368 G, King — Materials for a Flora of the Maktyan Peninsula. [No, 3, 
brandies slender, glabrous, dark -coloured wlien dry. Leaves mem- 
branous, broadly elliptic, sliortly cuspidate, entire, rounded or very 
slig-litly narrowed at tlie Imse ; npper snrftice slijning, darkly 
cinereous when dry ; the lower pale^ cinereoas, dull : main nerves 6 or 
7 pairs, obsolete on the npper, faint on the lower surface when dry j 
length 1'75 to 2'D in,, breadth 1 to 1'35 in.; petiole "3 to '4 in,, slender. 
Flowers 15 in. in diam.» their pedicels about *2 in., in fascicles 
of 3 to 6 on very short asilLiiy tubercles shorter than tho 
petioles. Calyx fieshy, stib-campanulate, deeply divided iuto 6 broad 
reni form -ovate spreading teeth. Petals sub-erect, twice as long as th© 
ca!yx-lol>es, fleshy, very broadly oblong ; the apex obtuse, the base broad 
and trancfite. IHsc cupular, fleahy, entire. Ouary broad, depressed, 3- 
angled, suri-ounded by the disc, stigma small. Stamejis 3, spreading; 
the fikmeiits stout, slightly flattened, i-ecurved over the edge of tho disc: 
anfhe^rs small, rounded, 2-ceIled. Fruit globiilnr, nearly 2 in. in diam., and 
bright orange when lipe, glabrous, the surface much corrugated when 
di'y especially towards the apex ; pedicel very ijtont, '5 in. long. 
Pei-ak: Wray, No. 2512. 
12. Salacia Kunst LERf, King, u. sp, A scandent shrub ; young 
branches cinereous, glahi'ous, lonti cell ate, the bark striate wdien dry. 
Leaves membrauous, oblong- lanceolate or oblong-obinneeolate, shortly 
cuspidate, much narrowed to the base, both surfaces glabrcms, the lower 
brown when dry, tlie trausveree i^etieulations very di.stinct; main nerves 
about 7 pairs, spreading and curving upwai-ds ; length 3' 5 to 5'5 in., 
breadth 1'75 to 2"3 in., petiole '15 in. Flowers '15 in. in diam., on thin 
pedir-els '5 in. long, in fa.«icicles of 3 to 6 from very small bracteolate 
axillary tubercles. Calyx smallj cupnlar, spreading, deeply dividud into 
6 coucave ovate-orbicular teeth with coarsely ciliate edges. Petals 5, 
orbicular, spreading, much larger than the calyx-teeth. Disc flat, thin, 
annuhir, uat toothed, Stamens 3, attached to tiie inner edge of the disc ; 
the filaments veiy broad, triangular, recurved, anthers small. Ovary 
buried in the disc. Fruit fluknowa. 
Pei-ak : King's Collector, No. 683, (collected only once and probably 
a rare plant). 
13. Salacia flavescbns, Knrz, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1872, 
pt. 2, p. 300. A Bcandent shrub 40 to 60 foet long : young branches 
slender, black when dry and with numerous minute split warts. Leaves 
opposite, coriaceous, oblong, sub-acnte, the edges entire and slightly 
revoluto when dry, the base riiuudeil, almost sessile: both surfaces, but 
especially the lower, yellowish when dry ; main nerves 6 to 9 pairs, 
spreading, interarching far from the edge: length 4 to 7 in., breadth 
1*25 to 2 5 in. ; petiole about *2 in., stout. Flowers about *15 in, in 
