1896.] G. King—UiUerials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 349 
cavered witli very miimtie pHpillae ; main nerves 7 or 8 paira^ aacendintr^ 
cui-ved; length 4 to 5 5 in., breadth 1*6 to 2"75 in., petiole '5 to *75 in. 
Cymes pauicTilate, axillary oi^termina], bracteolatej 3 or 4 in, in ditnn.j 
on peduncles 2 to 3 in. long. Floipers '7 o in, in di&m. ] their pedicels 
slender, braciieolafce, abonfc "5 in. long. Calyx and disc rotund, scarcely 
lobed. Petals attached to the edge ot tlie disc, rotund wifcb traneate 
bases, thick, not fimbriate. Disc fleshy, glightly convex, the slender 
filaments rifling far from ita edge ; antliers ovate. Ovary ozpauded 
below, 3-angled above, glabrous. Fruit unknown, 
Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 403, Perakt King's 
Collector No, 7325, 
Fruit of thia is unknown. The species is a very distinct one, at 
one© recognisable by its large flowers and very thick leares. Tlio 
petals, according to Kunstler, are palo yellow with a dark patch at 
the Uase. 
2. LoPHOPEFAtOM FiMPfiiATDM, Wight III. L 178- A small tree: 
young branches terete, dark-colon iTsd when diy. Leaver tliiuly coria- 
ceous, elliptic or eliipfcic-oblong, shortly cuspidate, entire, the base 
rounded or slightly narrowed ; upper surface olivaceous when dry, Ihe 
lower brown main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, spreading, carving, slightly 
prominent beneath ; length 3 to 4*5 in., breadth 2 to 2 25 in., petiolo 
•65 in. Cymes axillary or terminal, pedancled, ^paniculate ; the 
brancbes divaricate, many-flowered. Floioers '5 in. in diain., on pedicel.'* 
•25 in. long. Calyx-lobes very short* Petals rotund-obovate, much 
larger than the sepals, with transverse fimbriate crests about the middle. 
Stamens with long slender filaments, inserted on the middle of the 
broad 5-lobed disc Ovary dopresBed, tapering into the conical style. 
Fruit 3-angled {ripe unknown). Laws, in Hook, fil, Fl. Br. Ind, L 615 ; 
Kurz For, Flor. Burma, I, 255, L. cpaiftni, Fresl, Botan. Bemerk. 33. 
L. favanuvu Tnrcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Moac. 1863, pfc. i. 545. Ettotiymits 
ovaia, Wall. Cat. 4300. 
Malacca : Griffith,—- Distrig, Burma, Chtttagong, Sjlhet. 
3, LoPHfOPSTALUM SUB-OBOVATDM, n. Hp., King. A tree ; young bran- 
ches cinereous when dry. Leaves oboviite-oblong, obtuse, slightly cuspi- 
date, entire, much narrowed to the base, the lower surface pale brown 
when dry j main nerves about 6 pairs, spreading^ faint ; lengih 2 5 to 
4 in., breadth 1'4 to 2 in,, petiole "35 to '45 in. Pawide* axillary, pe- 
dunculate, 2 to 3'5 in. long, and 1 to 2 5 in. in diam., branching from 
near the base, the branches divaricating ; the branchlefcs cymoae, few- 
flowered. Flouiers '3 in. in diam. Calyx spreading; the teeth deltoid, 
sub-acute. Pdah 5, larger than tlie calyx, broadly-oblong, sub- 
obtnse, corrugated on the upper two-thirds of the auteiior surface and 
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