1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 47 
distantly snb-crenate ; both surfaces minutely and sparsely stellate-pub- 
escent, glabrescent when old, harsh ; length and breadth 2 to 6 in., 
petiole less than half as long as the blade. Flowers in stout few- 
flowered terminal racemes longer than the leaves ; peduncles stout, very 
rugulose, ebracteate, '75 to 1'5 in. long. Involucres combined into a 
bluntly-lobed cup much shorter than the calyx. Sepals oblong-lanceo- 
late, 1’5 in, long, coriaceous, united for half their length or more. 
Petals membranous, spathulate, 4 in. long, glabrous inside, boldly 
striate and hispid-pubescent extornally. Staminal-tube stellate-pub- 
escent. Capsule obovoid, truncate, shorter than the persistent close- 
ly adherent calyx, densely stellate-pubescent and very rugulose, 5- 
valved, dehiscing only at the apex. Seeds numerous, obovate, sub- 
compressed, with shortly pilose angles, the rest of the surface scaly. 
Mount Ophir, Malacca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 216. Perak ; 
King’s Collector 7024. 
I have not been able to detect stipules on any of the specimens 
1 have seen. They are probably fugacious. 
5. Thespesia, Corr. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves entire. Inflorescence axillary. Bracteoles 
5-8, arising from the thickened end of the peduncle, deciduous. Calyx 
cup-shaped, truncate, minutely 5-toothed. Corolla convolute. Staminal- 
tube 5-toothed at the apex. Ovary 4-5-celled ; stylo club-shaped, 5- 
furrowed, entire or 5-toothed ; ovules few in each cell. Capsule loculi- 
cidal or scarcely dehiscent. Seeds tomentose ; cotyledons conduplicate, 
black-dotted. — Natives of tropical Asia, Madagascar, and Australasia ; 
species about 6. 
T. populnea, Corr. in Ann. Mus. ix. p. 290. A tree 20 to 30 feet 
high, young shoots scaly. Leaves on long petioles, sub-coriaceous, 
broadly cordate, acuminate, entire, glabrous above, sparsely scaly on 
lower surface ; the base 5 to 7-nerved with a glandular pore between 
the nerves ; length 4'5 to 6 in., breadth 3 to 4 in. petiole 2'5 in. Flowers 
2 to 3 in. in diam., solitary, axillary, on peduncles shorter than the 
petioles ; petals bright yellow with a brown spot at the base ; bracteoles 
close to the calyx, lanceolate, often abortive. Capsule 1 to 1'5 in. in diam., 
depressed-spheroidal, scaly, becoming glabrescent ; pericarp of 2 layers. 
Seeds 1 to 3 in each cell, reniform, minntely tomentose or mealy. Mast, 
in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 345 ; Kurz For. FI. Burm. i. 128 ; Miq. FI. 
Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 150; Pierre FI. For. Coch-Chine x. 173; Bl. Bijdr. 
73; Cav. Diss. iii. 152, t. 56, f. 1 ; DC. Prodr. i. 456; W. & A. Prodr. 
i. 54; Wight Ic. t. 8; Thwaites Enum. 27; Beddome FI. Sylvat. t. 63; 
