388 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peniftsida. [No. 3, 
glabrous or nearly so ; the lower sarface woolly on tlie neiTcs and with, 
scattered Iiairs between, often glabrescenb when old ; main eerres 6 or 
7 pairs, spreading, the lower one or two paii*s nuicU curved and branch- 
ing oiitwai-ds; length 6 to 10 in., breadth 4'5 to 9 in.; petiole 2'5 to 6 
in., with pubescence like the young branches, becomiTig glabrous with 
age. InJiaresc^nC'e thjrsoid, sericeoua-toraentose, 4 to 6 in. long, on an 
equally long peduncle bearing a long once or twice diehotomoua tendril 
clothed irvith w^ool and bristles. Flowers 4-merons, on short pedicels. 
Calyx cupular, glabrous like the separatitig petals. Berrij pedicelled, 
globular, -3 in. in diam., smooth, w^ih scanty pulp and 3 or 4 com- 
pressed plano-convex shining seeds grooved on the plane surface and 
slightly rngaloBG on the convex. Wall. Cat, 5997, 5995 C. and D ; 
Lawson in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 651 in fart \ Kura For. Flora Bur- 
ma, Ij 276. Ampcloc'mm harhata^ Planch, in DC. Mon. Phau. V, 372, 
F. lanata. Laws, (not of Roxb.) Fl. Br. Ind. I, 651, in part. 
Andamans ; King's Collectors. Distkib. Burma, Sylhet, Assam, 
and the base of the Eastern Himalaya. 
Yar. trilohatOi leavea S-lobed, pubescence rufous. 
Perak : King's Collector, No. 1768. Distrib. Siara, Timor. 
This species is distinguished by the mixture of soft pale haira and 
dark subulate bristles with which the young sterna petioles and ton- 
drila are covered. The species is really an excellent otie ; but it has 
been misunderstood owing I believe mainly to a mistake of Wallich 
its author who issued, under tlie name F. harbata, specimens which 
bore the same number (5994) b& his species F. rugosa^ and which really 
belong to F. mgosa. As a rule the pubescence of F. harhata is pal© 
brown, and not rufescent. But in the Perak specimeua the pubescence 
is pale ferrugineous, and the leaves moreover are sKghtly ihree-lobed. 
In other respects the Perak plant agrees with specimens from Bnrma, 
the Andamana and Sylhet, F. rugosa, to which this species ia un- 
doubtedly allied, appears however to be quite different. It has not the 
characteristic biistles of F. foarfcato, and its pnbescencc is always ru- 
fescent. V. rugasa has really little affinity with F. lanataj Roxb. to 
which it has been reduced by Lawson and others. 
2. Yms MAOROSTACHTA, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 94. All 
parts quite glabrous; branches slender, Bub-compi*essed, angled, not 
winged. Leaves coriaceous, shining, broadly ovate 'or oblong, shortly and 
abroptly acnmiuate, the edges with a few distant short exserted spinous 
teeth, the base rounded, the reticulations minute and distinct on both 
surfaces when dry ; main nert^es 5 or 6 pairs, spreading j length 3 to 
6 in., breadth 2 to 3 25 in., petiolea 1'2 io I'S in. Spikes very narrow, 
much longer than tho lea?e8, often in lax panicles, pendulous, Flmoers 
