82 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
Bi jdr. 79 ; Pierre PI. Forest. Coch-Chine, t. 208, figs. 12 to 25 ; DC. 
Prodr. i. 475 ; Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 143 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 60; Wight Ic. 
t. 180; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 169; Kurz For. FI. Burm. i. 142 ; 
Brand. For. Flor. 34. H. chrysoealyx, Miq. in PI. Hohen. Isora cory- 
lifolia, Wight, Hassk. in Tijds. Nat. Gesch. xii. 107. 
Perak ; and probably in all the provinces. Distrib. Brit. India. 
2. H. htrsxtta, Lour. FI. Coch-Chine, 648. A shrub 6 or 8 feet 
high ; the young branches velvetty-tomentose. Leaves ovate, or ovate - 
rhomboid, sub-oblique (oblong to oblong-lanceolate in vars.) acuminate, 
irregularly erose-serrate ; the base sub-truncate or rounded, rarely sub- 
emarginate ; upper surface scabrid-pubescent, the midrib and nerves 
tomentose ; lower velvetty-tomentose ; nerves 4 or 5 pairs, prominent 
beneath ; length 3'5 to 6 in., breadth 1*75 to 2‘5 in. ; petiole "4 in.> 
tomentose. Cymes scorpioid, few-flowered, axillary, solitary, twice as 
long as the petiole. Flowers ‘75 in. long. Calyx narrowly cylindric- 
campanulate, coarsely stellate-tomentose externally, the mouth with 5 
acute unequal teeth. Petals linear, sub-spathulate, two rather broader 
than the others with slight horn-like appendages about the middle and 
all longer than the calyx and about as long as the stamens. Staminal 
column and pistils as in H. Isora. Fruit cylindric, acuminate, not 
twisted, the carpels firmly coherent ; externally densely covered by long 
villous and stellately pilose soft prickles, 1’2 in. long and ‘35 in. in 
diam. Pierre FI. Forest. Coch-Chine, t. 208, figs. 1 to 11 ; Kurz For. 
FI. Burm. i. 143. E. hirsuta, Bl, Bijdr. 80. E. spicata, Colebr. in Wall. 
Cat. 1182 ; Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 366 ; Oudemansia hirsuta, 
Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 171 ; Hassk. Retzia, i. p. 184 ; Orthothecium 
hirsutv/m, Hassk. PI. Jav. Bar. 308. 
Selangore, King’s Collector. Penang, Curtis ; and probably in the 
other provinces at low elevations. Distrib. Malayan Archipelago, 
China, Brit. India. 
Yar. oblonga, (species Wall. Cat. 1183). Leaves oblong, 5 or 6 
in. long and 1'35 to 1'75 in. broad, sparsely stellate-tomentose beneath. 
Penang, Andamans. 
Var. vestita, (species Wall. Cat. 1844). Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 
oblique at the base ; 3‘5 to 5'5 in. long and 1 to 1'5 in. broad. 
Burmah : ? Andamans. 
There seems to be little doubt that Loureiro and Blume indepen- 
dently of each other gave this species the same specific name. Wallich’s 
distribution of it under Colebroke’s MSS. name spicata took place many 
years subsequently, and that name must (although adopted by Dr. 
Masters) 1 thiuk fall to the ground. 
