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2895.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
below the month, included. Ovary narrowly elliptic; the style long, 
cylindric ; sligma capitate with a large central mamilla. Fruit transver¬ 
sely oblong, tapering to each end, the upper end compressed, acute, the 
lower terete, minutely rusty-tomentose ; seeds two, sub-compressed, ‘5 
in. in diam., length (including the tapering ends) nearly 2 in., breadth 
*75 in. C. DeCand. Mon. Phan. I, 535. 
Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No 363. Perak: Scortechini. 
Distrib : Sumatra, Borneo. 
The fruit of this is very peculiar, being in shape something like a 
spear-head. The central part, in which the two seeds are contained, 
is transversely-oblong and thick ; above this is a long compressed coni¬ 
cal prolongation filled with a little pulp, while at the base the fruit is 
gradually narrowed into a stalk. The sparsely-flowered spike-like in¬ 
florescence is also peculiar in the genus. 
2. Chisocheton pauciflorus, King, n. sp. A shrub or small tree; 
young shoots slender, puberulous, the bark dark when dry. Leaves 
5 to 15 in. long, equally pinnate ; leaflets thinly coriaceous, 2 rarely 
3 pairs, oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, sometimes ovate or elliptic, 
shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, the base cuneate; the upper 
surface glabrous, shining; the lower dull, glabrescent, reticulate, puberu¬ 
lous on the midrib and nerves; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, ascending, 
curving, slightly prominent beneath; length 2'5 to 9 in., breadth 1 to 
4 in., petiolules T to '2 in. Panicles or racemes from 1 to 3*5 in. long, 
extra-axillary, puberulous, 2- to 6-flowered. Flowers about '9 in., long ; 
their pedicels '25 to '5 in., puberulous. Calyx fleshy, tubular, the mouth 
entire and truncate or with 4 or 5 shallow teeth, tomentose, about *25 
in. long. Petals 4 or usually 6, free, about '8 in. long, fleshy, spathu- 
late-elliptic or elliptic, blunt, minutely tomentose outside, glabrous in¬ 
side. S'taminal tube nearly as long as the petals, sub-glabrous, obscure¬ 
ly toothed at the mouth ; the anthers from 4 to 8 or 10, varying with 
the number of petals, small, elliptic, included. Disc small, flat, tomen¬ 
tose. Ovary conical, tapering into the long cylindric style, sometimes 
narrowly cylindric (probably abortive). Stigma cylindric, obscurely 4- 
lobed at the apex. Fruit (unripe), elliptic, with a stout acute apical 
beak, tapered at the base, everywhere tomentose, the calyx persistent 
and slightly accrescent. 
Perak: Scortechini; Wray, No. 2681; King’s Collector, Nos. 3128, 
3313, 3396, 3467 and 4455. 
This species resembles G. spicatus , Hiern, in leaves; but has much 
larger flowers. Its fruit is as yet unknown. This also resembles G. di- 
versifolius, Miq., in leaves, but has larger flowers. 
3. Chisooheton Kunstleri, King, n. sp. A shrub 6 to 20 feet 
