1889.] G. King — Maferialsfor a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 381 



7. COSCINIUM, Colcbrooke. ' 

 Climbing shrabs. Flowers in detise globose heads. Sepals 6, with a 

 bract, orbicular. Petals 3, large, spreading, elliptic. Male floiver : sta- 

 mens 6, filaments oylindric, 3 inner connate to tbe middle ; anthers ad- 

 nate, outer 1- inner 2-celled, bursting vertically. Fem. flower: staminodes 

 6. Ovaries 3-6, subglobose ; styles subulate, reflexed. Drupes globose ; 

 endocarp bony. Seed globose, embracing a globose intrusion of the 

 endocarp; albumen fleshy, ruminate in the ventral face; embryo 

 straight, cotyledons orbicular, spreading, thin, sinuate, laoiniato, or 

 fenestrate. — Uistrib. Species 2 ; tropical Asiatic. 



1. C. FENESTRATUM, Colebrooke in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, 65. Young 

 shoots faintly striate, shortly tomentose, often ferruginous. Leaves co- 

 riaceous, very slightly peltate, rotund-ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, 

 tlie base ti-uncate and sometimes sub-sinuate, shining above, yellow-to- 

 mentose beneath, except the 7 stout glabrous nerves ; reticulations pro- 

 minent ; length of blade 5 to 7 in., breadth 4 to 6 in. ; petiole 2 to 3 in., 

 swollen and bent at base. Flowers in small pedunculate heads, in extra- 

 axillary racemes shorter than the leaves. Petals orbicular and, like the 

 sepals, persistent. Bipe drupes on stout pedicels with capitate apices, 

 globose, tomentose, -75 in. in diam. ; cotyledons laciniate. Miers in Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 645H ; Contrib. iii. 22, t. 88; H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 178. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 99. G. Mamgayi, Pierre Fl. Coch. Chine. 0. 

 WallicManwn and Wightianum, Miers in Tayl. Ann. Ser. 2, vii. 37, 

 Contrib. iii. 23. Menisp. fenestratum, Gsavtn.; DO. Prod. i. 103 ; Roxb. 

 PI. Ind. iii. 809. Oocculus Blimeanns, Wall. Cat. 4971, partly : Pereira 

 mediaa, Lindl. Fl. Med. 307. 



Straits Settlements, at low elevations, not so common as the next. 

 Distrib. Ceylon, and perhaps some of the Malayan Islands. 



The Ceylon specimens have larger leaves and a more condensed 

 inflorescence than the Malayan; but the flowers are alike. Pierre's 

 species 0. Maingayi is founded on Maingay's Malacca specimens (Kew. 

 Distrib. 117) but I cannot see that they differ specifically from his No. 

 118, or from Wallich's. 



2. C. Bltjmeandm, Miers Contrib. iii, 23. Young shoots sub-striate, 

 tawny-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, peltate, oblong, elliptic, rarely 

 ovate-rotund, obtuse or acute, the base rounded or truncate, sometimes 

 sub-sinuate, shining above, white-tomentose beneath, the 7 nerves bold 

 and prominent on lower surface as are the reticulations, length of blado 

 8 to 12 in., breadth 4 to 7 in. ; petiole 4 to 6 in , swollen at base and 

 apex. "Male inflorescence 5 in. long, racemose, densely fermginous- 

 tomentoso ; the flower heads -35 in. in diam. Female in/Iorescence from 

 the stem, 8 in. long, its branches horizontal : drupes globular, tomon- 



