1895.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 123 
8 in. long, and from *75 to 1*25 in. broad; the ultimate branches 
consisting of minute clustered, 6- to 10-flowered, pedicellate umbel- 
lules; bracts from the bases of the pedicels of the umbellules, *4 
or '5 in. long, subulate, curved, hispid. Flowers sessile, *05 in. in 
diam. Bracteoles of the involucel 3, deltoid, their apices broad and bifid, 
glabrous on the inner, densely villose on the outer surface. Pieces 
of the perianth 4, free, ovate-lanceolate, acute, smaller than the sepals, 
valvate. Stamens shorter than the perianth, the anthers broad. Rudi¬ 
mentary ovary minute, villous. Female flowers ( fide Griffith) in oblong 
or spherical pedunculate capitula of which there are several in a leaf- 
axil. Style short, tri-partite; the segments revolute, stigmatiferous on 
the inner surface. Ovary strigose, 1-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules. 
Drupes ovoid, tapering to each end, densely covered with adpressed 
yellowish bristles, 1*5 in. long, and ’75 in. in diam., 1-celled, crowded 
in dense pendulous globose capitula as large as a man’s head. Seed 
solitary, albumen fleshy, radicle broad ; cotyledons small, orbicular. Baill. 
in DO. Prod. XVII, 12; Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. I, 592; Kurz For. Flora 
Burmah I, 212 ; Beccari Malesia, I, 127 : Wall. Cat. No. 4947. P. macro- 
carpa , Griff. Notul. IV, 322: Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 487 and 488. Gynocephalum 
brcTcteatum , Tree, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, VIII, 149, No, 3. 
Penang; Porter, Curtis. Malacca; Griffith. Perak ; King’s Col¬ 
lectors. Singapore ; Maingay, Ridley.— Distrib. Borneo. 
3. Phytocrene palmata, Wall. PI. As. Rar. Ill, 12. Stem minutely 
prickly ; the younger branches rufous-hispid, striate. Leaves coriaceous? 
reniform, deeply 5-lobed ; the lobes oblong, acuminate or acute ; upper 
surface glabrous, the lower densely covered with soft course rufous or 
yellowish hairs; main nerves 5 to 7, palmate, prominent on the upper, 
depressed on the lower surface ; length 7 to 12 in., breadth about the 
same ; petioles 3 to 5 in., densely ferruginous-pilose. Panicles of male 
flowers axillary, 2 5 to 13 in. long, and about P5 in. broad, the ultimate 
branches consisting of minute 12- to 15-flowered, pedicelled, ebracteate 
umbellules ; pedicels T5 in. long, softly pubescent. Male flowers as in 
P. oblong a. Female flowers in shortly pedunculate axillary ovoid capitula, 
*5 in. in diam.; the peduncle *25 in. long, pilose. Flowers *2 in. long, ses¬ 
sile. Bracteoles of the involucel of two deltoid bifid pieces : corolla 0. Ovary 
ovoid, pointed, densely hirsute. Brupes numerous, ellipsoid, slightly obo- 
void, tapering much to the base, the apex acute, the whole surface more 
or less densely covered with yellowish shining stiff hairs ; P5 to 2 in. 
long, and *75 in.in diam., collected in sub-globular heads 3 or 4 in, 
in diam., Baill. in DC. Prod. XVII, 11 ; Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. 
Ill, 248 ; Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 592; Beccari Malesia, I, 127. Gyno¬ 
cephalum palmatum , Tree, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, VIII, 149 : Wall. 
Cat., 4949. 
