1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. Ill 
ovoid, recurvod, with many curved striae, pericarp membranous, minute- 
ly and sparsely stellate-pubescent, the mesocarp fibrous with an outer 
layer of pulp : pyrene 1-celled, 1-seeded ; endocarp stony. Wall. Cat. 
1097, partly; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 203; Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. 
Br. Ind. i. 393. G. Blumei, Hassk. Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. xii. 130; 
Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 203. Microcos tomentosa, Smith in Rees, 
Cycl. G. afftnis, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bog. 207, not of Lindl. 
Singapore; Malacca, Maingay, No. 250. Griffith, No. 634 (Kew 
Distrib.). Perak. Penang; common. 
I retain for this plant the name adopted for it by Masters in 
Hooker’s Floi’a of British India. But Blume’s G. paniculata (Bijdr. 
115) was published seven years before Roxburgh’s. I have not seen 
any specimen of Blume’s plant : but if it be the same as this, then 
Blume’s name must be substituted for that of Roxburgh as the author 
of the specific name. If Blume’s plant, however, be different from 
Roxburgh’s, then some other name must be found for the latter. That 
the plant above described is what Roxburgh meant to call G. paniculata, 
his coloured drawing in the Calcutta Herbarium leaves no room for 
doubt. 
3. Grewia fibrocarpa, Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 391. A 
tree 15 to 40 feet high ; young branches, under surfaces of leaves, 
petioles, inflorescence and fruit densely clothed with yellowish-brown 
stellate tomeutum. Leaves membranous, ovate-oblong or elliptic, short- 
ly and abruptly aouminate, minutely and obscurely serrulate, the base 
rounded and boldly 3-nerved ; upper surface scaberulous, the midrib 
and nerves tomentose, under surface softly tomentose ; the 5 to 7 pairs 
of lateral nerves and the transverse veins rather prominent beneath : 
length 4'5 to 9 in., breadth 1'75 to 4 in., petiole ‘25 to '5 in., stout : 
stipules deeply and narrowly lobed. Panicles terminal and in the upper 
axils, crowded, ‘5 to 2 in. long : involucres lanceolate, curved, tomentose. 
Flowers - 25 in. long, their pedicels much shorter. Sepals obovate- 
elliptic, very tomentose externally, the edges inflexed, sparsely pilose 
internally. Petals minute, sub-orbicular, sometimes absent. Torus 
short, hirsute. Ovary ovoid-globose, tomentose ; the style short, conical, 
glabrous. Fruit soft, ovoid or obovoid, compressed, 1'25 in. long and 
’75 in. in diarn., the pericarp membranous and densely tomentose out- 
side, mesocarp fibrous and pulpy; pyrene small, solitary, leathery, 1- 
celled, 1-seeded. G. paniculata, Wall. (Cat. No. 1097 partly) not of 
Roxb. 
Penang; Wallich, Curtis. Malacca; Griffith; Maingay, No. 248 
(Kew Distrib,), Perak; Scortechini, King’s Collector, Wray. Common, 
