1895.] G. King —Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 47 
8, included, elongate-elliptic, alternate with the lobes. Disc cylindric, 
short blit longer than the ovary, thinly fleshy, crenulate, glabrous. 
Ovary depressed, 4-celled, sericeous as is the base of the short stout 
style ; stigma slightly exserted, discoid. Fruit (young) narrowly obo- 
void, shortly apiculate, narrowed at the base into a pseudo-stalk, ob¬ 
scurely 4-angled, densely but minutely tawny-tomentose, 1*5 in. long, in¬ 
cluding the pseudo-stalk. C. DC. Monog. Phan. I, 499. Epicharis densiflora, 
Blume Bijdr. 167 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, p. 539. Epicharis 
altissima , Blume ex Miq. l.c. Guarea densiflora , Spreng., Syst. IY, 251. 
Perak : King’s Collector, Nos. 4934, 8826, 10093 and 10443. Wray 
No. 437. Scort echini, No. 1661. Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 
In the youngest stages the fruit is ovoid : as it ripens it becomes 
obovoid and the base becomes narrowed into a pseudo-stalk. 
14. Dysoxylum cuneatum, Hiern in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 551. 
A large tree. Leaves 18 to 30 in. long, unequally pinnate ; leaflets about 
13, sub-coriaceous, opposite or sub-opposite, elliptic-oblong, shortly 
cuspidate; the base cuneate, unequal-sided ; both surfaces glabrous, the 
lower punctate ; main nerves 14 to 17 pairs, spreading, slightly promi¬ 
nent beneath when dry ; length 4 to 7 in., breadth 2 to 3 in. ; petiolules 
'15 in., stout, that of the terminal leaflet '75 in. Spikes cinereous- 
tomentose, only a few inches long in flower, but elongating much in fruit, 
(from the branches below the leaves ?) clustered. Flowers '35 in. long, 
sub-sessile, bracteolate. Calyx half as long as the petals, campanulate, 
with 4 obtuse irregular deep teeth, pubescent. Petals 4, oblong, sub- 
imbricate, sub-glabrous S'taminal-tube longer than the petals, glabres- 
cent outside, villous inside, the mouth with 8 obtuse shallow teeth. 
Anthers 8, shortly ovate, included. Disc membranous, tubular, about 
as long as the ovary, glabrous outside, pubescent inside, its mouth mi¬ 
nutely crenulate. Ovary ovoid-conic, pilose; style cylindric, sparsely 
pilose in the lower part, glabrous above, stigma discoid with an annu¬ 
lus at its base. Fruiting-spike half as long as the leaves : ripe fruit sub- 
globose, about 1 in. in diam., sub-glabrous, the pericarp splitting into 
about 4 valves ; seeds oblong, plano-convex, *75 in. long, C. DC. in Mon. 
Phan I, 496. 
Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib. \ No. 322-2. 
Known only by Maingay\s scanty specimens ; allied to D. cauliflorum 
in inflorescence flowers and fruit. 
15. Dysoxylum racemosum, King n. sp. A shrub, all parts gla¬ 
brous except the young shoots and the inflorescence. Leaves 12 to 18 
in. long, equally pinnate. Leaflets membranous, alternate, elliptic- 
oblong, the apex shortly acuminate, the base broad, sliglitly unequal ; 
main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, curving, spreading, slightly prominent beneath, 
