1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 139 
Malacca ; Maingay No. 256 (Kew Distrib.). Penang; Stoliczka; on 
Government Hill at 2,500 feet, Curtis, No. 1092. 
The Malacca and Penang specimens agree with a specimen at Kew 
which Miquel has named E. tomentosus , Bl. The two species are no 
doubt close together : hut Blume describes the leaves of his E. tomen- 
tosus, as “ setaceous-denticulate ” which is not the case here. This tree 
appears to be uncommou, for Herbarium specimens of it are very few. 
22. Elasocaepus punctatuS, King, n. sp. A small tree ; all parts 
glabrous except the puberulous inflorescence ; young branches thicker than 
a crow-quill, rough. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acute, the edges 
cartilaginous, cronate or serrate, sometimes with a short seta on each 
tooth, the base much narrowod into the petiole, entire : both surfaces 
shining ; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, slender but distinct beneath as are 
the reticulations : length 175 to 3 in., breadth '5 to 1*1 in. ; petiole ‘25 
to -3 in., channelled in front. Bacemes axillary and from the axils of 
fallen leaves, much shorter than the leaves ; rachises and pedicels pu- 
berulous, becoming glabrescent. Flowers '25 in. in diam., their pedicels 
■2 in., recurved. Sepals 4, oblong-lanceolate, sub-acute, puberulous on 
both surfaces, the edges thickened and pubescent but not recurved : 
midrib thickened inside. Petals 4, obovoid-oblong, apex obtuse with 5 
to 7 short broad teeth, glabrous. Torus a shallow wavy pubescent cup. 
Stamens 8 to 12; filaments less than half as long as the scaberulous 
obtuse beardless awnless anthers: the cells sub-equal. Ovary ovoid, 
glabrous, slightly grooved, 2-celled. Style about as long as the ovary, 
eylindric, grooved, puberulous. Fruit oblong-ovoid, pointed, narrowed 
to both ends, glabrous, shining, pale, '5 in. long and '25 in. in diam. ; 
pulp thin, and slightly fibrous ; stone crustaceous, sharply rugose, 1- 
celled by abortion, 1-seeded. Elaeocarpus Acronodia, Mast, in Hook. fil. 
FI. Br. Ind. i. 408 in part. Acronodia punctata, Bl. Bijdr. 123; Miq. FI. 
Ind. i. pt. 2, p. 213. 
Perak; on Ulu Batang Padang, at 5000 feet, Wray. Malacca. 
Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 
The leaves cf specimens from Java and Sumatra are larger than 
those from Perak and have numerous black dots on the lower surface, 
whereas those from Perak have no such dots. In other respects the 
specimens agree : but the Perak material which I have as yet seen is 
scanty. The plant issued by Wallioh as E. punctatus, (No. 2676 of his 
Catalogue) is not the Acronodia punctata of Blume, but an altogether 
different plant. Walliclvs specimens are very bad, and Dr. Masters 
(FI. Br. Ind. i. 406) suggests that perhaps the leaves are those of a 
Pterospermum ; in reality they belong to a species of Parinarium. 
