124 G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula . [No. 1 , 
Penang ; Wallich, Curtis. Malacca; Griffith. Perak; King’s Col¬ 
lector, Wray. 
17. Miquelia, Meissner. 
Climbing shrubs, the wood with large vessels. Leaves alternate, 
simple, entire or dentate, petiolate, penni-nerved. Flowers dioecious, the 
males pedicellate and in clustered umbels, the females sessile and in 
solitary capitula. Male flowers each on a long pedicel with a whorl 
of minute brncteoles at its base. Perianth 5-merous, the pieces oblong 
or lanceolate, free or united at the base, valvate. Stamens equal to the 
pieces of the perianth and alternate with them ; filaments short, anthers 
linear-oblong, 2-celled, introrse, disk 0. Rudimentary pistil small. 
Female flowers ;—bracteoles as in the male, sometimes united by their 
bases. Flowers sessile, the perianth deeply divided into 4 fleshy lanceo¬ 
late reflexed segments. Bisk none. Ovary solitary, compressed, crowned 
by the large discoid stigma, 1- celled, with 2 pendulous collateral ovules, 
raphe dorsal, radicle superior. Drupe oblong, more or less compressed, 
the calyx persistent at its base, the mesocarp thin ; the endocarp crus- 
taceous, rugose externally, often verrucose internally. Seed suspended, 
solitary, with thin testa, albumen fleshy rugulose, radicle superior • 
cotyledons elliptic, thick, leafy. Species about 5 Indian and Malayan. 
1. Miquelia caudata, King, n. sp. A slender climber 10 to 20 feet 
long; branches thin, pale, striate. Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceo¬ 
late, shortly acuminate, the base narrowed; upper surface glabrous, the 
lower puberulous especially on the midrib and 5 or 6 pairs of spread¬ 
ing, curving, ascending or spreading main nerves; length 5 to 8 in., 
breadth 1'5 to 2 in., petiole *5 to '65 in. Umbels of male floivers '65 to 
1 in. long, in fascicles from pilose tubercles on the stem, axillary or 
extra-axillary. Bracteoles of involucel of each flower 4 or 5, free or 
united at the base, lanceolate, pilose. Pedicels of flower *15 to *2 in. 
long, pubescent. Flowers ’15 in. in diam., the segments of the peri- 
anth spreading, puberulous; filaments shorter than the linear-oblong 
sagittate anthers. Rudimentary ovary minute, hirsute. Gapitules of 
female flowers '25 in. long, ovoid, solitary, axillary; their peduncles 2 to 
2'5 in. long, puberulous. Flowers sessile, '15 in. in diam.; perianth 
leathery, glabrous. Ovary tomentose; the stigma discoid, depressed 
in the centre, wider than the ovary, glabrous. Drupe broadly ovoid, 
slightly compressed, rounded and broad at the base, tapering upwards 
into a long terminal tail crowned by the persistent stigma ; epicarp 
thin, rusty-pubescent on the surface ; endocarp bony, rough, and pitted 
on the outer surface, smooth and tubercled ou the inner; length from 
base to apex 1 to 1'25 in., breadth at base '6 in. 
