. 1896.] G. King — Materials foi- a Flora of the Malayan Pentnmla, 351 
disc, incurved, with a number of fleshy lobalar processes on their 
upper snrface. Disc f!esby, almost flat, with tnauy thick fleshy hair^ 
like processeB eborter than the filaments. Anthers 5, ovate ; the iilainents 
long-er than the anthers^ inserted in pits on the disc. Ovary broadly 
conical. Fruit unknown. 
Malacca: (Kew Distrib.) Ko. 393. 
Known only by Maing&y's Bcaufcy specimenSj not one of which is 
in fruit. 
7. LOPHOPETALUM ODLONGiFOLiUM, King n. sp. A tree 80 to lOO feet 
high : young branches glabrous^ terete, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves 
opposite, coriacROua, oblong or elh'ptic-obloiig, shortly and rather bluntly 
acnminafce, entire, the base cuneato, both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves 
8 or 9 paii-s, spreading, slightly curved; length 45 to 6 iu., hreadtK 
l*7o to 2 "25 iuv, petiola "5 to "65 in. Panicles axillary and t-emiinal, 
abouli half as long as the leaves, minutely bracteolatc, glabrous ; tbo 
bi'anches spreading^ the nlHniate braocblctB cymose* Flowers '25 in. m 
dram., their pedicels about as long as fchera.'selves. Calyx flat, corrn gated 
externally, tlie edge with 5 broad sub-reniform short teeth clo.sely 
applied to the corolla. Petals 5, continuous with the margin of tlie 
disc, much larger than the calyx-lobes, ovate-eUiptic, the edges slightly 
laciniate or entiie^ the upper sujface with a broad-based pointed fle.shy 
appendage and somo hairs. Disc flat, broad, obscurely 5-angled, covered 
with very short coarse bristle-like hairs. Stamens 5, inserted on the disc^ 
filaments short : anthers ovate, 2-eelled, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovat-y 
conica,l, simk in the disc, 3-celled ; style short, thick ; stigma small. 
Fruit unknown, Enonymtis adeitophorm, Scort. MSS. in Herb. Calc. 
Perak : Scorfcechmi, No. 194.3. 
S^- LoPHOPETALUM Clthtisii, n. sp. King. A medium-sized tree: 
yoimsj branches very slender, dark- coloured when dry. Leaves coriaceous, 
brtmdiy ovate, cuspidate, entire, the base ceneate ; upper surface when 
dry at first glaucous, afterwards dark-coloured, the lower always pale 
and very minutely dotted, both glabrous ; main nerves about 6 pairs, 
curving, fiiint ; length 2 to 2"5 in., breadth 1 to 1'5 in. ; petiole '5 or 6 in., 
.sli?iid«r. Cj/Hw* iixillary or terminal, about 1 to 1*35 in. long; the 
branches divaricating, 10- to 20-flowered. Flowers '3 in. in diam., as in 
L, pallidum but the hair-like ijrocesses on the disc coiitined to the 
edges of the pits in which the bases of the filaments are inserted. 
Penang on Government Hill ; Curtis No. 1577. 
A species with flowei s like i. pallidum y but witfk leaves of thicker 
textnre, broader, and with longer petioles. The cymes also are laryer 
aud the disc is devoid of processes, except round the edges of the pits 
from which the filaments spring. 
