1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 137 
smaller leaves with very large scrobiculse on tlie lower sm’face at tlie 
junction of the petioles with the midrib. This has been named F. 
simplex by Kurz, (FI. Barm. i. 165.) A similar form occurs in Travancore 
and has been named E. venustus by Beddome (Flora Sylvatica, t. 574). 
19. Elsocarpus polystachyus, Wall. Oat. 2671. A small tree : 
young shoots rather stout, minutely tawny-tomentose. Leaves coriace- 
ous, pale when dry, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, abruptly and shortly acumi- 
nate ; the edges rather remotely serrulate except at the base, sub-entire 
when old ; the base broad, rounded ; upper surface glabrous ; the lower 
sparsely and minutely sub-adpressed puberulous, the midrib pubescent 
main nerves 7 to 10 pairs, ascending, curving, prominent beneath, the 
reticulations minute, faint : length 5'5 to 7'5 in., breadth 2'25 to 3'5 in. ; 
petioles 2'5 to 4 in., minutely tawny-tomentose, slightly thickened at 
the apex. Racemes slightly longer than the petioles ; the rachises, 
pedicels and outside of sepals densely minutely tawny-tomentose. 
Flowers '35 in. in diam., their pedicels - 4 in., recurved, buds sub-globose. 
Sepals ovate, acute ; inner surface glabrous, except the pubescent edges, 
the midrib thickened. Petals elliptic, little longer than tho sepals, the 
apex obtuse, sometimes slightly lobed, not fimbriate : villous on both 
surfaces, the hairs on the inner reversed. Torus of 5 retuse thin densely 
villous glands. Stamens half as long as the petals : filaments nearly 
as long as the hispid-pubescent anthers ; cells subequal, awnless, beard- 
less. Ovary ovoid, blunt, densely villous, 2-celled. Style about as long 
as the ovary, puberulous. Fruit oblong, blunt, ‘6 in. long and *35 in. in 
diam., smooth, glabrous ; stone minutely but sharply rugose, 1-celled, 
1- seeded, pulp thin and slightly fibrous. C. Mull. Annot. de fam. 
Eleeocarp. 20, f. 13; Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 403. 
Singapore ; Wallich, Hullett, Ridley. Malacca ; Maingay, Nos. 264, 
266, (Kew Distrib.). 
20. El.*ocarpus Jackiancs, Wall. Cat, 2679. A tree 40 to 80 
feet high : young branches stout, densely rufous-tomentose. Leaves 
coriaceous, ovate-oblong to elliptic, rarely oblong-ovoid, shortly acumi- 
nate oi’ acute, edges entire, recurved ; the base l’ounded or slightly 
nari’owed: upper surface rather dull and pale when dry ; glabrous, the 
midrib alone sometimes pubescent, the lower softly rufous-tomentose, 
becoming sub-glabroscent when very old, the minute reticulations dis- 
tinct; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, sub-ascending, driving, prominent on 
the lower, impressed on the upper, surface : length 4 to 7 5 in., breadth 
2- 5 to 4’5 in. ; petiole F75 to 3 in., stout, thickened at each end, tomen- 
tose. Racemes crowded on the branches below the leaves, sometimes 
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