1895.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 101 
than the leaves, narrow, sometimes branched, axillary, interrupted. 
Flowers on short pedicels with minute ovate, acute bracts at the 
base; oblong-ovate in bud, less than *1 in. long. Petals ovate, glabrous 
outside with a few coarse hairs inside. Ovary vertically striate. Fruit 
ovoid-pyriform, 1*25 in. long, and *8 in. in diam. ; the pericarp glabrous, 
thin, the endocarp bony, with one large cell and a single seed. Valeton, 
Olacinese, 104. Petalinia bancana , Beccari in Malesia, I, 257. 
In all the provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 
Common.— Disteib. Borneo. 
This is a very common tree in the Malayan Peninsular where its 
vernacular name is “ Petaling.” The same name is applied to it in 
Borneo, and of this name Beccari’s Petalinia is an adaptation. 
4. Bracea, nov. gen. King. 
Arboreous; leaves alternate, simple, entire, petiolate. Panicles 
few-branclied, axillary or terminal, nearly as long as or longer than the 
leaves. Flowers hermaphrodite, small, shortly pedicelled, scattered or 
sub-glomerulate, minutely bracteolate. Calyx of 5, free, imbricate, 
broad, non-accrescent, campanulate sepals. Petals 5, hypogynous, slightly 
united at the base, much imbricate, glabrous. Stamens 5, opposite the 
petals ; filaments shorter than the anthers, very broad. Anthers ovate, 
innate, 2-celled, with introrse longitudinal dehiscence. Staminodes 
none. Ovary broadly ovate, pyramidal, tapering to the short style, 
imperfectly 2-celled at the base, 1-celled towards the apex; • stigma 
small, 2-lobed. Ovules 2, from a short axile basilar placenta. Fruit 
drupaceous, 1-celled, with a single spuriously erect seed. 
A genus near Oclianostachys , Oliver; but with only 5 stamens, 
very different in form from those of that genus. I dedicate this to 
Mr. L. Brace, formerly Curator of the Calcutta Herbarium. 
1. Bracea paniculata, n. sp., King. A glabrous tree 50 to 70 feet 
high; young branches dark-coloured, smooth. Leaves coriaceous, ovate 
to elliptic, sub-acuminate, the base rounded ; upper surface shining, the 
lower dull; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, curved, spreading, slightly promi¬ 
nent beneath when dry; length 35 to 8‘5 in., breadth 185 to 2’75 in., 
petiole ‘65 to '8 in. Panicles with few, spreading, spike-like branches. 
Flowers T in. long, on pedicels of about the same length, glabrous, the 
calyx half as long as the corolla; petals and sepals broadly ovate. 
Stamens shorter than the petals, glabrous; dish hypogynous. Fruit 
drupaceous, ellipsoid, blunt, glabrous (unripe), *75 in. long, and *4 in. in 
diam. ; the calyx persistent at its base, but not accrescent; pericarp 
fleshy, endocarp leathery. Seed solitary, attached to the base of the 
cell. 
Perak; Scortechini, No. 288, King’s Collector, No. 8086. 
