486 0. King — Materials fur a Flora of the Mulmjan Peninsula. [Ko. 3^ 
ceiico of the under anrfaco of the leaves in thin species them is Home 
tlivernit}", many specimens Imving fcho under surface corcrcct with n 
denso and uniform layer of rusty toinentamj while in other specimens 
• tlie lower aurfiLM of the leaves and the petioles are jfhihi oscent. The 
apecics wa?* named by Father Suorteeliini lo comnieniorato his friend, 
the Revd. Father Teimison Woods, wlio dird of an illness contracted 
during his exploration of the physiography of the contra! momitaiuous 
raugo of the Malayan Pcninsuta, 
4. MKLANOJtRHdJA Ctnvnsii, Oliver in Hook. Ic. Plantar, t. J5J3. 
A treo 40 to 80 feet high : you in g brandies very slender. Leaves 
coriaceous, oblongdanceolate or elUptic-oblong, ohtnset or shortly and 
hi nntly acuminate, tlio base caneate, both surfaces quite glabrous and 
without scales or dots ; main nerves 12 to 16 pairs, eprea4ing, curving, 
faint J len;j:th 3 to 5 in.> breadth 1"25 to 2 in.; petiole '5 f-o '75 iit. 
Panicles slender, open, axillary and terminal, pedunculate, much longer 
than the leaves ; the branches opposite or sub-opposite, distant, lax, 
each bearing several ultimate few-flowered branchlets near the apex, 
puberulous close to the flowers, otherwise ([uite glabrous j braeleoUs 
small, ovate-lanceolate, caducous. Flowers '25 in, long, on pviberulons 
pedicels, the buds narrow. Cahj.v with dark nerves. Petala 5, linear, 
puberulous outside, contorted in Aestivation . Sla'7ncns 10, a Httle 
shoi'ter than the petals, glabrous; the jUaments slender ■ the antJien^ urimW^ 
ova!. Disc pubescent. Omry obliquely ovoid, stalked, glabrous. Style 
sttb- terminal, Dmpe depressod-globaso, *5 to '75 in. in diam., its stalk 
*35 in. I the enlarged petals leathery, Iineai"-ob lanceolate, 1'75 to 2'5 in, 
long, Dutlncana, Scort. MvSS. in Herb. Calcutta. 
Penang: Curtis, Ko. 242; King's Collector. No, 1635, Perak : 
King*s Collector, No. 6887. Kedah ; Ridley, No. 5359. 
The late Father Scortechini notes on this that the stamens are 
occasionally 8 instead of 10. 
5. MBWXORituosA TORQitATA, King n. sp, A tree 80 to 100 feet 
high; young branches stout, and wlUi rough rather pale brown bark. 
Leaves ooriaceoua, obovate, with broad rounded apices, snb-andulate 
edges, and shai-ply cuneate bnBcs ; both am-faces glabi*ous, the upper 
with the reticulations almost obsolete, the midrib very bimd and flat j 
the lower with the transverse veins raUier distinct, the midrib sharply con- 
vex; niaiti nerves 22 to 26 paii*B, lather faint on the upper surface when 
dry, very distinct on the lower, spreading and mlher stmight ; length 
7 to 11 in., breadth 4 to G 25 in,; petiole -25 to '35, stent, Panichs 
terminal, branching from the very base, densely and' minutely tawny- 
tomentoBo; the branches spreading, naked below but with many branehlets 
toward the apex, the ultimate bi-anohtefcs oymulose. Flowers "25 in. 
