102 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
ascending, curved; length 5 to 6 in., breadth 2'5 to 3 in. ; petiole '75 to 
1 in., stout, and thickened at the apex. Panicles terminal, 4 to 5 in. 
long and less than 2 in. wide, little branched and few-flowered. 
Flowers about '1 in. long, their pedicels about as long. Oalyx rotate, 
minutely lepidote outside ; the teeth triangular, spreading. Petals ovate, 
narrowed to a short claw. Stamens about 30, 5-delphous. Staminodes 
lanceolate, as long as the filaments. Ovary globose, slightly pointed, 
10-ridged, slightly hairy, 5-celled. Style about as long as the ovary, 
cylindric. Stigma terminal, small. Fruit unknown. 
Perak, King’s Collector, No. 3428. 
5. Pentace macrophylla, n. sp., King. A tree usually from 20 
to 30 feet high, but occasionally as much as 50 feet. Young branches 
rather slender, pale brown, glabrous. Leaves large, ovate-elliptic to 
almost rotund, the apex very shortly and abruptly blunt-acuminate, the 
base rounded: upper surface glabrous; the lower dull; basal nerves 
2 pairs, the upper branched on one side ; lateral nerves from the midrib 
2 to 3 pairs, all ascending and little curved, prominent beneath ; length 
7 to 14 in., breadth 5 to 12 in. ; petiole 2'5 to 3 in., stont. Panicles 
terminal and axillary, 6 to 15 in. long, lax, spreading, minutely yellow- 
ish-pubescent and scurfy. Flowers '15 in. long and '2 in. in diam., on 
pedicels about as long as the calyx. Calyx almost rotate, cut for two- 
thirds of its length into 5 lanceolate acute teeth, minutely yellowish- 
tomentose outside. Petals oblanceolate, obtuse. Staminodes linear, as 
long as the stamens. Stamens in 5 bundles of about 15 each. Ovary 
ovoid, scaly and pubescent, obtusely 5-angled. Style rather shorter 
than the stamens, cylindric, pointed. Fruit '75 in. long with 10 radiat- 
ing semi-elliptic striate sparsely scaly wings each '4 in. wide. 
Perak at elevations up to 500 feet ; King’s Collector, Scortechini, 
Wray: common. 
Distinguished from all the other known species by the large size of 
its leaves. 
6. Pentace floribunda, n. sp., King. A tree 40 to 70 feet high : 
young branches slender, sparsely stellate-puberulous, the bark dark- 
coloured. Leaves elliptic-oblong to elliptic-rotund, the apex shortly and 
rather abruptly apiculate ; the base rounded or slightly narrowed ; upper 
surface glabrous, lowor cinereous and with some scattered pubescence ; 
basal nerves 2 pairs, one of them branching on one side : lateral nerves 
2 or 3 pairs, all ascending and all rather prominent : transverse veins 
not prominent; length 5 to 6'5 in., breadth 2 5 to 3 75 in., petiole 1 to 2 
in., tliickonod towards the apex. Panicles towards the apices of the 
