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348 G. King — MaieriaUfor a Flora of the Malaym Peninsula. [Ko. 3, 
5. LOPHOPETALDM, Wight. 
Trees or shrubs^ ustially glabroaa. Leaves opposite or alternate, 
petioled, exstipulate. Sepals 5, rounded, ehort, spreading. Fetah 5, con- 
tinuous with the disc, persistants the upp&r Burface cristate or tame I late, 
or covered with fleshy villi, or naked. Stamens 5, iiiBerted on the disc far 
from its edge ; anthers oblong. Disc large, flat» entire or lobed. 
Ovary small, immersed in the disc and continuous with it^ trigonal or 
pyramidal, 3-4-celled, contracted into a short style, stigma capitate ; 
ovules 4 or more in each cell, in 2 series. Capsule coriaceous, 3-4- 
angled, S-i-celled, localicidal. Seeds winged, albumen fleshy, — Distbib. 
Species 15 ; Indian and Malayan. 
Leaves very thickly coriaceous ; flowers -75 in. 
in diam., cymes longer than the leaver ... 1, 
Leaves thinly coriaceous. 
Flowers "5 in. in diam. ... 2. 
Flowers "25 to "3 in. in diara, 
Leaves more or less obovate ... 3. 
Leaves not obovate. 
Disc without fleshy hair-like processes 
Sepals bluntly ovate ... ... 4. 
Sepals del to id -rotund,.. ,„ 5. 
Disc with numerous fleshy hair-like 
proceBses over its whole surface. 
Leaves 2'5 to 3 in. long j petals 
rotund- deltoid, the upper surface 
with nameroua fleshy processes ... 
Leaves 4*5 to 6 in. long ; petals 
ovate-elHptic, with a broad-based 
acuminate fleshy process on the 
upper surface 
Disc with fleshy processes only at 
the edges of the pits iu which the 
filaments are inserted ... ... 8. 
Plowers only about ■ I in. in diani» ... 9. 
Imperfectly known speciea .... 
L, paehyphyjlum, 
L. Jimhriatum, 
L, sithohovaium. 
L, Scortechinu, 
L. ohlongum. 
6. L. pallidum^ 
7. Zf. ohlongifolium. 
L. Curtisiu 
L. refiexwrn, 
L. fuscemm. 
1. LofHOPETAtUJi PACBIPHTLLUM, n. sp. King. A tree 80 to 100 
feet high; young branches slender, terete, dai-k -col cured when dry. 
Leaves thickly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, entire, the base 
narrowed^ upper surface pale when dry ; the lower cinereous, thickly 
