1896.] G. King— Materiah for a Flora of the Malayan PetiinsHla. 475 
coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to hi-mdly-elliptio^ soraet.imea aliglitly obovato, 
obtuse or sub-acute, the bnsc Rliglitly ciittoato, bfjth siirfaoos pfvlc vvhon 
diy mid with the reticulationB indistinet or obsoiftte ^ niaiii nerves 16 
to 18 pairs, bold, sub-horizon tal ; leugth 8 to 12 in., breadth 3-5 to 6 in. ; 
petiole '75 ^ 2*25 in., stout especially in ita lower hiiif. Panicles 
terminal or axillary, pod»nciihi(ej ns loncj as or longer tha^j the leaves, 
pubernlous or glabrous, blood-red when fresh, black when dry ; the 
bi anchea stout, sub-erect and bearing scattered cymose ' branch !ets, 
bracteoles minute. Fl'owers '35 in. in diam., piukish ; pedicels veiy shnrt, 
minutely bracteolafce at the base, Sepah 5, thick, ovato-lanceolafce, 
sub-acute, glabrous. Pettih 5, linear-oblong, acnte, twice aa long m the 
sepals, refiexed from about the midiUe, with an elongated 2- or ^-fid 
thickening near the baac and a short filiform hasal claw. Sfameus 5, 
but only 1 perfect aad nearly as long as the petals, the others shorter, 
Qiieqnal and imperfect. DisG cylindric. Ovary sub-ovoitl, glabrous ; 
dyh slender, lateral. Dmpa elliptic to globose, vai-ying in form, 
oblique, green, 3 or 4 in. long. Roxb. F!. Ind., ed. Carey, IT, 410 ; 
QrifE. Notul. IV, 419 ; DC. Prod. II, 63; Bhmie Mils. Bofc, Lngd. Bat, 
i 198; Miq. Fh Tud, Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 6:32; Hook, fil Fl. Bv. Ind. If, 
19 ; Kura For Fiorn Burma, I, 305 ; Engler in DC. Mon. Phan. lY, 
212. M. Eorsfwldi, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bi^t. Vol I, pt 2, 633. 
Malacca, Penang, Singapore, and probably in all the other Pro- 
vinces except the An da mans and Nicohars. — Distrib. Java, Sumatm. 
I extract the following note from Sir Joseph Hooker's Flora of 
British India. Drupe variable in Form, not compressed, oblique, green, 
smooth, very fetid J fUsh yellow, thick ;. *f<jne almost- 2-edged, charta- 
ceouB, fibrous ; cotyUdom equal, aui-icled at the brtse ; radi&h short, 
{Qii^lth.) — Maingay deficribes the fruit as coarse-flavoured, and not 
unlike Lanjoofe (Af lagcnifera), stringy. Malay name Bachang or 
Bachong. Bnmph and Lonreiro describe the drupe as hairy^ bat no 
one else does so ; possibly the fibres of the stone are alluded to by these 
authors." • 
15. MANOtFERA FRAfjRANS, Maingay MSS. ex Hook, fil. Fl, Br. Ind. 
I, 18. A tree everywhere glabroua ; young branches thick, black when 
dry. Leaves eoriaceoue, narrowly linear- oblong' or linear-lanceolato, 
acnte, acuminate or rounded at the apex, llie edges undulate, the base 
acute, abruptly contracted into the very slender petiole, both anrfaces 
conspicuously reticulate ; main nerves 25 to 35 pairs, slender, almost 
horizontal ; length 6 to 10 in., breadth 125 to 15 in. ; petiole 1 to 2 in, 
Fanich longer than the learns, on a' long podtuicle, spreading - its 
branches thick, glabrous, black when dry. Flowers nearly '3 in. long, 
erect, their pedicels tbickeued at thcii- apices. Sepah 5 ? unequal. 
