456 O. King—Matetiah for a Flora of the Malayan Penmsula. [Fo. 3, 
Leaflets liairy, efipecially on the under sui*face. 
Flowers in clnatere, Bessile, bndg globose ... 6. lancmlafcu 
FloweiiB solitary, shortly pedicoUed, buds ob- 
long ... ... ... 6, M. Bidleyi, 
1, Meliosma BLLiPTroA, Hoofe. fiL PL Br. Ind. 11, 5. A tree 20 
to 40 feet high j young branches, petioles, the midribs of the leaves oo 
both snrfaces, and the lower surface especially on the nerres densely 
rusty-pubescent or tomentose. Leaves elliptic or oblanceolate, shortly 
caudate -acuminate, the edges entire or remotely serrate, gradually 
narrowed from above the middle to the petiole : upper surface glfib- 
rous except the midrib and pnberulous nerves ; main nerves about 10 
pairs, curving upwards, the transvei'BC veins distinct; length 4 to 9 in., 
breadth 1-25 to 3 in. ; petiole "5 to 1-5 in, Fanide terminal, usually on 
rather a long peduncle, longer than the leaves, the branches rather 
few and short. Floicers crowded, sessile, *05 in. in diam. Bract eoles 
pubescent. Sepals 4, snb-eoriaceons, orbicnlar, very concave, sTiining, 
sub-ciliolate. Petals 5, darker in colonr than the sepals but of similar 
shape, thick, opaf^^e and dotted, glabrous. Fertile stamens 2 to 4. FrvU 
sub-globular, ridged, eub-gibbons at the- base, glabrous, *2 to '25 in. 
in diam. Sah'a Jlorihtmda, Miq, FL Ind. Bat, Snpph 521. 
Malacca : G riflfitb, No. 1025 ; Maingay, Deny, Perak : King's 
Collector, Noa. 4051, 5468, 5469, 6150, 8103, and 10659.— Singapore. 
DiBTRiB. Sumatra. 
This is closely allied to If. simplicifoUa which has however its 
flowers in ultimate cymlets of 3, whereas in this the flowers arc single. 
The sepals moreover in Jlf. HmpUcifoUa are thinner and more pnbescetit 
than in this. As a rule the leaves in this species are quite entire ; but 
in severul of the Perak specimens they are coarsely seiTate, without in 
any other respect departing from tlie typical tom\. 
2. Mkliosma lAkcifolia, Hook fiL Fl. Br. Ind. IT, 5. A ti-ee : 
young branches petioles and inflorescence rnsty-villous. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, oblanceolate-acuminate, entire, gradually narrowed from 
above the middle to the petiole ; both surfaces distinctly reticulate, 
the upper shining, glabrous except the tomentose midi-ib and nerves ; 
lower villous on the midrib and nerves, otherwise with scattered haii-s; 
main nerves 20 to 24 pairs, spreading, curved, interarching fixjely ; 
length 12 to 18 in., breadth 3-5 to 4 in., petiole '75 in. Panicle shorter 
than the leaves, pedunculate, the branches few and short and the 
flowoi'S sessile and crowded. Flowers about -1 in. in diam. ; bracteole 
oblong, pubescent, shorter than the 4 ovate glabrous sepals: petals 
fertile ; stamens 2 or 3, shorter than the sepals. Ouary elliptic ; style 
short, terminal. Ftttii transversely ovoid-gl6bose, keeled, glabix>ae, 
*3 in. in diam. 
