1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 51 
smooth pyramidal spines, 5-valved. Seeds few, large, with copious suc- 
culent arillus. Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 351, and Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xiv. 501 ; Beceari Malesia, iii. 230, t. xii. f. 1 to 5, xxxvi. f. 1 to 12 ; 
Kurz For. FI. Burm. i. 131 ; DO. Prod. i. 480 ; Bl. Bijdr. 81 ; Koen. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 266, t. 14 — 16; Roxb. FI. Ind iii. 399. Miq. FI. 
Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 167. Griff. Not. iv. 528 ; Ic. t. 596. Wall. Cat. 1842. 
— Rumph. Arab, i, 99, t. 29. 
In all the provinces except probably the Nicobars, cultivated, 
Distrib. Malayan Archipelago. 
2. D. LowianOS, Scortechini MSS. A tree 50 to 60 feet high j 
young branchlets and petioles and lower surface of midrib with rather 
large loose scales. Leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate ; 
the base rounded, not attenuate; upper surface glabrous, the midrib 
puberulous, lower quite covered with adpressed scales, mostly minute, 
but a few larger and loose ; main nerves 14 to 18 pairs, faint, sub-horizon- 
tal; length 4'5 to 55 in., breadth 15 to 2 in.; petiole *5 in. stout. 
Cymes crowded on small tubercles on branches several years old, tricho- 
tomous, 3 in. in diam. and about as long. Flower-pedicels '5 to '75 in. 
long, angled, covered with loose coppery scales. Flowers 2 in. in diam. ; 
bracts 2 or 3, '5 in. long, broadly ovate, connate, deciduous. Calyx cam- 
panulate, its base sub-inflated, '75 in. long, its mouth with 3 broad 
blunt, shallow teeth, glabrous inside, covered with largo silvery scales 
outside. Petals 5, oblauceolate, glabrous inside, pubescent outside, 
1'25 in. long. Stamens in 5 phalanges, dividing shortly above the base 
into about 8 processes each dividing at its apex into several short fila- 
ments, each bearing a single reniform anther with marginal dehiscence. 
Ovary broadly ovoid, densely covered with large loose scales, 5-celled 
with 4 ovules in each, biseriate. Style cylindric, tapering, pubescent : 
stigma capitate. Fruit unknown. 
Perak. Scortechini No. 1969. 
A species collected only once, and named by the late lamented 
Father Scortechini in honour of Sir Hugh Low, representative of the 
British Government at Perak, and to whose enlightened help Malayan 
Botany owes very much. The species approaches D. Zibethinus in many 
respects. 
3. D. malaccensis, Planch. MSS. Mast, in Hook. fil. El. Br. Ind. 
i. 351. A tree ; the young branches thin, very minutely adpressed* 
scaly. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate with acute apices ; the base acute, some- 
times slightly rounded ; main nerves about 20 pairs, thin, almost 
horizontal ; both surfaces shining, the upper glabrous, the lower Very 
