1891.] G. King— Materials ] or a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 83 
3. H. ANfiUSTlFoUA, L. sp. 1366. A shrub 4 to 6 feet high : young 
branches, petioles, under surfaces of leaves and peduncles minutely and 
more or less densely pubescent. Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute 
(or obtuse and mucronate in var. obtusa) ; entire ; the base narrowed 
3-nerved ; upper surface glabrescent or glabrous ; lateral nerves 5 or 6 
pairs, not prominent; length 1'5 to 2 in., breadth '4 to - 8 in., petiole 
2 to "3 in. Cymes axillary, solitary, not much longer than the petioles, 
few- flowered. Flower's '4 or '5 in. long. Calyx densely stellate-tomen- 
tose externally, cylindric, the mouth slightly expanded, with 5 acute 
triangular teeth, 2-lipped. Petals longer than the calyx, linear-sub- 
spathulate, with 2 or 3 horned appendages below the middle. Staminal 
column shorter than the petals, narrowly cylindric and otherwise as in 
H. Isora, the stamens smaller. Ovary inserted near the apex of the 
staminal tube, sub-globular, ridged, tomentose. Fruit ovoid-cylindric, 
apiculate, not twisted, the carpels closely coherent, 75 in. long aud 
•4 in. in diatn., densely covert d with stellate, villous soft prickles as in 
H. hlrsuta. DC. Prodr. i. 470 ; Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. LSr. Ind. i. 365 ; 
Bl. Bijdr. 80; Pierre FI. Forest. Coeh-Chine, t. 210 and 211; Wall. 
Cat. 1180. H. lanceolata, DC. Prodr. i. 476; Pierre, 1. c. 210 B. 
H. virgata, Wall. Cat. 1181. Oudemansia integerrima, Miq. PI. Jungh. 
i. 296 ; FI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 170. Oud. Javensis, Hassk. Retzia, i. 131. 
Orthotheoium Javense, Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 307. 
Malayan Archipelago, China. 
Var. obtusa, (species Wall. Cat. 1184) ; Pierre, 1. c. 211 B, 14 to 25. 
Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. Beng. 1873, pt. ii. 62. Leaves obtuse, 
mucronate. 
Perak ; Nicobar Islands. 
6. Pterospermum, Schreb. 
Trees or shrubs, scaly or stellate-tomentose. Leaves usually bifari- 
ous, leathery, oblique, simple or lobed, penninerved. Peduncles 1-3, 
axillary and terminal. Bracleoles entire, laciniate, persistent or cadu- 
cous. Calyx of 5 valvate, coriaceous, more or less connate, sepals. 
Petals 5, imbricate, membranous, deciduous with the calyx. Staminal 
column short, bearing opposite to the sepals 3 linear 2-celled anthers, 
and opposite to the petals 5 ligulate staminodes ; cells parallel ; connec- 
tive apiculate. Ovary inserted within the top of the staminal column, 
3-5 celled ; style entire, stigma 5-furrowed ; ovules many in each cell. 
Capsule woody or coriaceous, terete or angled, loculicidally 5-valved. 
Seeds winged above, attached in two rows to the iuner angle of the cells 
of the capsule ; albumen thin or 0 ; cotyledons plaited or corrugated. 
