JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
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Vol. LXXIV., Part Extra Number, 1905. 
Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. — By Sir George 
King, K.C.I.E., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., late Superintendent of the 
Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, and J. Sykes Gamble, Esq., 
C.I.E., M.A., P.E.S., I.L.S., late of the Indian Forest Department . 
No. 17. 
This contribution embraces the Natural Orders Myrsinacea, Sapo- 
tacece, Ebenacece, Styracece, Oleacece, which are given under the joint 
names of the authors, the actual descriptions having been prepared by 
Sir George King for the Ebenacece and by Mr. J. S. Gamble for 
the rest. 
The 5 Natural Orders comprise 24 genera and 221 species. There 
are no new genera, but the number of new species reaches 103. 
Order LXX. MYBSINACE2E. 
Trees, shrubs (erect or climbing), or undershrubs, generally ever- 
green. Leaves usually alternate, sometimes opposite, entire dentate or 
creuate, often dotted with pellucid round or linear resinous glands. 
Stipules none. Flowers regular, usually small, white or reddish ; 
hermaphrodite or occasionally polygamo-dioecious ; generally in 
panicles, racemes or umbels. Calyx inferior (in Mcesa adnate to the 
ovary), 4-6-lobed, the lobes valvate or imbricate, sometimes enlarged 
m fruit, persistent, often marked with glandular dots or lines. Corolla 
4-5-lobed ; the tube usually very short, sometimes wanting ; lobes 
twisted to the left in the bud, 'usually overlapping to the right, rarely 
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