6 G. King— Mateiials for a Plora of the Malayan Pettiimtla. [No, 1^ 
glalirouB externally except along the suture, broadly obtoug, blunt at 
both ends, somewhat compressed, obliquely Btrtate, attetiunted to a very 
short grooved pseudo- stalk, roay-ied when ripe, spnrsely si^llaie- hairy 
itiside ; length r25 in., breadth *85 in. ; the perkarp tliin, conaceoaa, 
glabrous ioBide. Seed narrowly oblong, blunt, witli a short arillas at 
its base. 
Perak ; Wray, No. 1858. Kinj^'s Collector, Nos. 558*5, 6517, 7519, 
6. CoNKABT^s KicoBARicufl^ King n. spec, Scandent, woody, all 
parfs except the inflorescence glabrous; young branches ivitli pale 
flniooth bark. Leaves 8 to 10 in, long; leaflets thinly coriaceous, 3 to 5, 
broadly ovate with a very short blunt apical point, the base broad and 
rounded; upper fini'face slightly ghining, tho lower duller and paler ; 
main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, faiut, curving upwards; length of lateral 
leaflets 2*75 to 4'5 in,, breadth 1*5 to 2*75 in. ; petiolules about "2-5 in,, 
tlie terminal leaflet larger. Panicles terminal (probably also axillary), 
nearly as long as the leaves, rusty-pubescsiit, the biauches sub^erect. 
X^hwers erowded near the ends of tlie branohlete, '35 in. lonw, on pedicels 
njach shorter than thenisolves, Colyat'-seffments orate, tomentoae out- 
aide, glabrous inside, about one- fourth as long as tho corolla. Petals 
linear, pubescent on both sui-faces. Stamens 10, in two rows, the 
longer row much shorter ihan the style and petals ; filaments sparsely 
pnbescerit, Kwollon near the base. Pistil as long as tlie petals ; the ovaiy 
broadly ovoid, to men tose ; style sparsely pubescent. Stigma snb-cnpitate. 
Follicle broad, snb-eompivassed, obtnse, glabrous, faintly striate longi- 
tudinally, 1'5 in, long, and nearly 1 in. broad, pubeseent inaide. 
Kioobfir Islands j King's Collectors. 
Allied to 0- griftbostt*, Wall., but with pabescent petals and Itirger follicles whioh 
are pubescent iiisido. 
7. CosNARUa GiriROSus, Wall. Gnt. 8541 (tin part). A large semi- 
Bcandeut shrub ; yonng bl anches deciduously msty-puberulons. Leaves 
6 to 9 in. long, quite glahvous ; leaflets 3 to 5, thinly coriaceous, elliptic 
or elliptic oblong, very sbortly and obtusely acuminate, the base round- 
ed ; both Burfrtcea sliining, the lower retieiilale ; main nerves 6 or 7 
pairs, spreading but curving upwards, the lower pairs very 'oblique, 
slightly proniiuent on the lower surface ; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 
1'25 to 2"5 in., pi'tiolnlea *2 to '3 in, Pamcltis axillary and terminal, 
shorter than or aa long as the leaves, many-bn\nched, m.«?ty- pubescent. 
Flowp-rs rather crowded on the short nltimate branclilets^ *25 in. long, 
on pedicels shorter then themselves, Sepah and petals aa in 0. semith- 
mwlrns, Stameiii? 10, the one row only slightly shorter than the otber. 
Ft f til longer than the stamens and petals ; the ovary ovato-rotnnd, 
rnsty-tomentofte, the style pubescent; stigma aub-oapitftte. FoUides 
