1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 127 
in its upper half. Fruit ovoid-globose, 1 to 125 in. long : stone oblong- 
ovoid, rugose, slightly 3-grooved at base and apex, 3-celled. Mast, in 
Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 402 ; Kurz FI. Burm. i. 169 ; Pierre FI. For. 
Coch-Chine, t. 147 ; Wight Ic. t. 64 ; Wall. Cat. 2664. E. ovalifolius. 
Wall. Cat. 2665 ; C. Mull. Annot. de fam. Elseocarp. 21. E. amygdalinus, 
Wall. Cat. 6857. E. serratus, Wall. Cat. 2666 C. E. oblonga, Wall. 
Cat. 2677. E. aristatus. Wall. Cat. 2665 B. ? Wall. Cat. 9027. E. 
Eelferi, Kurz MSS. ; Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 402. 
Penang ; Curtis. Pahang ; Ridley. Andaman Islands. Distrib. 
British India, from Burmah to the tropical forests of the E. Himalaya. 
8. Eljjocarpus nitidus, Jack Mai. Misc. Vol. i. No. 2, 41 ; Hook. 
Bot. Misc. ii. 84. A tree 25 to 35 feet high ; young shoots deciduously 
pulverulont-pubescent, speedily glabrous as are all other parts except the 
inflorescence; young branches with blackish bark. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, acuminate, crenate-ser- 
rulate, (sometimes obscurely so) the base cuneate (rounded in var. 
leptostachya) ; upper surface shining, the lower dull brown ; main nerves 
10 to 13 pairs, spreading, forming slender arches a little short of the 
margin : length 4*5 to 9 in., breadth 1*75 to 2*75 in. ; petiole 1*25 to 2 
in. thickened at the apex. Racemes crowded on the old wood below the 
leaves and rather more than half as long ; rachis, flower-pedicels, and 
exterior of sepals sparsely puberulous. Flowers "35 in. in diam., their 
pedicels recurved and rather shorter. Sepals shorter than the petals, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, puberulous and sometimes lenticellate outside, 
puberulous inside and the midrib very thick. Petals cuneiform, finely 
and irregularly laciniate for nearly half their length, the entire trian- 
gular part with thickened nerves and truncate base, glandular-pubescent 
especially at the edges. Torus of 5 truncate, sub-globular, fleshy, to- 
mentose, cushion-like glands. Stamens 15 to 35 ; the filaments nearly 
as long as the scabrid obtuse anthers : cells sub-equal, awnless, but 
sometimes the longer with 2 or 3 small white hairs. Ovary globose, 
slightly pointed, tomentose, 3-celled ; style longer than the ovary, slight- 
ly thickened below and puberulous. Fruit ovoid, or slightly obovoid, 
smooth, 1*5 in. long, and 1 in. in diam. when quite ripe : stone 3-celled, 
only one cell bearing a perfect seed. Wall. Oat. 2670; Miq. FI. Ind. 
Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 208 ; Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 401 ; Wall. 
Cat., No. 2678 ( E . pedunculalus ) in part. 
Penang; Jack, Curtis, No. 282, 463. Perak; King’s Collector, No. 
4926. 
The anthers are sometimes without any terminal hairs : sometimes 
there are a few. I have seen no authentic specimen of J ack’s naming, 
