1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 107 
Schoutenia, Kortbals (the author of the genus) says nothing : nor does 
Bennet who (PI. Jav. Rar. p. 239, t. 46) describes at greater length 
than Kortbals the species S. ovata, the only one then known. Bennett 
neither describes nor figures albumen in the seed. Hasskarl (Retzia 1, 
136) describes the seeds as exalbuminous, and I find none in the seeds 
of these species of which I have been able to examine ripe fruit. The 
only other known species are S. ovata, Korth. from Java ; and S. hy~ 
poleuca, Pierre (Fl. Cochin-Chine t. 134) from Cambodia. 
2. Schoutenia Kunstmsri, n. sp., King. A tree 60 to 70 feet 
high : young branches cinereous, rather rough -glabrous. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, narrowly obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, acute, the margin 
slightly waved, slightly narrowed to the rounded 3- to 5-nerved base ; 
upper surface glabrous, shining: lower sub-silvery; the lateral nerves 
4 or 5 pairs, spreading, curving, inter-arching near the margin, promi- 
nent on the lower surface as are the basal nerves and the numerous 
slightly curved transverse veins. Floioers crowded towards the ends of 
the branches, in numerous short few-flowered scurfy-tomontose racemes 
or cymes : pedicels from '5 to 75 in. long, jointed and bracteolate above 
the base, the bracteole oblanceolate. Calyx campauulate, membranous, 
coloured and veined, stellate-hairy on both surfaces, '5 to '75 in. long, 
according to age, cut to the base into 5 ovate spreading lobes. Petals 0. 
Stamens on a slightly elevated torus. Ovary sessile, sub-globose, densely 
tomentose, 5-celled. Style longer than the stamens. Stigmas 5, short, 
fleshy. Fruit 1-celled, 1-seedod, surrouuded by the slightly accrescent 
persistent calyx. 
Perak at elevations of from 300 to 800 feet : King’s Collector, No 
3409: on Ulu Tupa, Wray, No. 2692. 
According to the field notes of Messrs. Kunstler and Wray, the 
calyx is yellow when young, but becomes brown when the fruit ripens. 
3. Schoutenia g lour kata, n. sp., King. A tree from 40 to 60 
feet high : young branches slender, cinereous, minutely pubescent. 
Leaves membranous, glabrous, elliptic-oblong, acute or shortly and 
bluntly acuminate, the margins slightly waved ; the base broad, rounded 
or emarginate, 3-nerved, the upper pair of nerves very strong, running 
to the apex of the leaf and joined to the midrib by numerous prominent 
curving transverse secondary nerves, all very prominent on the pale 
silvery shining under surface : length 10 to 15 in., breadth 3'5 to 5'5 
in. ; petiole only '25 in. long, stout, wrinkled. Cymes condensed, very 
crowded, axillary, 1 to 1'5 in. in diam. Flowers '25 in. long and '3 in. 
wide, on tomentoso rufous pedicels about '2 in. long. Calyx widely 
