1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 55 
1. B. Griffithii, Masters in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 352. A tree 
40 to 60 feet high ; young branches rather slender, pale, minutely 
furfuraceous. Leaves oblong, or elliptic-oblong, or obovate-oblong, 
shortly and abruptly acuminate, slightly narrowed towards the rounded 
base ; upper surface quite glabrous ; the lower pale, very minutely pu- 
bescent, the midrib and nerves slightly scaly; main nerves 8 to 11 pairs, 
spreading, prominent beneath and dark coloured; length 5 to 6'5 in., 
breadth P5 to 2 25. in., petiole - 4 to '6 in. : stipules linear, deciduous. 
Flowers '75 in. in diam., solitary, or in 2 to 3-flowered cymes from the 
axils of leaves or of fallen leaves ; pedicels shorter than the petioles, 
bracteolate. Involucral bracts 2, broadly-ovate, blunt, connate at the 
base, closely enveloping the buds ; scaly externally, glabrous within. 
Sepals 4, ovate, spreading, pnbescent on both surfaces, scaly also on the 
outer. Petals 4 to 8, nearly twice as long as sepals, linear or linear- 
spathulate, 1 in. broad. Stamens very numerous, unequal, slightly 
united by the bases of the filaments : the outer without anthers, some 
flat resembling the petals, a few of the inner longer and bearing at 
their apices 1 to 4 oblong obovoid anthers which dehisce by an apical 
pore. Ovary ovoid, 3-celled, densely covered with peltate, fimbriate, 
long-stalked scales. Style as long as the longest stamens. Stigma sub- 
capitate. Fruit oblong, pointed at each end, l - 5 to 2 in. long, densely 
covered with sharp stout conical spines, 3-celled, dehiscent. Seeds 3 to 
6, or fewer. Mast, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. t. xv, fig. 29 to 39, t. xvi., 
fig. 40 to 42. Beccari Malesia III-, p. 256. Heteropyxis, Griff. Not. iv. 
524 ; Ic. PI. As. t. 594. 
Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay. Perak, very common. Distrib. 
Sumatra, Forbes, No. 3068. 
10. Neesia, Blume. 
Trees. Branches marked with large leaf-scars. Leaves entire, 
pinnate-veined. Stipules leafy. Cymes from the stem in the axils of 
the fallen leaves. Bracteoles 3, connate into a cup, deciduous, covered, 
like the sepals, with peltate scales. Calyx ventricose, conical above, 
opening by a circular irregularly crenulate orifice at the top, ultimately 
dilated and cushion-shaped at the base. Petals 5, free, imbricate. 
Stamens numerous, the filaments more or less united ; anthers 2-celled, 
opening lengthwise, connective thick ; staminodes 0. Ovary oblong, 
5-celled; style short; stigma capitate; ovules numerous, 2-seriato, 
horizontal, anatropous. Fruit ovoid, woody, muricate, loculicidally 5- 
valved. Seeds albuminous ; aril 0 ; cotyledons flat, leafy. Distrib. 
Seven species, all Malayan. 
