1895.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula . 113 
breadth *4 to J’5 in., petiole *15 to *3 in. Cymes axillary and terminal, 
their pedicels several times as long as the petioles, usually 3, tricho- 
tomous; the cymules 3- to 10-flowered, pubescent or glabrescent. 
Flowers sessile, *15 in. long, buds clavate with truncate apices. Calyx 
cupular, with 3 or 4 small obscure teeth. Petals and stamens of the 
male flowers and female flowers as in G. penangiana. Lasianthera 
lanceolata, Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 585. Stemonurus tomentella , 
Valeton (not of Beccari) Olacineae, 237. 
Malacca: on Mount Ophir, Griffith. Perak: King’s Collector, 
Wray, Scortechini, common. 
This is rather a variable species as regards the form of leaf and 
the amount of pubescence on the inflorescence, but the characters of 
the flowers are constant. For two of the best-marked of these forms 
I propose varietal names as below. 
Yar. angustifolia , King: leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 
6 in. long, and ‘4 to *7 in. broad: fruit ovoid with a long apiculus, also 
contracted at the base, ‘5 in. long. Wall. Cat. Olacineae , No. 7570. 
Singapore, Wallich. Penang, Curtis, Nos. 737 and 1265. Perak : 
Scortechini, King’s Collector, No. 4211. 
Yar. triplinervis , the two lower lateral main nerves bold and con¬ 
tinued nearly to the apex of the leaf. 
Perak; Scortechini, No. 375. 
3. Gomphandra penangiana, Wall. Cat. 7204. A glabrous or sub- 
glabrous shrub 3 to 8 feet high; young shoots thin, pale. Leaves short¬ 
ly membranous, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic, shortly acuminate, 
the base cuneate; main nerves 5 to 9 pairs, spreading or ascending, 
slightly prominent; length 4'5 to 7 in., breadth 1*5 to 2*75 in., petiole 
*25 to ‘35 in. Cymes extra-axillary or leaf-opposed, pubescent, tricho- 
tomous, spreading, many-flowered, their peduncles longer than the 
petioles, erect. Flowers # 15 in. long, on short glabrous or pubescent 
pedicels. Calyx a shallow glabrous cup with 3 or 4 obscure broad 
teeth. Corolla in bud cylindric-clavate, the apex truncate, four or five 
times as long as the calyx, glabrous. Petals 4, oblanceolate (the apex 
indexed), hyaline. Filaments flat, thick, tapering to each end, with a 
tuft of few long pale glandular hairs near the apex behind the insertion 
of the anther. Rudimentary ovary narrowly ovate, small, half-immersed 
in the deep fleshy lobed disk. Cymes of female flowers longer than the 
males, secund; calyx as in the male : corolla absent. Ovary elongate, 
cylindric, glabrous, crowned by a large discoid stigma wider than itself, 
one-celled with 2 elongated ovules pendulous from the apex. Fruit 
ovoid or elliptic, constricted at base and apex, vertically ridged, gla¬ 
brous, crowned by the persistent stigma, *5 to *7 in. long. Masters in 
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