1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 115 
9. Grewia Miqueuana, Kurz, in Flora for 1872, p. 398. A tree 
20 to 40 feet high : young branches at first very sparsely and minutely 
lepidote, afterwards glabrous, the bark dark brown. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, glabrons, shining, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, shortly 
acuminate, entire, the base cuneate, faintly 3-nerved ; both surfaces 
glabrescent soon becoming glabrous : main lateral nerves 5 or 6 pairs, 
not prominent; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1 to 1'75 in. ; petiole '2 to ‘3 
in., scaly -tomentose ; stipules oblong, blunt, oblique. Paniales axillary 
and terminal, lax, few-flowered, sparsely lepidote and puberulous, 1 to 2 
in. long. Flowers '3 in. long, their pedicels very shoi't. Sepals ob- 
lanceolate, acute, the edges inflexed, minutely tomentose. Petals much 
shorter than the sepals, the glabrescent linear acute limb shorter and 
narrower than the thickened rounded tomentose claw. lorus short, 
cylindric, puberulous with villous edges. Ovary globose-ovoid, tomen- 
tose, shorter than the cylindric glabrous style, 2-cel led. Drupe pyriform, 
•75 in. long and ’5 in. in diam., glabrous : pericarp smooth, glabrous, 
shining; mesocarp fibrous with a little pulp : pyrenes 2, each 1-celled, 
one 1-seeded, the other barren : the endocarp bony. Inodaphnis lanceo- 
lata, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 357; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 89; 
Meisn. in DC. Prod. xv. 1, 265. 
Malacca; Maingay, (Kew Distrib.) No. 244. Perak; Scortechini, 
King’s Collector, at low elevations. Dindings ; Curtis, No. 1613. Distrib. 
Sumatra. 
There is an authentic fruiting specimen in the Calcutta Herbarium 
of Miquel’s Inodaphnis lanceolata collected in Sumatra. And there is 
no doubt whatever that Kurz was right in referring the plant to Grewia. 
Miquel founded his genus on specimens without flowers ; and, apparent- 
ly from the structure of the fruit, he suggested its affinity to Inocarpus. 
Later on he suggested (Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 89) its affinity with 
the Rosaceous genera Chrysobalanus, Parastemon and Diemenia ( = Tri- 
chocarya). Meissner in DC. Prod. (1. c.) briefly described the genus at 
the end of Heriiandiaceae, but without indicating his opinion as to its 
proper place. Had these distinguished botanists had an opportunity 
of examining flowers, they would doubtless have referred it without 
hesitation to Grewia. The practice (fortunately confined to a few au- 
thors) of founding genera on specimens without flowers cannot be too 
strongly condemned. 
6. Tridmfetta, Linn. 
Herbs or undershrubs, generally more or less covered with stellate 
hairs. Leaves serrate or dentate, simple or lobed. Flowers yellowish, 
in dense (‘Vines. Sepals 5, oblong, concave. 1 etuis 5. Stamens 5-35, 
