380 G. King—3Iaterials for a Flora of (he Malayan Peninsula. [No. 4, 



their junction with the petioles ; length of blade 4 to 5 in., breadth 3-5 to 

 4 in. ; petiole 3 to 3'5 in. slender, swollen and bent at the base. Ba- 

 cemes extra-axillary, slender, branched, 3 to 6 in. long. Male flmvers 

 sessile, 1 in. in diam., anthers 9. Female fl.oioor unknown ; ripe inflores- 

 cence stout, woody, a foot or more long : pedicel of ripe fruit much 

 thickened, clavate, rugose; ripe drupe transversely ovoid, sub-com- 

 pressed, l'2o long by nearly 15 broad; pericarp, thick, fibrous, pulpy; 

 endocarp woody, rugose. 



Malacca, Maingay No. 116, 115 (in part). Perak, common. Dis- 

 trib. Coohin-Ohina. 



An enormous climber, often with a stem 4 in. in diameter. The 

 leaves and male flowers are excellently figured by M. Pierre, who how- 

 ever does not appear to have seen the rijjo fruit. 



PiBRATJKEA, Loui'eiro. 



Glabrous climbing shrubs. Leaves ovate to oblong, 3-nerved. 

 Floivers in panicles. Sepals 6, with 3 minute bracts, inner larger. 

 Petals 0. Male flower : stamens 6, filaments clavate : anthers terminal, 

 adnate ; cells spreading, bursting vertically. Female flower : sf ami- 

 nodes 6. Ovaries 3, ovoid, 2-ovuled ; stigma sessile, punctiform. Drupes 

 1-seeded, oblong, terete, style-scar subterminal ; endocarp oblong, 

 dorsally convex, veutrally iiattened and channelled, hardly intruded. 

 Seed oblong, terete, reniform on a transverse section ; albumen copious, 

 horny ; cotyledons foliaceous, longitudinally curved, oblong, very thin ; 

 radicle short, cylindrio. 



1. P. CHLOKOLEUCA, Miers Contrib. iii, 42. Glabrous, the branches 

 striate ; bark of the young branches brown, of the old pale. Leaves 

 coriaceous, ovate-obloug, shortly acuminate ; the base rounded, 5-norvod 

 (2 of the nerves joining the central one half an inch above the base) ; vena- 

 tion inconspicuous ; length of blade 5 to 9 in., breadth 2'5 to 4 in. ; petiole 

 2 to 4 in., rather slender but swollen and curved towards the base. Pani- 

 cles extra-axillary, or from the stem below the leaves, slender, lax, their 

 branches hoi'izontal, 3 to 8 in. long. Male flowers 2 in. in diam., short- 

 ly pedicellate ; filaments clavate, flattened. Female flower unknown ; 

 the ripe female inflorescence slender, stouter than the leaf-petioles, 

 about 1 foot long. Mipe drupes on rather slender terete pedicels which 

 are capitate at the apex and '6 in. long, ovoid, smooth, pulpy, rather 

 more than 1 in. long, '75 in. in diam., endocarp smooth. 



Malacca, Pcrak; not uncommon. Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo. 



This appears to me to be a different plant from Loureiro's F. tinc- 

 toria, the typo of which is in the British Museum, 



