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1895.] G. King —Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
by an annular band. Fruit (unripe) ovate, tomentose, on a very short 
thick stalk, *75 in. diam.; the apex with a curved thick blunt beak. 
C. De Cand. Mon. Phan. I, 536. Melia penduliflora, Wall. Cat. No. 1255. 
Penang; Porter, Curtis. Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 
325. Perak; Scortecliini, Wray, King’s Collector. 
In this species the flowers are of two kinds. One set, which are 
longer than the other, are very conspicuously clavate, the lower part 
being filiform; in these the ovary is small and infertile and the stamens 
are included. The other set have shorter thicker less clavate flowers, 
fertile ovaries, and exserted stamens. 
5. Chisocheton rubiginosus, King n. sp. A tree 20 to 30 feet 
high. Leaves 2 to 3 feet long, the petiole and rachises tawny-tomentose, 
sub-compressed. Leaflets 4 to 8 pairs, coriaceous, sub-opposite, elliptic 
to oblong, very shortly acuminate, slightly narrowed to the rounded mi¬ 
nutely sub-cordate base : upper surface glabrous, except the tomentose 
midrib and main nerves, sub-reticulate ; the lower reticulate, rusty-pubes¬ 
cent; main nerves 12 to 18 pairs, spreading, rather straight, prominent 
beneath ; length 5 to 12 in., breadth 25 to 4 in., petiolules about *1 in. 
Panicles spike-like, supra-axillary, about half as long as the leaves, on 
long peduncles, the branches very short and crowded near the apex, brac- 
teolate. Flowers rather crowded, 1*25 to 1*5 in. long, on very short 
pubescent pedicels. Calyx cylindric, cup-like ; the mouth truncate, entire 
or with 8 or 10 shallow irregular teeth; tomentose outside, glabrous inside. 
Petals usually 7 sometimes 8 or 9, linear, sub-spathulate, slightly concave 
and thickened at the apex, 1 to 1*25 in. long, tomentose externally, 
glabrous internally. Staminal tube shorter than the petals and free from 
them, narrowly cylindric and glabrous below, slightly expanded and 
pubescent at the mouth; mouth with 10 to 15 linear erect teeth: anthers 
from 10 to 15, elongate, alternating with the teeth and of about the 
same length. Ovary ovoid, sericeous like the cylindric style; stigma 
cylindric. Fruit (unripe) ovoid, rugose, densely rusty-tomentose, 1'5 in. 
long. 
Perak: Scortecliini, Wray, King’s Collector. 
This species is allied to C. princeps , Hemsl., but has a different 
inflorescence and smaller leaves. I think it possible that this may be 
Melia tomentosa Roxb., a species from Penang, of which there is no speci¬ 
men extant, but of which there is a drawing (reduced in size) in the 
Calcutta Herbarium. The only serious discrepancy is that Roxburgh 
describes and figures only five petals ; whereas in all the Perak specimens 
which I have examined there are at least 7, and in many 8, or 9, and in 
one even 10 petals. 
6. Chisocheton princeps, Hemsley in Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 1844. 
