1895.] G. King —Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 105 
the lobes of the perianth and opposite to them. Anthers glabrous. 
Staminodes 0. Dish fleshy, yellow, lining the perianth-tube. Ovary 
free, oblong-conical; stigma sessile, 4-lobed; ovule solitary. Fruit 
drupaceous, glabrous, endocarp crustaceous. Seed erect; embryo small, 
in the axis of fleshy albumen, radicle terete, cotyledons ternate.— Distrib. 
Species 2, natives of Tropical Asia. 
Lepionurus sylvestris, Blume Bijdr. 1148. A glabrous shrub; the 
branches sub-striate, pale when dry. Leaves membranous, oblong, elliptic- 
oblong or elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; main nerves 7 
to 9 pairs, rather straight, ascending ; length 4 to 6'5 in., breadth T4 
to 35 in., petiole *15 to '35 in. Spikes axillary, 5 to T25 in. long, soli¬ 
tary, or in clusters of 2 to 6, their rachises filiform, at first enveloped 
by the large ovate acute, membranous, deciduous bracts. Flowers 
long, the tube inflated and lined by the adherent disc ; the lobes deltoid, 
spreading when mature. Anthers and filaments broad. Fruit ellipsoid 
to ovoid, *35 to *6 in. long when ripe. Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 
246 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat., Vol. I, Pt. I, 284 ; Lepionurus oblongi- 
folius , Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. 583 ; Valeton, Olacineae, 153. 
Leptonium oblong ifolium, Griff, in Calc. Journ. IV, 236. Opilia acumi¬ 
nata , Wall. Cat. 7206, also Wall. Cat. 7464. 
Malacca, Penang, Perak, rather common. Distrib. —British India 4 
Burma, Malayan Archipelago. 
I have not been able to make out, from dissections of dried speci¬ 
mens, the exact attachment of the ovule. But the ripe seed is unques¬ 
tionably attached to the base of the cavity of the fruit. Whether the 
ovule was originally erect, or was attached in a pendulous manner, as 
some botanists assert, from the apex of a short central placenta, I am 
unable to say. The genus in my opinion is closely allied to Gansjera. 
8. Ctenolophon, Oliv. 
Trees. Ljeaves opposite, petiolate, simple, penni-nerved. Inflores¬ 
cence panicled-cymose. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-part- 
ed ; lobes imbricate, not accrescent. Petals 5, free, imbricate, oblong, 
reflexed after flowering. Stamens 10, free, springing from a short, ring¬ 
like, hypogynous disk, those opposite the petals longer than the others ; 
anthers roundish, apiculate, 2-celled, dehiscing lengthwise. Staminodes 
0. Ovary free, shortly stalked, imperfectly 2-celled ; style cylindric, bifid 
at the apex, stigmas capitate ; ovules in pairs in each cell, collateral, 
pendulous. Fruit coriaceous or crustaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded, dehiscing 
irregularly. Seed pendulous from the apex of a free central placenta, 
and provided with a dorsal pectinate crest.— Distrib. 2 known species, 
both Malayan. 
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