1891.] Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 85 
40 to 50 feet high : young branches slender, almost black when dry ; 
when very young covered by deciduous furfuraceous rufous stellate 
hairs. Leaves thinly coriaceous, very inequilateral, oblong to ovate or 
lanceolate-oblong, entire, acuminate ; the base broad, unequally cordate, 
one side auriculate or sub-auriculate ; upper surface very dark when 
dry, glabrous, shining ; the lower densely but minutely tawny or rufous- 
tomentose with many deciduous cinnamoneous stellate hairs on the 
surface ; maiu nerves 5 to 7 pairs, prominent beneath ; length 3 to 
5'5 in., breadth 1’35 to 2 in. ; petiole ’15 in. ; stipules subulate-lanceo- 
late. Flowers 2 in. long, solitary, or in 2-3-flowered cymes, axillary, 
or (by the suppression of the leaves) in terminal racemes : pedicels 
'5 in. long, bracteate, cylindric in bud. Sepals coriaceous, narrowly 
linear, acute, scurfy, stellate-pubescent externally as are the pedicels 
and bracteoles, pubescent internally. Petals membranous, obliquely 
oblong-oblanceolate or sub-spathulate, shorter than the sepals, glabres- 
cent. Staminal tube and gynophore about - 5 in. long, the free part of 
the filaments rather longer; fertile anthers about 10; staminodes 5, 
scaly-pubescent above. Ovary ovoid, villous, 5-celled. Style shorter 
than the staminal tube, glabrous : stigma narrowly ovoid. Capsule 
woody, oblong, 5-angled, sub-acute, gradually and slightly narrowed at 
the base, glabrous when ripe ; 3 to 4 in. long and 1'5 in. in diam. Seeds 
flat, 1'5 in. long. Miq. FI. Ind, Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 191. Pterospermum 
lanceaefoliuni, Bl. (not of Roxb.) Bijdr. 87. P. cinnamoneum, Kurz, 
For. FI. Burm i. 147. P. Javanicum, Jungh. Kurz, 1. c. i. 147. 
Perak, Penang ; common at low elevations. Distrib. Sumatra, 
Java, Borneo, Burmah, Assam. 
A very common tree in Perak. Korthal’s Bornean species P. fuscurn 
appears to me to be nothing more than a very cinnamoneous-tomentose 
form of this. And the Peninsular-Indian P. rubiginosum, Heyne, 
(Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 368) cannot be very different. I 
should be induced to reduce both to the oldest described species which 
is this. Of the absolute identity of Kurz’s P. cinnamoneum with this 
I have no doubt whatever. 
3. P. Jackianum, Wall. Cat. 1164. A tree: the small branches 
slender, rather dark, when young covered by a layer of white 
minute tomentum with many rufous stellate hairs on its surface. 
Leaves sub-coriaceous oblong or elliptic-oblong, slightly inequilateral, 
entire, or sinuate towards the rather abruptly acuminate apex ; the base 
sub-acute, or truncate and minutely cordate or emarginate, never 
auricled ; upper surface pale brown when dry, glabrous except the 
puberulous midrib and nerves ; under surface pale brown or buff, with 
