1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Pminstila. 13 
shorter tlian the flowers. Sepals broadly ovate, blunt, pubescent. Petals 
linear- oblong, broadly ovate. Stamens 10, alternately shorter than the # 
filaments, expanded towards the base and united by their edges ; ovaries 
slightly hairy on the inner side, styles glabrous. Follicles obliquely 
ovate-oblong, pointed, coriaceous, glabrous, "75 to 1 in. long, -5eec? ovate, 
covered by an oi-auge- coloured arillus. Hook. fiL Fl, Br, Ind. II, 47 ; 
Kui'z For. Flora Burma I, 324, CnesHs vi07iadelpJiaf Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 
454. Connaracea, Wall. Cat., 8547, 8548. 
An dam an and Mcobar Islands. — Disteib. Banna, Chittagong, 
Sylhet and Assam. 
Tho present species fpiabliBhed in 1850), B. pulckella, Btnmo {18S0J, and L. humitts, 
PSancli, {1S50J, differ from eacb other so Jittle that I am not sure that thoy aliould 
not be reduced to one, in which caae the epeciett might be tiained Rottred monadelf/ha^ 
the earliest pnblished name of any of them being Ciiestis monaddpha, lloxb. (1832). 
4. RouREA POLCHKLLA, Planch. in Linnaea XXIIT, 419. Scandent, 
woody, quite glabrous. Leaves 3 to 7 in. long ; leaflets 3 to 7, thinly 
ooriaoeous, ovate-lanceolate, obtusely caudate-acuminate, the upper sur- 
face very shioiug, the lower less so, both reticalate ; main nerves 4 or 5 
pairs, spreaditig, faint ; length I'5 to 3 in., breadth *75 to 1*6 in. ; petio- 
lules '15 in., slender. Bace7)ies crowded in the axils, shorter than tho 
leaves. Flowers '25 in. in diain., tho pedicels of tho same length, slender. 
S^ah broadly ovate, acute, ciliolate, half as long as tho petal h, linear- 
oblong- Pisiils 5, ovaries pilose, styles slender. Follicle stotit, ctirved, 
pointed, glabrous, "6 in. long, red when ripe. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 48. 
Malacca; Griffith, No, 1265. Maingay, No. 601 (Kew Distrib.) j 
Ridley, No. 1449, Singapore, Ridley, Nos. 2028, 3981, Perak ; Wray, 
Nos. 1167, 3774, 
5. RouREA HUMiLis, Blume Mas. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 262. Soandent, 
woody, glabrous. Leaves 3-5 to 6 in. long, the rachises slender ; leaf- 
lets 3 rarely 5, coriaceous, broadly ovate or ovate-orbicular, abruptly 
and obtusely caudate-acuraiaate, the base rounded, rarely sub-cuneate, 
upper sui'face very shining, the lower less so and more distinctly reti- 
culate; main nerves abontri pail's, spreading, faint; length 1*5 to 3 in,, 
breadth 1 to 2-25 in. petiolules about '2 in., the terminal leaflet the 
largest. Racemes axillary, clustered, slender, few-flowered ; the buds 
sab-globose, on pedicels of about their own length. Calyx-lobes aub- 
orbicnlar, glabrous. Stamens shorter than the calyx, much shorter than 
the stylus. Follicles cylindric, pointed, coriaceous, glabrous, 75 in, long, 
Nicobar Islands ; Jelinct, No. 140. Kurz, Penang ; Curtis, No. 2285. 
Pahang, Ridley, Nos. 26J;5, 5121; Singapore. Perak; King's Col- 
lector, No- 4677, Scortechini. — DiISTRIB. Sumatra, Borneo. 
DistlnguiBhed chiefly by its broadly oFftto coriaceona leaves, very shining on the 
«pper Burfaoe and witii broad ba«es. 
