1895.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 75 
21. Aglaia Griffithii, Knrz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1875, 
p. 146. A tree 30 to 50 feet high.; young branches petioles, rachises, 
petiolules and inflorescences densely clothed with minute rusty stellate 
pubescence. Leaves 12 to 18 in. long, unequally pinnate ; leaflets 13 to 
19, opposite or sub-opposite, narrowly elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 
often slightly oblanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base rounded or 
snb-cuneate : upper surface glabrous except the rusty tomentose midrib, 
the nerves inconspicuous; lower surface sparsely stellate-pubescent, 
the midrib and 10 to 12 pairs of bold curved spreading nerves tomen¬ 
tose ; length 2*5 to 5 or even 6 in., breadth 1 to 1'4 in., petiolules about 
*15 in. Panicles solitary, axillary, spreading, many-branched, many* 
flowered. Flowers about *025 in. in diam., depressed-globular, broader 
than long. Calyx cupular with 5 deep broad lobes, pubescent out¬ 
side. Petals 5, twice as long as the calyx, concave, glabrous. Staminal 
tube shorter than the petals, glabrous ; anthers 5, ovate, partly exserted. 
Ovary pubescent; stigma depressed-hemispheric. Fruit pyriform, densely 
covered with sub-deciduous rusty scurfy stellate tomentum, 1*75 in 
long, and 1*25 in. in diam. Kurz For. Flora Burma I, 219. A . 
minutiflora Bedd. var. Griflithii , Hiern in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 557 : 
C. DC. in Phaner. Monogr. I, 616. 
Malacca: Griffith, Nos. 1039 and 1040 : Maingay, No. 334-2 (No. 334 
is A. cordata , Hiern). Perak: Scortechini, Wray, King’s Collector, 
Nos. 4231, 6282, 6341, 6346, 10285, 10925, 10957. 
The flowers of this are less than half the size of those of A. minu¬ 
tiflora Bedd.—a plant of Western Peninsular India, of which Mr. Hiern 
and M. C. De Candolle make this a variety. On dissecting male flowers of 
an authentic specimen of Beddome’s plant I find, however, that not only 
are the flowers larger, but they are of a different shape, being globular- 
obovoid, while those of this plant are depressed-globular and broader 
than long. The calyx of this, moreover, is about half as long as the 
petals, while the calyx of Beddome’s plant is not more than a third or a 
fourth of the length of its petals. Moreover, the leaflets of A. minu¬ 
tiflora Bedd., are less numerous than in this plant, and the tomentum 
on their lower surface is much more dense. The fruit hitherto described 
as belonging to this plant, is that issued from Kew as No. 334 of 
Maingay’s Herbarium. That fruit, however, does not belong to this 
species, but to A. cordata , Maing. It is globular and, in size as well as 
in shape, greatly resembles that of A. minutiflora. The true fruit of 
this ( now described for the first time) is pyriform and much larger 
than that of A. minutiflora. On account of these differences, I therefore 
follow Kurz in regarding this as a distinct species from the latter. 
22. Aglaia membeanifolia, King, n. sp. A tree 20 to 60 feet high. 
