106 G. King Materials joe a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
small, linear without claw, or absent. Stamens numerous, free, some- 
times inserted on the apex of a short gynopliore ; authors oblong, 2- 
celled : cells parallel, with longitudinal sutural dehiscence. Staminodes 
0. Ovary sessile or shortly stalked, imperfectly 3 to 5-cellcd ; oells with 
2 ovules from the base of the axilo placentas, style filiform ; stigmas 
3 to 5, linear fleshy, reflexed. Capsule with crustaceous fragile pericarp, 
dehiscing irregularly, 1-celled (by abortion), 1- to 3-seeded. Seeds sub- 
globose, with loathery smooth testa, exalbuminous : the cotyledons 
large, leafy, thin, crumpled: embryo straight. Distrib. 5 species, of 
which 4 are Malayan and 1 Cambodian. 
Flowers in panicles or solitary, axillary. 
Calyx very accrescent very deeply lobed 1. S. Mastersii. 
„ slightly accrescent not deeply lobed 2. S. Kunstleri .} 
Flowers in dense axillary glomeruli ... 3. S. glomerata . 
1. Schoutenia Mastersii, King. A tree 60 to 80 feet high : 
young branches slender, dark-coloured, at first scaly but soon glabrous. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, slightly obovate, shortly and 
bluntly acuminate, the base rounded ; upper surface glabrous, the lower 
minutely and softly tawny-tomentose ; nerves slightly prominent beneath, 
about 3 pairs lateral and 1 pair basal : length ‘75 to 3' 25 in. ; breadth 
4 to 1 1 in. ; petiole less than '1 in. Flowers solitary and axillary, or 
in terminal leafy panicles ; the pedicels from '35 to 75 in. according to 
age, tawny-tomentose, jointed below the middle. Calyx membranous, 
pink, conspicuously veined, at first widely campanulate, '35 in. long’ 
with 5 shallow teeth becoming with the ripening of the fruit, rotate, flat 
1’5 to 2 in. in diam., and 5-angled; pubescent outside, glabrous within. 
Filaments very slender, longer than the style. Ovary obovoid-globose, 
tawny-tomentose. Style stout, threo times as long as the ovary, tomen- 
tose : stigmas scaly. Fruit depressed-globose, -3 in. in diam., minutely 
tomentose, Chartacalyx accrescens, Mast, in Hook, fil, FI Br Ind i 
382. 
Malacca, Penang, Perak. Disti'ib. Borneo. 
On this plant the late Dr. Maingay founded his genus Chartacalyx. 
The only points, however, in which it differs from Schoutenia (as defined 
by Bcntham and Hooker) are the absence of petals and the presence of 
a stalk to the ovary on the upper part of which the stamens are inserted ; 
and these appear to me to be, in this order, differences of quite minor 
importance. Maingay never saw the fruit of this ; but copious fruiting 
specimens have recently been collected and the fruit is found to be 
exactly that of Schoutenia. As regards the structure of the seeds of 
