1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 119 
Flowers in axillary or terminal, umbellate, stalked cymes or panicles. 
Sepals 5 valvate, thick. Petals 5, membranous with a scale atjthe base. 
Stamens numorous, free, inserted on the inner surface of an annular mar- 
ginally villous sub-crenate disk ; anthers broad, short, versatile, the 
connective sub-orbicular. Ovary sessile, 2-celled, with numerous ovules 
on axile placentas : style short, stigma expanded, papillose. Capsule 
orbicular-reniform, much compressed at right angles to the dissepiments, 
loculicidally 2-valved, many-seeded. Seeds sub-lenticular, with a thin 
imperfect marginally villous arillus ; albumen fleshy ; embryo central 
the cotyledons orbicular, foliaceous ; radicle straight. Distrib. 3 species 
2 of which are Malayan and Polynesian, 
1. Trichospermum Kurzii, King. A troe 40 to 60 feet high : bark 
of young branches very dark-coloured, sparsely and minutely stellate- 
pubescent when young, speedily glabrous. Leaves membranous, ovate- 
elliptic, shortly acuminate, minutely serrate-crenate especially near the 
apex ; the base rounded, sub-trunoate, sub-cordate, boldly 3-nerved : 
lateral nerves about 4 pairs : the transverse veins sub-horizontal, curved, 
bold : length 4 to 6 in., breadth 2 to 3 in., petiole about -5 in. Panicles 
solitary, axillary or terminal, stalked, cymose, 2-3-ohotomous, much 
shorter than the leaves when in flower, nearly as long when in fruit, 
stellate-tomentose. Sepals oblong, acute, stellate-tomentose outside, 
glabrous inside except a tuft of hairs at the base. Petals about the size 
and shape of the sepals, glabrescent, with a fleshy scale at the base and 
a transverse belt of long hairs above it. Ovary sessile, densely villous ; 
style shorter than the ovary, cylindric, expanding upwards into the 
broad papillose stigma. Capsule about - 75 in. long and slightly wider, 
emarginate at the apex and crowned by the persistent style : pericarp 
leathery, villous and dark-coloured ; inside white, shining and glabrous : 
placentas broad, seeds sessile or shortly stalked, sub-lenticular, the long 
hairs of the arillus forming a marginal ring, Biscagrewia nicobarica, 
Kurz, Trim. Journ. Bot. for 1875, p. 325, t. 169. 
Nicobars : Kurz, Perak; King’s Collector, Wray. 
The genus Trichospermum was founded by Blumo for his single 
species T. Javanicuin. The generic definition which I have given above 
differs from that of Blume (Bijdr. 56), in these respects. Blume 
describes (1) the aestivation of the sepals as imbricate ; (2) the style as 
absent ; (3) the stigmas as two and emarginate. The definition also 
differs from that given by Benth. & Hook. (G. P. i. 236) inasmuch as 
these authors describe (1) the petals as naked at the base; (2) anthers 
oblong ; (3) style almost none ; (4) stigma sessile, refuse ; (5) the apex 
of the capsule produced into a short thick leathery expansion • (6) 
leaves entire. 
