428 Q-. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3, 
Ovary (in male flower) rudimentary. Frtdt sub-globular, with or 3 
brand rounded atigles, densely rusty- tomentose, I'o in. in diam., Uia 
pericarp cmstaceous ; smeds 3, large. 
Perak : King's Collector, Noa. 4634, 7359. 
Tliis reaemblea mo}itaiia to somo extent j but has much lafger 
leavea, a more robnst and longer inHorescencG and larger flowora and 
jfruit. I have not seen female flowers and therefore cannot describe the 
ovary, 
2. Lepisanthes andamaniga, Kixkg n. sp. A tree ? young bi-auchee 
pale when dry, glabrous like all the other paHs except the inflorescence. 
Luaves 7 to 12 in. long, equally pinnate : Imjlets 2 to 4, coiiaceoua, pale 
when dry, ©lUptic-oblanceolate, subacute, slightly oblique and much 
narrowed to the base, both sui^faoes minutely reticulate ; main nerves 
5 to 8 pairs, spreading, slightly prominent beneath : length 4 to 7 in,, 
breadth 1'35 to 2'75 in. j petiolulea '2 to*'5 in,, stont. Panicl&sS to 10 in. 
long, with 3 or 5 narrow raceme- like puherulous branches^ the ultimate 
branchlets being few-flowered cymelets. Flotcers '25 in, in diam., pedi- 
cellate. Si^ah 5» nneqoal, oborate, blunt, tomentose outside. Petals 5, 
narrowly obovate-oblong, glabrous with a villous claw and a large oblong 
bnsal scale. Stamens 8, the anthers glabrous and shorty the filaments long 
and villous. Fruit snb-globular, with 3 deep yertical ridges, minutely 
toraentoee, slightly apicalato and with a short thick pseudo-stalky 3- 
cellcd, 3-seeded ; the pericarp cruataceoiis, '8 in. long, and about as 
broad. 
Andaman Islands : Kk3g*s Collector. • 
3, Lepisaxtees cone ATA, Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind, I, 680. 
A shrub ; young branches tawny-puberalons, Leavee 15 to .^0 in, long, 
the raehisea puberulous or minntely tomentose; leajlefs 10 to 14, sub- 
opposite or alternate, ohlong or elliptic-oblong, the apex bluntly and 
shortly cuspidate, the bft.se much narrowed ; both auifaces reticulate, tlie 
lower slightly puberulous towards the base ; main nerves 8 to H pairs, 
spreading, curving upwai'ds, rather prominent beneath ; length 4 to 9 
in,, breadth 1'5 to 2*75 in., petiolules "25 to '35 in. Panicles narrow 
and spike-like, in fascicles of 3 to 5, axillary or slightly above the 
leaves, 1 to 3 in. long. Flowers *1 in. in diam. ; hracteoUs anbtilat-e, 
minute. Sepals aub-rotnnd, puberuleus. Petals 5,, glabrous, each with 
a single inflected scale at its haae. Fmit broadly ovoid, compi-essed, 
with a vertical groove, densely and minutely ciuereous-tomentose, 
crowned by the persistent style and obscurely 2-Iobed stigma, two-celled 
and with a single seed in each ceU, '25 in. broad and about the same in 
length, 
Penang: Porter, Ciu tis, No. 3009. Perak : Wray, Noa. 1400, 
1990, 3563 : King's Collector, Nos. 3059, 7072. 
