86 G King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
a layer of minute tomentum and on the surface (and especially on the 
midrib and nerves) many minute deciduous rusty stellate hairs ; nerves 
10 to 12 pairs, prominent beneath, spreading ; length 4 to 5'5 in., breadth 
1‘5 to 2 in., petiole ‘25 in. ; stipules caducous. Flowers 2 in. long : the 
buds cyliudrie, acute, solitary, axillary ; pedicels - 1 in. long, tomentose 
like the exterior of the sepals, minute, linear-subulate. Sepals linear- 
lanceolate, adpressed-sericeous within. Petals shorter than the sepals, 
oblanceolate, scaly, puberulous externally. Staminal tube and gynophore 
'25 in. long, the free part of the filaments more than twice as long ; 
fertile anthers about 12 ; staminodes 5. Ovary fusiform. Style longer 
than the stamens, pubescent below ; stigma cylindric. Capsule (fide 
Masters) shortly stalked, ovoid, terete, acute, 1'5 in. long and 1 in. in 
diara., covered with flat scaly hairs. Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind i. 
367; P. oblougutn, Wall. Cat. 1165. 
Penang ; Jack, Wallich, Curtis. Malacca ; Stolickza, at low eleva- 
tions. 
This species does not appear to be a common one. P. Blumeanuin 
has probably been mistaken for it. 
4. P. acekoides, Wall. Cat. 1171. A tree 35 to 50 feet high : 
young branches rather slender, covered (as are the petioles and under 
surfaces of the leaves) by a thin felted layer of minute white tomentum, 
above which is a superficial deciduous layer of loose stellate rufous hairs. 
Leaves coriaceous, more or less elliptic, sometimes obovate-elliptic, the 
apex abruptly and shortly acuminate, the edge often straight at the 
sides, sometimes waved, never lobed : the base sub-truncate, often 
cordate, 5 to 7-nerved ; upper surface (when adult) glabrous : main 
lateral nerves 12 to 15 pairs, straight, oblique ; length 5 to 10 in., 
breadth 3 25 to 5’5 in., petiole '4 to ’5 in. Flowers 1'5 to 1'75 in. long ; 
solitary, or in 3 to 4-flowered sub-sessile axillary cymes ; pedicels '2 in. 
long, each with a deeply lobed tomentose bract ; the buds narrowly 
cylindric, ribbed. Sepals very coriaceous, recurved, longer than the 
petals, linear, acute, scurfy-tomentose outside, adpressed-pubescent 
within. Petals membranous, obovate, glabrous in the inner, scurfy on 
the outer, surface. Stamens as long as the petals or shorter, the tube 
only '25 in. long: fertile anthers about 15, lineal’. Style shorter than 
the stamens, glabrous ; stigma clavate ; ovary densely sericeous, 5- 
angled. Capsule woody, oblong, pointed at both ends, angled, glabrous, 
2 to 2'5 in. long. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873, pt. 62; For. 
Flora Bunn. i. 145. P. aeerifolium, Mast, (not of Willd.) in Hook. fll. 
FI. Br. Ind. i. 368, in part. Miq. 111. Arch. Ind. 84, in part. 
Andaman Islands; Heifer, No. 568 (Kew Distrib.), Kurz , King’s 
Collectors. Distrib. Bnrmah ; Wallich. 
