4 G- King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Feninmta. [No, Ij 
nat^j narrowed ia the lower fonrfch to the rotinded or aub-coi'dafce base j 
tipper srtrfaco rugose and, even when adult, dotlipd with sparse 
thin hairs ; when old ghibryusT the midrib ami tiervea depressed 
and tomentose; uuder-surlace rusty-tonioutose ; maiu nerves 6 or 7 
pairs, ohlique, curved, prominent beneath ; length 3 to 6 in., breadth 
1"25 to 2 iiL, petiolules 'I to "15 iu. Fanicles terminal, shorter or longer 
than the leaves ; the branches father short, stout. Flowers crowded, 
■3 in. long, on pedicels much shorter than themselves. St^paU oblong- 
ovate, tomentose outside, glabrous inside, Felah linear-oblong', glabrous. 
Stainens 10, alternately long and short, the filanients glabroas. Omrtf 
oblong, tomeiitoae, style short. Follicle obo void -oblong, shortly apiuu- 
late^ tapering to the base, red when ripe, densely rnsty -tomentose, 
1*75 to 2"25 ill. long and S to I "25 in, broad ; peiicaq^ woody, densely 
ikericeous inside. Seed narrowly oblong', 1 in, long and '6 in. broad, 
black, shining, with a basal incomplete arillns '5 in. loii<^. Planclion in 
Limitea, Vol. XXIII, 429 ; Hook, fil. Fl. Br. lud, II, 51. Trichalohus 
ferruginens, BIuuio Mus. Bot. Lugil. Bat, 1. 237. Oo^naravssa, Wall, 
Cat. 8530. 
In all the provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. — 
DiSTRiB. Sumatra. 
I see no qbrifaoter to separate Blame^a gmns Tricholohm from Conttarti9f and 1 
thereforo follow Sir Joseph Hooktsr in udheririg to Jn-ck'a nnrda for thig plant. 
3. CoNJJARDS SEMiDKCANUtttTS, Jack in Mai. Misc. 2, Vll, 39. A 
iaimentose or often scaudeut shrub ; yonng branches deciduously 
pnbernlous. Leaves 6 to 9 in. long, their rachisea and the under-surfaces 
of the leaflets with their petiolnles pubescent or puhernlous ; leaflets 5 
to 7, thinly coriaceous, oblong to elliptic- lanceolate^ shortly candate- 
acuminate, the base cnneate or ronodcd ; upper surf ace quite glabroas ; 
the lower reticulate^ the pubescence often deciduous with age ; main 
nerves 6 or 7 pairs, promiuent on the lower sarface, spreading but cur- 
ving npwards, the lower pair very oblique j length 2*5 to 4 5 itu, breadth 
*9 to 2 5 in., petiolules 15 in Panicles axillary and terminiil, longer than 
the leaves, mnch biauched, densely and minutely rusty- tomentose. 
Flowers rather crowded, "2 in. long, on pedicels shorter than themBolvea. 
S*ipals oblong, obtuse, concave, p albescent outside, ahortcr than the 
glabrous linear-oblong petals. Stamens 10, in two rows, one row veiy 
short, the other wiih its filaments dilated at their bases and as long as 
the petnls. Pistil single, shorter than the stamens, the ovary hairy ; 
the style short, stout, pubescent; stignja snb-capitate. Follicles falcate, 
obovoid, compressed, with a short abrupt apical point, narrowed to a 
sfcalk at the base» at first rnsty-pubescent, afterwards glabrous, obliquely 
striate^ about '75 to '9 in. long and '5 in. broad ; pericai^p thin^ sparsely 
