1896.] G. King— Materials for a Mora of the Malayan Peninsula, 457 
Malacca r Maiiigny, IKo. 463/2. Pomk : ScorfcecMni. 
8. Meliosma kitida, Blame Cat. Hort. Bol Bosror. 32 ; Rurapliia, 
III, 202, t, 169. A slirnb or small tree : young branches glabrous, 
lenticellate. Leaves 12 to 18 in. long, nneqnallj pinnate, quite glabrous, 
tbo racbises deeply cbaniielled on tlio npper surface ; leajlets coriaceous, 
7 to 13, opposite or alternate, elliptic-orate or ob ovate- lanceolate, acnte 
or sbortly acuminate, entire, the base more or less cnneate, i-arely 
TOunded; botb surfaces quite glabrous, tbo lower paler and prominently 
reticulate ; main nerves 7 to 10 pairs, spi-eading, curving* npwards, 
intemrcbing at some distance from tlie margin; length 4 to 12 in., 
breadth 1'75 to 4"25 in. ; petiolnlea '35 to -75 m. Panicks terminal or 
axillary, rather aborfcerthan the leaves, scurfy-pnberulouB, the branches 
abort and the flowers densely crowded. Fhtvers '1 in. in diam,, shortly 
pedicelled ; the buds pointed, the bracteolo single and coriaceous. S^ah 
4, enb-rotund, concave, spreading. Petah ^;th& 3 outer rotund, valvate, 
the sutures of their edges prominent; the two inner completely enclosed, 
Bmali, each with a stamen opposite it* Stamens 2 ; tlie hooded anther 
broad, expanded and with two rotnnd diverging lobea separated by a wi4je 
connective, the filament tapering to a narrow base. Ovary ovoid. Fruit 
obliquely elliptic when young, slightly flattened on one side and keeled 
on the other; when npe ovoid-j-otund, about 1 in, long and '8 in. in 
diam. Blume Rnmpbia III, 202. t. 169; Miq, Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2. 617. 
Meliosma sumafrana, Hook til, FL Br. Ind. II, 6, Millmgtoma mma- 
frana, Jack in Mai, Misc. 1I» *S9 ; K"ees in Flora for 1825, 106 ; Miq. Fl, 
lud. Bat. l.c, Irina iniegerrhnit^ Blume Bijdr. 231. 
Malacca: Griffith, Maingay, No. 461. Penaug: Curtis, No. 2836. 
Perak : (very common) Kiag's Collector. — Distrib. Sumatra. 
4. Meliosma LEVIS, King u. sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet high : 
Uaves 30 to 40 in, long; the rachisea and petioles pnbernlons and 
terete, the latter swollen at the baae ; leaflets 10 to 12 pairs, coria- 
ceous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate ; the edge entire, 
recurved when dry, the base i-ather abruptly coneate : both surfaces 
glabi-ous ; the upper dnll, opaque, olivaceous when dry, the lower 
pale brown, tesaelate-araolate ; main nerves 14 to 16 pairs, spread- 
ing, curving, interarcbing far from the edge : length 5 to 7 in., 
breadth 1 to 1*25 in.; peliok "35 in. Paiiides about as long as the 
leaves with lax raceme-like branches, sparsely covered with veiy short 
coarse msty hairs. Floweis less than '1 in. in diam., sessile on very 
short woody lateral branchlets ; hracteales two, unequal, broadly oblong, 
pubescent. Sepah 2, sub- orbicular, concave, erect, tLick, pubei-ulous 
outside. Petah 5 ; the three outer larger than the sepals, very concave, 
glubi-ous, the two inner small and irregular. Stamens 2, or sometimes 3, 
the anther with wide hooded comiective. Fruit unknown. 
