1896.] G. King— Materiah for a Flora of ihe MaJmjan Fettinmla. 489 
Leaves coriaceous, main nerves 10 to J 2 pairs, 
iiiconspiciioas ; pedicbls longer than the flower^ 
Blender ... . , , ... 2. S, Penavfpana. 
Flower-buds embracpd by iai*gc concftve imbri- 
cate bracts ... ,.. ... 3. S- spicifera, 
Irapei-fectlj known species ... .,.4. jS'. Ittriihi, 
1. SwtNTONiA ScHWENKU, Teysm. and Biim. Cat. Hort. Bogor, 
(1860) p. 230, A tree; young branches slender, glaucous. Leaves 
sub- coriaceous, oblong- lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, Hluu-fty and ob- 
tusely actl^IlLitlat^3, the edges sub-undulate, the base* slightly narrowed 
but usually rounded ; both surfaces obscure ly reticulate, the lower paler 
when dry; main nerves 14 to 18 pairs, flpreudiug aud mfher ntraitrht : 
lenjiftli 3 to 6 in., breadth I 'Zb to r5 in. ; petiole 1'25 to l o iti. slender, 
with a slight swelliug at the very base, Faidclca crowded at the ends 
of the branches in the axils of the upper leaves, slender, usually longer 
than the leaves, pedunculate ; the branchoB short, alternate, spreading, 
the ultiiuato btatichlcta cjrnose. Flowers polygamoua, J in, diam., on 
very short pedicels. Segnwutu of the calyx united only at the bfise, 
orbicular, concave, glabrous. Fetats oblong, obtuse, pubescent on both 
eurfiices, rapidly enlarging in the ripe fruit and I'eflexed, 2'5 in. Jong, imr- 
rowly oblong, coriaceous, veined. Dntpe oblong, smooth, 75 in. long. 
KurK in Journ. As. Soc. Beng, Vol. XXXIX, Pt. 2, (1S70), 75; Kngler 
in DQ, Mon, Phan. IV^ ^32. Anatiieaitopettiluvi Sc/nveMkii, Te3'Sni. and 
Binnend. iu Miquel Joui'o. I, 368. Aslropeialum 2, Griffith, Notul. IV, 
415, 
Malacca: Griffith, Ko. 1156; Maingay, No. No. 48G.— Distrib 
Sumatm. 
I have followed Sir Joseph Hooker and Dr. Engler m identif^'ing 
this Malacca species of Sivintonia with 8. SchwenkUf T. B., although 
the specimens in the Calcutta Herbarium hai'dly beai' this out. In 
the Oalcatta Herbarium there are authentic specimens of Jmn^c- 
attopetaluni Schwenkii^thc name originally given to tho npecies by 
Teyem. and Binn, These specimens were collected in the Bluitenssos-g 
garden and wei-e sent out by its autlioi's. They are therefore practi- 
cally type specimens* for as the authors explaiu (Miq, Journ. Bot. I, 
369) the species was named in the Betiitenzorg giirden from spocimcnB 
taken from trees ox-iginally received from Sumatra by Major Schwenk, 
Dr. Anderson in 1861 also collected in the Beuitenzorg giu-den spcciineni* 
of the same. These B^uitenzorg specimens all agree in having ilowei's 
with rather long pedicels. Now, in describing S. >Schwciikii in the FL 
Br, India from the Malacca tipecirjiens, Sir Jo.seph Htxikcr makes it a 
diagnostic mai'k of the species, as understood by him, that the flowers 
