1600.] O, ILing— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Feninsula, 75 
elliptic, slioi'tlj and abruptly acuminate, tlio base mucli natTOwed ; 
yellowish gi-con on the lower surface and olivaceous on the upper when 
dry ; main nerves 7-10 pail's, quite distinct on the lower surface, less 
so on the upper, curved and iutorarchiug '1 in. from the margin. Cymes 
]-3 from the axils of leaves, often unequal, proliferoasly umbellate, 
from l"5-2a in. long, always pedunculatej the peduncle and all its 
branches 4- angled, bracteolate at the divisions, sparsely and deciduously 
rusty- pubescent. Floiverg densely clustered at the apices of th© 
thickened seconriary peduncles, petlicellatc ; the pedicels with numerous 
sharply acuminate bracteoles at their bases. Calyx-tube eampanulate, 
much narrowed at tlie base, tlio mouth i-atfier more than '05 iu. wide, 
truncate but with 4 minute, acicular teeth. Friut globular, 'Jo in. in 
diam, (unripe). M. grande, Retz., var, puhescens, Clarke in Hook, fih 
Fh Br. Ind. II, 558; Cogo. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 1153. 
Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) 2336. PfinAK,- King's Collector 
6089, 10700. StNGAPORE ; Ridley 10390. 
Ripe fmit of this is uttknowti. 
5. llEjiecYLON DicHOTOMUM, C. B, Clarko in Herb. Kew. A 
slender slu'ub, 6-8 feet high ; young branches slender, acutely -i-angled 
(even 4-winged) below the slightly thickened nodes ; the bark pale- 
brown. Leaves thinly coriaceous, almost sessile, lanceolate to ovate- 
lanceolate, much acuminate, often caudate i the base rounded or slightly 
narrowed ; main nerves 6-8 paij'S, curved, into lurching rather far 
from the margin, often indistinct ; length 2 '5-4 io. ] breadth 1-2 in. j 
petiole very short (under '05 in.). Cymes 2-5-floweredj solitary, 
axillaiy and terminal; peduncles very short, 4'angled; pedicels with 
two ovate, acute bracteoles at their apices embracing the calyx. Oalyx^ 
tube eampanulate, taperiug to the base (obconical) ; minutely glandular 
outside when dry, the mouth with 4 broad, shallow lobes when young, 
trniicate and almost entire wben old j buda rather large, conical. 
Fruit globular, crowned by the naiTOw calyx-limb, smooth when ripe, 
about "5 in. iu diam. M, elegansj var. dichotomaf C. B. Clarke in 
Hook, fih Fl. Br. Ind. II, 554; Cogn. in DO. Mon. Phan. VII, 1138. 
Malacca ; GrifUh (Kew Diatrib.J 2321 ; Maingay (K.D.) 818, 820. 
Pebak ; Wray 2989 ; King's Collector' 3239, 5036, 5297, 10783. Pahan^ j 
Eidley 2609. 
I restore for thia sp&ciea the MS. narao originally gireu to ife by Mr. C. B, 
Olarke in the Kew Herbarium. Mr. Clai-ke subseqaently reduced it, as a variety, to 
Jf, elegans, Kur^, of wbich tliore were, at the time ho mado the rcducUon, no good 
Bpeoimana. Now that there aro escellout oxampiea of M. elegans, it is clear that 
if. diehoiomum ie not ocai^ thab apecica. 
There are specimena in the Calcutta Herhariiim of what appear to he other Bpecies 
allied to ihie. But the material of all Is imperfect aud X deaoribe none of them. 
