1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 97 
1. Brownlowia, Roxb. 
Trees. Pubescence stellate or scaly. Leaves entire, 3-5-nerved, 
feather- veined. Flowers numerous, small, in large terminal or axillary 
panicles. Calyx bell-shaped, irregularly 3-5-fid. Petals 5, without 
glands. Stamens many, free, springing from a raised torus. Staminodes 
5, within the stamens, opposite the petals and petaloid. Anthers sub- 
globose. Ovaries 5, each 2-ovulate; styles awl-shaped, slightly coherent; 
ovules ascending. Carpels ultimately free, 2-valved, 1-seeded. Albumen 
0 ; cotyledons thick, fleshy. — Distrib. Nine species confined to Tropical 
Asia. 
Leaves not peltate. 
Leaves lanceolate ... ... 1 . B. lanceolata. 
„ broadly elliptic to elliptic-rotund 2. B. Kleinhovioidea. 
Leaves peltate. 
Leaves minutely hairy beneath ... 3. B. Scortechinii. 
„ glabrous on both surfaces ... 4. B. macrophylla. 
1. Brownlowia lanceolata, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Y. Suppl. 
ii. 57. A tree 25 to 30 feet high ; young branches pale when dry, sub- 
lepidote. Leaves thinly coriaceous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, the base obtuse ; upper surface when adult glabrous, shining, 
the lower covered by a dense layer of minute whitish yellow shining 
scales: main nerves 6 to 8 pairs (1 pair of them basal), not prominent: 
length 4'5 to 6 in., breadth 1'5 to 1'75 in., petiole "25 to '4 in. Panicles 
axillary or terminal, 1 to 3 in. long, and less than 1 in. across, few- 
flowered. Flowers '25 in. long, their pedicels about as long. Calyx 
•2 in. long, scaly like the pedicel, its lobes lanceolate. Petals longer 
than the calyx, oblong, blunt, slightly narrowed to the shortly unguicu- 
late base, glabrous. Anther-cells sub-divaricate, sub-confluent when 
adult. Ovary deeply 3 to 5-lobed, pubescent, the cells 2-ovuled. Pipe 
carpels distinct, sub-globose, truncate, compressed on their inner sur- 
faces, minutely lepidote and pubescent, '5 in. in diam. Seed solitary, 
with thin testa and large sub-hemispheric cotyledons. Hook. fil. PI. 
Br. Ind. i. 381 : Kurz For. Flora Burm. 154. 
Malacca, Griffith. Distrib. Burmah and Bengal ; in tidal forests 
and mangrove swamps. 
The young parts are covered with rusty or pale brown scales, but 
the adult branchlets leaves and flowers are as above described. 
2. Brownlowia Kleinhovioidea, King, n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet 
high : young branches rather slender, covered with a dense thin layer of 
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