]900,] Q. Kmg—Mat&riuU for a Flora of the Malayan Penimula. 7 
Nat, Ser, 3, XI 11, pp. 283 to 293 ; shoDld be reduced here. It in not witliotit 
reluotanoo that I give fonr varieties as follows : — 
Vau. 1. polyatUha, Beiith. Fl, Aiist. Ill, 292. Bracts of infloi-ea- 
ceuca small ami vmy early deciduous or altogether absent ; teeth of 
calyx usually abort ; leavi^s not oxcoeding 2'5 in, in length, polyati- 
thnm, Blume m Flora for 1831, 480 ; Mub. Bot. T, 52, t. 6 ; Naudiu in 
Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser 3, Xllf, 2S7 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 502 ; 
Triaua in Linn. Trans. XXVII, 59 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fll. Fl. Br. 
Jtid. Ill, 523. brachyodon, Naud. I.e. 292 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. I, 
570, t. 8, fig. A, 3f. malahathHcum^ Desr. in Lam. Enoyo. Bot. lY^ 36 ; 
III. Gen. tab. 361, f . 1 ; Jack in Linn, Ti-tina. XIV, 4, %. 1, a to^ ; 
Poii\ Diet. IV, 37 j Bl. Bijdr. 1070. M. erecta, Jack I.e. 5 ; DC. Prodr. 
Ill, 145. M. iidorense, Bl in Flora J 831, p. 482, Miq. Lc. 514. 
M. Rorjejin^ Bl. Lc. 483. AT. imdaneme, BL Mus. Bot. I, 54. if. Horn- 
broidanum, M, oLiganthum and M. microphyllumt Naad. lc. 278, 292 
and 2t»3. 
Andamans ; King*s Ooltectar. Singapohe ; Anderso^t, King, Malacca ; 
King. Fenakg ; C«rit>, King. DiSTttiB. Burma, N. China, Suniatra, 
Java and other islands in the Malay Archipelago, IjtiKoii,N. Australia. 
Var. 2. adprensa, C. B, Clarke in Hook, lil. FL Br. Ind. II, 523. 
Leavea narrowly obloiig- lanceolate, smaller than in the typical -phut and 
with harsber pabescenco. If. adpressum, Beiitb. in Wall. Cat. 4081, 
Naud. I.e. XIII, 27 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 349. M. anophan- 
tkuni, Nfiud. I.e. 277. 
Malacca j Mauigay 771 to 773 in Herb., Eew. Penanq i Wallichf 
King, Curiis. Pkovinoe Wellesljet ; Ourtis, 
This ia Rcnrely worthy of separation ns a variety. It ia slightly smaller and more 
atrlgoBe thw\ the type ntid differs from vab. poiydTiffmrn, ao far as I can see, oujy by 
the large aize ef ihe bracta of the iiifloreeceiico. 
Vab. 3. norjnalis^ King. Haira of both Barfaces very numerous, those 
of the upper aab-ad pressed, of the lower en b-gpreading-, softer (almost 
silky ) ; calyx-teeth long, adpressed hairy within. M, 7i(irmah^ Don 
Prodr. FL Nep. 220 ; DO. Prodr. Ill, 145 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, 
XIII, 289 ; Kurz, For. Flora I, 604 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook* fih PL Br. 
Itid. II, 524 ; Triana in DC. Mon. Phan. VIII, 352. M. WaUichii, DC. 
I.e. 146. M. napalsiise, jLodd. Cot, Cab. t. 707. M. pelagicvmt^ Nand. 
Lc, 279. M. longifoUum, Naud. Lc. 29^. 
In most of the provinces. 
Vab. 4, pei^akemis^ King. Leaves more or leas broadly elliptio, 
5- to 7*nerved, the upper surfaces strigose (sometimes nearly glabrous 
in old specimens), the lower softly and rather densely pubescent- 
branches, petioles and pedicels with long, spreading, mther soft hairs; 
calyx-tube densely clothed with long, flexnose, soft, often ciliafce setae. 
