1895.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 125 
Perak ; Scortechini, King’s Collector. 
This species is closely allied to M. Kleinii , which is a common 
plant in the forests at the base of the Assam Hill Ranges. This differs 
from M. Kleinii chiefly in its fruit having a long apical tail which is 
quite absent in the former. The male flowers also differ in the two 
species. The genus Miquelia was founded by Meissner (Plant. Vase. 
Genera) ; but Griffith, over-looking Meissner’s description, published M. 
Kleinii under the name Jenkinsia Assamica , in 1844, in the Calcutta 
Journal of Natural History, Vol. 4. 231, t. 12. A description and figure 
of the female flowers are to be found in the same author’s Notulse , 370 ; 
and a figure in his leones, t. 537, fig. 2. Wallich issued the Assam plant 
as No. 6760 of his Catalogue under the name Zanonia ? oblonga. 
18. Sarcostigma, W. and Arn. 
Climbing shrubs. Wood without zones. Leaves alternate, simple, 
shortly petioled, much reticulate Flowers dioecious, minute, arranged 
in glomeruli along a long pendulous racliis. Male fl. : Calyx minute, 
cupular, 4-5 lobed. Petals 5, free, or nearly so, valvate, oblong, ultimately 
reflexed. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals, free, or adnate to the 
base of the petals, filaments glabrous ; anthers ovate, sagittate, erect, 
2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Pistil rudimentary. Female fl. : 
Calyx and corolla as in the male, but shorter and more fleshy. Staminodes 
4-5, hypogynous, alternate with the petals. Ovary superior, sessile, 
1-celled; stigma sub-sessile, discoid or umbonate; ovules 2, collateral, 
pendulous, funicle thick. Drupe oblong, more or less compressed, sur¬ 
rounded at the base by the persistent calyx and corolla ; epicarp coria¬ 
ceous ; endocarp woody, lined with a thin white membrane. Seed 
(according to Baillou) pendulous, exalbuminous; cotyledons fleshy, 
wrapping round the short superior radicle.— Distrib. Species 3 or 4, all 
tropical Asiatic. 
Sarcostigma Wallichii, H. Brongn. in Adansonia, X, 282. A power¬ 
ful climber ; young branches pale, puberulous at first, afterwards gla¬ 
brous like all the other parts except the inflorescence and fruit. Leaves 
coriaceous, shining, much reticulate, oblong to broadly ovate, acute, the 
base narrowed, under surface sometimes sparsely pubescent; main nerves 
5 to 7 pairs, much curved, ascending ; length 4 to 7 in., breadth T5 to 
4’5 in., petiole '4 to ’6 in. Spikes of male flowers axillary or extra-axil¬ 
lary, solitary or in fascicles, often nearly as long as the leaves, softly 
rufous-tomentose ; flowers T to *15 in. long, sessile. Calyx a membra¬ 
nous, obscurely-toothed cup, rufous pubescent outside, glabrous inside. 
Petals about four times as long as the calyx, lanceolate, spreading, 
slightly united at the base, the apices indexed, pubescent outside, gla- 
