1896.] G. King — Maleriah for a Flora of tJie Mala^fan Pmiimda^ 17 
slightly narrowed and somewhat oblique at the very bnse ; botb. ant-faces 
gltibrons, minntely reticulate when dry ; main nerves 10-12 paira, 
spreading, cui-ving upwards, sHghUy prominent beneath ; length 6-9 in., 
breadth 2-75-3*5 in,, petiole "5- "75 in, Ghmernli axillary, large and 
many-iflowered ; buda sub-globular, glabrous; pedicels about '25 in, loug 
glabrous, tlie braateolos minute. Oahjx-segmenfs ovate, glabrous ; 
ataminal tube wide, nearly glabrous, adherent below to the sepals ; 
filaments 10, as long as tKc tube and as the alternating villous stami- 
nodcs, Omrjj elongate-pyramidg^l, S-angled, stigma capitate ; fruit un- 
known , 
Anuau AN Islands ; King*s CoUedors, 
5. Casearu esculknta, Roxb. Flor. Ind. II, 422. A shrub or 
small tree as tigb as 20 or ^10 feet ; yoang- branches pale, striate when 
dry» glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to elliptic- 
lanceolate, a<^ute at the apex and acute or obHf|ue!y rounded at the 
base, the edges entire j botb surfaces reticulate ; main nerves 6-8 pairs, 
spreading, not prominent; length 3-7 in., breadth l'5-2-25 in,, petiole 
*2o iiu Griomemlt axillary, many-flowered; buds and pedicels glabroue» 
the latter •2-"25 in. long; bractooles very Bhorf, glabrous. Calyx-Ueth 
4, hi-oadly ovate, concave. Stammtg 8, alkemating with the staminodes. 
Eipe fruit ellippoid to globular- ovate, glabrous, dcliiacing by 2 or 5 
valves, length '75 in, or more. Clarke iu Flor, Br. lud. II, 592. 
0. Imiigata, Dalss, in Hook. Journ. Bot. lY, 107; Dal?,. & Gibs. Bomb, 
Flor, II. 0. OJtampiami and 0. i^q/lanim, Thwaitcs, Eoum. PI. Ceylon, 
19. 0. varians, Tbwaites Enum. 19 (in part). 
SiNOAmnE; Lohb, Gnjifith^ Matngay { Kew Distrih.) 657, 
Perak; Bidletf 5218; Scarteckmi 804; King's Collector 7001. 
A widely diatribated spBciea preacnting a oonaiderablo n mount of variafcion, 
Perak Bpectmens liave larger luaves tliati tliOKO from BritiBh India j but they appear 
to hftve amivUer fraita ; for Eoicbnrgh dcacribes tha frait of the plant, as it grows 
in the Northern Ci rears, as beiog aa largo ae a n a tin eg, 
6. Casbarla KDNSTLEat, King n. spec. A tree 30-80 feet high ; 
young branches pale, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly oblong, 
tapering slightly to each end, the edges entii'e ; both surfaces glab- 
rous and minutely reticulate ; the upper sliining, the lower rather 
dull ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, ascending and only slightly curved, 
prominent on the lower surface ; length 5-7 in., breadth 1-5-2 in, ; 
petiole -25 in , stout Qhmeruli mostly in the axils of fallen leaves, 
many-flowered ; pedicels stout, glabrous •35-'45 in. long; buds "15 in. 
long, blunt. Galyx 5-cleft, the segments broadly ovate, obtuse, conoare, 
tninntely pubescent. Stauim^ 10, broad, sub-acute, the filaments broad, 
pointed, their edges pubescent, Siaminodes elliptic, tJieir apices acute and 
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