1889.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Feninsula. 397 



20 : filaments equal, not compressed : anthers innate. Fistil as long as 

 the stamens ; gynophore shorter than the glabrous, 2-celled, ovoid ovary. 

 Stigmas 3, globular, minute. Fruit unknown. Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 

 409. 



Perak. King's Collector, No. 1611. Distrib. Burmah. 



2. R. ScoRTECHiNii, King, n. sp. Scandent, glabrous except the 

 minutely pubescent inflorescence and sepals. Leaves membranous, ellip- 

 tic or obovate-elliiitic, shortly and abruptly acuminate, narrowed to the 

 base ; upper surface shining ; the lower pale, the midrib and 6 paii's of 

 arching main nerves prominent : length of blade 5'5 to 6'5 in., breadth 

 3 in. ; petiole 1'25 in., thickened in the upper half and bent in the middle. 

 Flowers in terminal or axillary panicles or racemes, shortly pedicellate, 

 •25 in. in diam. Sepals 6, slightly imbricate in bud, united at their bases, 

 linear-oblong, sub-acute, minutely tomentose on both surfaces, reflexed. 

 Stamens 30 ; the filaments unequal, slendei-, compressed, united by their 

 bases ; anthers innate. Pistil as long as the stamens, the gynophore 

 shorter than the ovary, puberulous. Ovary glabrous. Style twice aa 

 long as the ovaiy, cylindric ; stigmas 3, sessile, ovate, small. Bipe fruit 

 ovoid, smooth, yellow, 1'5 in. long and 1 in. in diam. ; endocarp mem- 

 branous. 



Perak ; Scortechini, King's Collector, Nos. 81.64 and 4225 : in open 

 rocky places from 500 to 1200 foot. 



In his field note on No. 84G4, the collector describes this as "a 

 splendid creeper 80 to 100 feet long "; in that on No. 4225, he says, " a 

 tree 40 to 50 feet high." Fr. Scortechini's specimens have no notes. 

 From the flexuose appearance of the dried twigs, I believe this is a 

 creeper, and not a tree. This and the last belong to the section of 

 Hoydsia characterised by having an undivided style, for which Sir J. D. 

 Hooker, (F. B. I. i. 409), proposes the sectional name of Alytostylis, but 

 with an expression of doubt as to whether it should not bo separated 

 off as a genus. To this group belongs also the Philippine species 

 -B. florihunda. Planch. An undescribed species from Burmah in the 

 Calcutta Herbarium (Gallatly No, 499) also falls into this section. 



5. CRATiEVA, Linn, 



Trees. Leaves 3-foliolate. Flowers large, yellow or purplish, poly- 

 gamous. Sepals 4, cohering below with the convex lobed disk. Petals 

 4, long-clawed, open in bud. Stamens indefinite, adnate to the base oE 

 the gynophore. Ovary on a slender stalk, 1-celled ; stigma sessile, 

 dejjressod ; ovules many, on 2 parietal placentas. Berry fl.eshy. Seeds 

 imbedded in pulp. — Distrib. Species about 6, tropical and cosmopolitan. 



1. C. MACBOOAKPA, Kurz iu Jouru. Bot. 1874, p. 195, 1. 148, figs. 8 to 



