1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 101 
Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay. Perak : Scortechini. 
This approaches the Javan P. polyantha, Hassk., which has, however, 
larger flowers with a shallower calyx with longer teeth, a shorter style, 
and a 5-lobed ovary. 
2. Pentace Hookeriana, n. sp., King. A tree 30 to 40 feet high : 
young branches cinereous, glabrous. Leaves elliptic-oblong, slightly 
obovate, acute, the base narrowed and slightly unequal ; upper surface 
glabrous, the lower dull ; lateral main nerves about 6 pairs (one of the 
pairs basal), prominent on both surfaces; the intermediate nerves, 
transverse veins and reticulations prominent only on the lower : length 
5 to 7'5 in.; breadth 2 to 2 75 in.; petiole ’25 in., stout. Panicles 
terminal and in the axils of the upper leaves, 2'5 to 5 in. long, the 
branches spreading, everywhere scurfy-tomentose. Flowers rather 
crowded, '2 in. long, on pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx cam- 
panulate, cut half-way down into 3 or 4 broadly triangular sub-acute 
spreading teeth, scaly and minutely tomeutose outside. Petals narrow- 
ly obovate. Stamens 15 in 5 bundles of 3 each, very much shorter 
than the petals. Staminodes thick, orbicular, embracing the ovary. 
Ovary depressed-globose, densely pubescent, obscurely 5-lobed, 5-celled, 
Styles 5, free, shorter than the ovary. Fruit unknown. 
Perak, on the banks of tho Kiuta river : King’s Collector, No. 815. 
3. Pentace Kunstleri, n. sp., King. A tree 30 to 40 feet high : 
young branches slender, dark-coloured, glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate, 
with an abrupt short broad blunt acumen, the base rounded : upper 
surface shining, glabrous, the lower dull ; lateral nerves 3 or 4 pairs, 
curved, prominent beneath ; sometimes a pair of short slender sub- 
marginal nerves at the base : length 4'5 to 6 in., breadth 2'5 to 3 P 5 in, ; 
petiole '75 to 1 in., stout, thickened at the apex. Panicles terminal, 3 p 5 
to 6 in. long, puberulous, much-branched. Flowers numerous, -15 in. 
long, the pedicels slightly shorter. Calyx tubular-campanulate, minutely 
stellate- hairy and lepidote outside ; the teeth triangular, acute, erect. 
Petals spathulate with a very long claw. Stamens in 5 bundles. 
Staminodes linear-lanceolate, as long as the filaments. Ovary depressed- 
globose, with 5 blunt angles, lepidote and pubescent, 5-celled. Style 
straight, glabrous. Fruit unknown. 
Perak, at a very low elevation; King’s Collector, No. 6871. 
4. Pentace Perakensis, n. sp., King. A tree 30 to 40 feet high : 
young branches cinereous, glabrous. Leaves ovate-elliptic, slightly 
oblique, bluntly acuminate, the base rounded or sub-cuneate : upper 
sui face shining, glabrous : the lower dull ; lateral nerves about 5 pairs 
