1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 77 
leaves, many-flowered. Calyx '5 in. long, glabrous, narrowly tubular 
below, the mouth slightly expanded and with 5 ovate-lanceolate lobes 
shorter than the tube. Staminal column pilose; anthers in a ring. 
Ovaries 5 ; styles indexed, cohering by their tips. Follicles 5, from 
2 to 3 in. long and 1 in. broad, on tomentose stalks, oblong, acute, 
dilated at the base. Seed ovoid. 
Malacca, Maingay. 
At once distinguished by the singular calyx, tubular in its lower, 
lobed and spreading in its upper, half. 
2. Tareietu, Blume. 
Tall trees. Leaves digitate or simple, glabrous or scaly. Flowers 
unisexual, panicled. Calyx tubular, small, 5-toothed. Petals 0. 
Staminal-column short, bearing a ring of 10-15 very densely clustered 
anthers, cells parallel. Ovary of 3-5 nearly free carpels opposite the 
sepals ; styles as many, short, filiform, stigmatose within ; ovules 1 
in each cell. Pipe carpels of stellately spreading samaras with long 
falcate wings. Seeds oblong ; albumen bipartible ; cotyledons flat ; 
radicle next the hilum. — Distrib. Known species 5 or 6, Australian 
and Malayan, 
Leaves digitately compound. 
Under-surface of leaflets persistently 
stellate-tomentose 
Under-surface deciduously tomentose, 
the hairs simple ... ... 
Leaves simple. 
Fruit glabrous ... ... 
,, tomentose. ... 
1. T. PeraJcensis. 
2. T. Penangiana. 
3. T. simplicifolia. 
4. T. Kunstleri. 
1. T. Peeakensis, King, n. sp. A tree 40 to 60 feet high : young 
branches, petioles, petiolules, under surface of leaves ( when young) and 
inflorescence with minute deciduous rusty tomentum. Leaves digitately 
compound ; leaflets 5 or 6, the lower smaller, obovate-elliptic to obovate- 
rotund, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, the edges entire, slightly 
wavy ; the base narrowed ; upper surface minutely areolate, glabrous 
except the very minutely tomentose midrib and nerves ; lower glabrous 
except the midrib : main nerves 10 to 14 pairs, stout and prominent 
beneath : length of the middle leaflet 4 5 to 5'5 in., of the lower 2 to 
3 5 in. : breadth of the middle 2 to 3 in., of the lower 125 to L5 in. ; 
petiolules "5 to 1 in.; petioles ’3 to 45 in. Inflorescence in solitary, 
axillary, cymose racemes or panicles more than half as long as the 
