1895.] Gr. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 93 
Flowers sub-globular, less tban ‘1 in. long. Sepals broadly ovate, blunt, 
sericeous on tlie outer, pubescent on the inner surface. Petals smaller 
than the sepals, elliptic, obtuse, shortly bifid, the lobes blunt. Filaments 
very short, the anthers ovate, the cells anterior. Ovary conical, laxly 
sericeous. Ripe drupe transversely oblong, compressed, ‘65 in. broad, 
and only ’4 in. long, minutely tomentose. Hook. til. FI. Br. Ind. I, 570. 
Langkani; Curtis, Ho. 1687.— Distrib. Burma, Wall. Cat. 4038. 
Tenasserim ; Heifer (Kew Distrib.), Ho. 2172. 
Curtis’s Langkani specimens are in fruit only, and those of Heifer’s 
Tenasserim collecting (the type of the species) are in flower only. But 
the two seem identical. I have not seen the Wallichian sheet Ho. 4038. 
5. Chailletia Laurocerasus, Planch, ex Hook. til. FI. Br. Ind. I, 
572. A scandent glabrous shrub 30 to 40 feet long ; young branches 
slender, dark-coloured. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 
obtusely acuminate, the base narrowed, upper surface shining when dry, 
the lower paler ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, spreading*, faint ; length 35 
to 4'5 in., breadth 1*5 to 2*5 in., petiole about *1 in. Cymes axillary, 
globose, few-flowered, ‘3 in. in diam., shortly pedunculate. Flowers 
*15 to 2 in. in diam. Sepals hoary outside, glabrous inside, broadly 
ovate or orbicular, concave. Petals longer than the sepals, glabrous, 
oblong, cut half way down into two oblongblunt concave slightly diver¬ 
gent segments. Filaments nearly as long as the petals ; anthers shortly 
ovate. Ovary densely lanate-sericeous, broadly ovoid; style stout, 
stigma concave. Drupes transversely oblong or globose, 1*25 in. in diam. 
when ripe, the epicarp hoary; endocarp thick, tuberuled outside, 1- or 2- 
seeded. Wall. Cat. 7513, (indeterminatse ). 
Penang ; common. Perak : King’s Collector. 
6. Chailletia andamanica, King n. sp. A small tree; young 
branches pale-brown, lenticellate, puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 
elliptic-oblanceolate or elliptic-obovate, abruptly and shortly blunt-acu¬ 
minate, much narrowed at the base ; both surfaces glabrous, minutely 
reticulate, pale when dry ; main nerves 4 to 6 pairs, much curved and 
interarching far from the edge, only slightly prominent on either sur¬ 
face ; length 3 to 4’75 in., breadth 1’25 to 2*5 in., petiole '15 to '2 in. 
Stipules lanceolate, about as long as the petiole. Flowers in dense axil¬ 
lary shortly pedunculate dichotomous cymes. Buds ovoid-globular. 
Sepals 5, sub-rotund, very concave, hoary externally, much imbricate. 
Petals 5, quadrate, not bifid, glabrous, shorter than the sepals. Sta¬ 
mens shorter than the petals, the filaments very short, anthers ovate. 
Rudimentary ovary ovoid, compressed, hairy. Female flowers not seen. 
Fruit about '5 in. broad, and ‘4 in. depth, transversely oblong, much 
compressed, puberulous, divided into two lobes by a deep vertical groove, 
