1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 73 
Perak : King’s Collector, No. 8673, Scortechini. Distrib. W. Sumatra, 
Poi'bes, No. 2105 : Java, Burmah ; Wallich. 
There is no doubt this comes very close to 8. colorata, Roxb. of 
which it might possibly be better to treat it as a variety characterised 
by larger flowers, with much more exsorted staminal column, larger 
leaves, thinner and dark-coloured branchlets. Wallich, however, who 
saw the tree growing, regarded it as a species; and Robert Brown (PL 
Jav. Rar. p. 235), while treating it as a variety of colorata, remarks 
that it is probably worthy of specific rank. This plant (whether species 
or variety) is never found in British India proper. Its most northerly 
limit is Tenasserim, and from thence it extends southward into the 
Malayan Archipelago. In the Flora of British India, Dr. Masters gives 
the distribution of this as “ Tropical Western Himalayan.” The plant, 
however, which occurs in tropical valleys in that region is just as 
different from S.fulgens, Wall., as that is from 8. colorata, Roxb. It is 
the tree to which Wallich gave the name 8. fallens; and which he 
published (without describing) in Voigt’s Hort. Suburb, Calcutta, p. 
105. The leaves of 8. pattens resemble those of colorata in shape ; but 
their under surface is covered with dense pale yellow stellate tomentum. 
The calyx has a much wider mouth than that of colorata, and (like the 
axis and pedicels of the panicle) is densely covered with a very pale 
yellow tomentum, while the tomentum of colorata is of a vivid coral red. 
8. pallens is confined to the Western Himalaya, just as 8. fulgens is 
limited to Burmah and Malaya. 
17. S. alata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50. A tree 80 to 150 feet high ; 
young branches rather stout, striate, glabrous. Leaves membranous, 
broadly ovate or ovate-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, entire ; the 
base deeply cordate, 5 to 7-nerved, some of the basal nerves pinnate on 
one side ; both surfaces glabrous ; lateral nerves 4 pairs, prominent on 
both surfaces as are the midrib and basal nerves; length 4 to 12 in., 
breadth 3 to 8 in., petiole 1*5 to 7 in. : stipules minute, subulate, cadu- 
cous. Racemes from the axils of previous year’s fallen leaves, usually 
in pairs, sometimes solitary, rarely terminal, about as long as the 
petioles, flocculent, rusty-tomentose, as are the flowers externally; bracts 
3 to each flower, ensiform, caducous. Calyx '75 in. long, campanulate, 
deeply divided into 5 or 6 thick, fleshy, lanceolate segments. Male 
flower; staminal column thin, cylindrio, much shorter than the calyx, 
glabrous, bearing at its apex 25 elongate anthers in five groups of 5 
each ; ovaries imperfect. Female flower ; staminodes in 5 phalanges, 
sessile, embracing the bases of the 5 sub-ovate, multi-ovulate-ovaries ; 
stigmas broad, emarginate. Follicles pedunculate, woody, pulverulent. 
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