140 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 1891. 
23. Elsiocarpus Masteesii, King. A tree 30 to 50 feet high : 
young branches as thin as a crow-quill, smooth, puberulous; otherwise 
glabrous excopt tho inflorescence. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong- 
lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, often caudate ; the edge 
slightly cartilaginous, remotely and faintly serrato, the base cuneate ; 
both surfaces shining and with the rather transverse reticulations 
distinct; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, faint, spreading, interarching with- 
in the edge : length of blade 2'75 to 4'5 in., breadth '8 to I t in. ; petiole 
■5 to ‘75 in., slender. Racemes few-flowered, less than half as lono 1 as 
the leaves, from the axils under the apex ; rachises and pedicels puberu- 
lous, becoming glabrous. Flowers '2 in. in diam. ; buds narrowly ovoid, 
pointed. Sepals 4, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, puberulous or glabrescent 
outside : glabrous inside on the lower, often puberulous in the upper 
half and slightly on the infolded edges. Petals 4, oblanceolate or nar- 
rowly cuneate, the rounded apex with about 15 short teeth, thickened 
towards the base, -veined, glabrous. Torus a very shallow wavy pubes- 
cent disk. Stamens 8 or 9, shorter than the petals, filaments nearlv as 
long as the snb-scaberulous anthers ; the cells blunt at the apex, awn- 
less. Ovary (absent in many flowers), ovoid, blunt, glabrous, 2-eelled. 
Style about as long as the ovary, thick, cylindric, grooved, glabrous. 
Fruit ovoid-globose, the apex slightly pointed, smooth, -35 in. long and 
•25 in. in diam. ; pulp thin and without fibres : stone smooth, cartilagi- 
nous, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Flaeocarpus Acronodia, Mast, in Hook. fil. Pi. 
Br. Ind. i. 401, in part (excl. syn. Acronodia punctata, Bl.). 
Malacca; Griffith, No. 681; Maingay, No. 261, (Kew Distrib.). 
Singapore; Hullett, Ridley. Perak; common at low elevations, Kino-’s 
Collector, Scortechini, Wray. 
This is a true Acronodia allied to A. punctata, Bl. ( = Flaeocarpus 
punctatus, King, not of Wall.) but is distinguished by its less acuminate 
longer petiolate leaves, slightly difierent flowers and smaller more glo- 
bose fruit. This occurs at low elevations and is a tree whereas the 
other is a shrub and is found as high as 7000 feet. 
Excluded species. 
El^ocarpus punctatus, Wall. Cat. 2676 is, (as Kurz pointed out) 
no Eheocarpus but a Parinarinm. Maingay’s Nos. 621 and 621/2 (Kew 
Distribution) seem to be conspecific with it. 
