50 G. King — Mat&t-^ials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninstda. [No. I, 
or oblong- el liptiCi the apes blunt or stortly apicnlate, tbe base rounded, 
the edges entire and recurved when drj ; both sarfaces quite glabroas, 
not reticulate ; main nerves 6-9 pairs, slightly proraiiaenti on the lower 
enrface; length 9-13 in., breadth 4-(> in,; petioitiles unequal, 2*5-5 in, 
long. Fanich terminal, dividing into several narrow racerae-like 
branches, 10-20 inches long:, covered wifcb pale scnr'fy tomentom ; tbe 
branch lets 40 or 50 in nomber and "35 to '75 in, long, each with a 
broadly ovate convolute wooly bmct at its bflse, and at its apei: a denae 
globnlar umbel o£ sub-globular flowers '1 in. in diam, and born© on 
pedicels "05 in. long. Calyx truncate, taperirjg to the base. Petah 6 or 7, 
narrowly lanceolfite. Stigmas free^ ovary 5-celled» Fruit unknown. 
Perak ; Scortechini 2008. 
CoUoctod only hy tho kto Father Scortechini, whose Bpedtnens nnfortnnatoTy 
are scfinty and rather fiHgTnentnry, A rery distinct speciea, in gpnernl nppearfimco 
resembling 3. Cpphototcs, Clarke and H. ri<jiiiwm, St'era. The leafleta of the 
latter have however twice aa many nidn lateral nerveB, although their length 
is not greater. 
7, Heptapleubitm tomentobuk, Hasak. in Cat. Hort, BoL Eogor, 
(1844), p. 165. A half-acandent shrub, 6-8 in. high j the young branches 
fltout, deciduouslj stellate -pubescent, the older glabrous. Leaves digitate ; 
the common petiole 9*12 in, long-, d^naolj covered with rnsty stellate 
tomcntum, the intra-petiolar stipules about *75 in. long. Jieajhta 5-7, 
coriaceouH, ohlong-elliptic, caudate- acuminate, slightly nan*owed to tho 
base, the edges entire and slightly revolute Lhe upper surftico boldly 
ballate and finely reticulate, quite glabmna, pale olivaceous when dry ; 
the lower pale brown, more or less closely covered with pale brown 
stellate hairs; length 8-10 in., breadth 2'75-3'5 in.; petiolules unequal, 
l'5-2'5 in, long, tomentose. Fankks usaally two together, terminah 
4-5 in. long, racemose; tbe lateral branches about 12, short, '2-4 in. long, 
each bearing asub-glohular umbel of 8-10, ovoid, blunt, f^labi-oua flowers 
'15 in. long; their pedicels "1 in. long, pubescent, Calyx-ttihe funnel- 
shaped, the rim narrow. Petals 5, white, glabrous, ealyptrnte. Stamens 
longer than the petah. Stifles 5, conjoined, papilliform, their apices 
free. Fruit *2 in. long, narrowly oblong, 5-ridged, 5-celled, ScmdophijUmn 
tomentosim, Blurae Bijdr. 87 7 j BO. Prod. IV, 260. Pamtmpia 
tometitosaf Miq, in Bonplandia for 1856, p, 138; Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 
753; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 23, 
Perak ; Seortecht7i}\ Wnnj 2'102, 3152 ; King's Collector 2066, 2216» 
2569, 7253, 8733. SELANaoRi Curtis 2341. Distrib, Suraatm; Forbes, 
261L 
I have Bean no authentioally-named specimen of thit from the Leiden Eerba- 
s-ium, but the Porak plant ngreea so completely with MiqnBl'B deBcriplion that I 
bare no doabt of the correctneaa of my identificatioa. 
