56 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
N. synandra, Mast. in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 352. A tree 70 to 
100 feet high ; young branches stout, their bark dark lenticellate and with 
large cicatrices. Leaves large, crowded near the apices of the branches, 
coriaceous, oblong-elliptic to obovate-elliptic : the apex rounded, emar- 
ginate; the edges sub-undulate, slightly narrowed in the lower third to 
the sub-cordate base ; upper surface glabrous, lower puberulous ; nerves 
13 to 22 pairs, spreading, stout and distinct on both surfaces, the reti- 
culations also distinct ; length 7 to 16 in., breadth 3'5 to 8 in. ; petiole 
1'5 to 3 in., thickened at base and apex ; stipules foliaceous, with very 
stout midribs, 1 "5 to 2‘5 in. long. Cymes short (1'5 in. long), crowded, 
dichotomous, 8 to 12-flowered, from the axils of sub-apical fallen leaves ; 
the pedicels short, scaly. Flowers about 'G in. long. Bracts connate into 
a 3-lobed cup surrounding the base of the flowers. Calyx ventricose 
with a contracted irregularly and minutely toothed mouth, densely 
pubescent inside, scaly outside as are the bracts, ultimately involute so 
as to form an annular cushion '5 in. or more in diam. Petals 5, free, 
much imbricate, ovate-lanceolate, glabrous. Stamens numerous, the 
filaments more or less connate at the base, unequal ; anthers sub-globu- 
lar, 2-celled. Ovary conical, sessile, densely pilose, not scaly : style 
slightly longer than the ovary ; stigma capitate, 5-angled. Fruit 6 to 
8 in. long and 4 to 5 in. in diam., ovoid-conic, pedunculate, with 5 bold 
rounded vertical angles : the pericarp very thick, woody, externally 
covered with stout pyramidal sharp spines, internally lined with a 
dense layer of stiff yellow hair; 5-celled, dehiscent. Mast, in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 504. Beccari Malesia, iii. 263. 
Malacca, Maingay. Perak ; Scortecliini, Wray, King’s Collector. 
I have seen no specimens of the plant ( N . altissima ) on which 
Blume founded this genus. But, judging from his admirable description 
and fine coloured figure (Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. xvii. 83, t. vi), this species 
must be very closely allied to that. I find the stamens of this agree 
both with Blume’s description above referred to, and with Sig. Beccari’s, 
in his admirable and splendidly illustrated monograph in Malesia iii. 
pp. 258 to 268. Ripe fruit and seeds of this are as yet unknown. 
11. Ccelosteoia, Benth, 
Tall trees. Leaves simple, entire, scaly beneath. Flowers small 
(scarcely '25 in. in diam.), cymose ; the inflorescence, bracts and calyx 
scaly. Bracts connate into a toothed cup. Calyx with constricted tube, 
pouched above and constricted at the apex into 5 connivent lobes. 
Petals 5, free, inserted near the apex of the calyx tube, connivent. 
Stamens numerous ; the filaments short, thick, slightly connate at the 
base, the apex constricted ; the anthers globose, 3 to 4-celled. Ovary 
