigmatose on the inner surface ; ovules 2 or more, on the 

 ventral suture, anatropous or amphitropous. Fruit baccate, or follicular, 

 or of woody dehiscent carpels, which are sometimes arranged in a cone. 

 Seeds solitary or few, sometimes pendulous from a long funicle, testa 

 single and crustaceous, or double, the outer fleshy ; albumen granular or 

 fleshy and oily ; embryo minute, cotyledons spreading, radicle short, 

 blunt, next the hilum. — Distrib. Chiefly natives of the tropical and 

 temperate Asiatic mountains and United States, a few are Australian ; 

 species about 80. 



Tribe I. Magnolia}. Flowers bisexual. Erect shrubs or trees. iSVi- 

 'pules conspicuous, convolute and embracing the leaf-buds, deciduous. 

 Carpels on an elongated axis. 



Carpels not separating from the carpophore ; 

 dehiscing dorsally. 



