i 10 Gf. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
glabrous ovary ; stigma small, minutely lobed. Fruit ovoid, glabrescent, 
•6 in. long, with the persistent disc at its apex and the slightly ac¬ 
crescent calyx at its base. Kurz For. Flora Burma I, 235 : Valeton 
Olacinese 93. 
Nicobar Islands, Kurz. 
Var. Andamanica. Leaves ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, main 
nerves 4 to 6 pairs, spreading, not pale underneath. 
Andaman Islands : King’s Collectors. 
The specimens on which Kurz founded this species are in the 
Calcutta Herbarium. They were collected in the Nicobar Islands al¬ 
though Kurz, by a slip, attributes them to the Andamans. These 
Nicobar specimens are distinguished from all which have, since 
Kurz’s time, been collected in the Andamans (where the plant is 
very common) by the smaller number of nerves in the leaves, which 
are, moreover, ascending and pale beneath, whereas these from the An¬ 
damans have more numerous nerves which are spreading and are not 
pale beneath. 
3. Anacolosa heptandra, Maing. mss. ex Hook. FI. Ind. I, 581. 
A shrub or tree ; young branches stout, with pale scurfy bark. Leaves 
coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, sub-acute at base and apex, glabrous; 
main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, ascending, obsolete on the upper, rather 
prominent on the lower surface ; length 6 or 7 in., breadth 2‘25 to 3 in., 
petiole ‘3 in. Flowers in crowded axillary cymes not much exceeding the 
petioles ; 'pedicels short, rufous-pubescent like the calyx, ebracteolate. 
Calyx cupular, with 6 minute distant teeth. The other parts of the 
Flower as in A . puberula , but the ovary narrower, and the anthers more 
hairy, not merely tufted with hairs. Valeton Olacineac, 93. 
Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 368. 
This species of which I have seen only two specimens (neither of 
which is in fruit) comes very near to A. 'puberula. The young branches 
however, are thicker, with paler bark, and have the anthers more hairy 
than in that species. 
12. Platea, Blume. 
Trees. Leaves entire, coriaceous. Male flowers in short axillary 
interrupted-glomerulose spikes ; the females in shorter cymes. Flowers 
polygamo-dicecious. Sepals 5, distinct, imbricate, small. Petals 5, 
united below into a tube, the teeth valvate ; in the female deciduous 
or absent. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals and inserted at their 
bases ; the filaments short, anthers ovoid, 2-celled. Ovary in the female 
flower cylindric, oblong, obtuse, crowned by the large discoid stigma, 
1-celled ; the ovules 2, pendulous. Drupe baccate, the endocarp woody. 
