5150 G. King — Materiah for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3,. 
crested. Disc thick, flesh j, entire, pitted. Stamens 5 j the filaments 
Bobulate, their basea in small iiiappeudictilato pits ; anthers email, ovato. 
Ovary sunk in the dis€, conical j ditjma mitijpte. Fridt nti known. 
Penang : on Government Hill, Curtis, No. J501. 
4. LOPHOFETALUM ScoaTECHiNii, n. flp. Kinj^, A tree 60 to 80 feet 
high : young braucbes slender, terete, dark-coloared when dry. Leaves 
coriaceous, broadly elliptic or ovate, sometimes obovate; the apex obtuse 
fiub-acnte or very shortly cuspidate, the btise narrowed ; main nervfs 
about 5 pairs, spreading or ascending-, faint; length 3'5 to 4'5 in,, 
breadth 1*75 to 2 25 in., petiole.^ *4 to '5 in. Pmiides cjmose, axillary, 
ehorter than the leaves, the flowers rather crowded towards the end 
of the short divaricating compressed branches. Flowers *25 in, in diarn, 
iSepah 5, bluntly ovate, spreading. Petals 5, deltoid-rotund, spreading, 
flat with undulate edges, attached to ihe edges of the broad tliiu 5- 
angled fleshy disc. .4»*Aers 5, snb-aessile, ovate-orbicular j ovary much 
depreHsed, sunk in the disc with only the capitate stigma protruding, 
4- or 5'celled, FruU (mature not seen) elongate, glabrous, 3-wiijged, 
3-celled, the calyx persisteat at its base ; seeds flat, winged at both ends, 
Ftwnymtis mnmm Ularh^ S cor te c !n n i M S S . 
Ferak : Scortechini, No, 194.1 ; King's Collector, No. 6676. 
5. LoPHOPETALUM OBLOSGUM, n. sp. King. A tree 50 feet high : 
young brandies striate, dark-coloured wlien dry. Leaves coriaceoufi, 
oblong or elliptic -oblong, acute, entire, the base cuneafe ; main nerves 
7 or 8 pail's, curved, spreading; length 3'5 to 45 in., breadth l o to 
1'8 in., petiole "4 to '5 in. Panicles axillary, rather shorter than the 
leaves, 2*5 to 3'5 in. in diam., the branches divaricate ; the branchlets 
cymose, many-flowered. Flowers -3 in. in diam, ; their pedicels "1 in 
length, Sepals deltoid-rotund, thick, spreading. Petals 6, thinner and 
longer than the sepals, each with an elongate sub-fimbriate cre.«it on the 
anterioi' surface. Stamens 5, inserted far froni the edge of the thick 
fleshy slightly 5-nngled disc: anthers ovate, filaments short, Omry 
Bunk in the disc, tapering into the rather thin style, stigma nainut'e. 
Fruit woody^ 3- winged, 5 in. long and nearly 1*5 in. hroad. Seeds fltat, 
%'h in, long (including 'the wings.) 
Penang: near the waterfall, Curtis, No. 2736. 
6. LOPHOPETALUM PALLIDUM, Laws. In Hook, fil. T?l. Br. Tnd. L 615. 
A glabrous tree ; young shoots slender, dark-coloured when di-y. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, entire, the base 
rounded, both surfaces pale when dry • main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, 
spreading, faint ; length 2-5 to 3 in., breadth M to I S in., petiole '3 
to "4 in. Cymes "6 to "75 in. long, axillary, 6- to 8-flowered, the pednncle 
and branches 4*angled. Fhnvers *25 in. in diam. ; calyx and disc rotund, 
not lobed. Petals rotnnd-deltoid, fleshy, attached to the edge of the 
