1895.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 127 
curving, ascending, prominent beneath as are the transverse nervules ; 
length 2 to 5 in., breadth 1*3 to 25 in., petiole ’4 to '6 in. Cymes both 
of male and female flowers terminal and extra-axillary, or occasionally 
axillary, usually much longer than the leaves, much-branched, and some¬ 
times bearing tendrils, softly olivaceous-pubescent; pedicels longer than 
the flowers. Male flowers less than *05 in. long, 4-merous, globular in 
bud. Calyx shorter than the corolla, with 4 acute segments, densely 
pilose outside. Corolla with 4 broadly ovate concave lobes, pilose 
outside and glabrous inside. Stamens shorter than the corolla, anthers 
broadly ovate, rudimentary ovary minute. Female flowers like the males 
but larger and with the lobes of the corolla reflexed. Ovary cylindric, 
tomentose, crowned by the broad discoid stigma, 1-celled, with 2 pendu¬ 
lous collateral ovules. Drupe elliptic, compressed, the apex with a slight 
apiculus bearing the stigma, the base narrowed; the calyx and corolla 
persistent but not enlarged, minutely velvetty ; endocarp bony, 4-angled, 
smooth inside. Seed solitary. 
Perak ; Wray, King’s Collector. 
The tetramerous very small flowers, and large velvetty fruit, dis¬ 
tinguish this species. The young branches are sub-glabrous on one 
side and densely pubescent on the other; at the nodes these two lines 
cross. 
2. Iodes VELUTINA, King, n. sp. A scandent shrub; young 
branches slender, terete, shortly rufous-pubescent, especially so oh one 
side. Leaves coriaceous, ovate, acute or very shortly acuminate; the 
base rounded, slightly emarginate; upper surface sparsely and minutely 
pilose, the midrib tomentose; lower surface densely velvetty-tomentose ; 
main nerves about 4 pairs, ascending, curved ; length 2*5 to 3*75 in., 
breadth 1’35 to 2“25 in., petiole *35 to ’6 in. Cymes axillary, terminal 
or leaf-opposed, longer than the leaves, pubescent, few-flowered, some¬ 
times bearing tendrils. Male flowers T in. long, or slightly more, 
globose-ovoid in bud, on very short pedicels. Calyx cupular, with 5 
small acute teeth. Corolla little more than twice as long as the calyx, 
with 5 deep oblong concave teeth with indexed apices, adpressed-pilose 
externally and glabrous internally like the calyx. Stamens nearly as 
long as the corolla; the filaments short, pilose, the anthers oblong. Rudi¬ 
mentary ovary ellipsoid, pilose. Drupes elongated-obovoid, compressed, 
4-angled, obtuse or retuse at the apex, the stigma persistent, much 
narrowed to the base where the corolla and calyx are persistent, minutely 
cinereous-tomentose, 1*25 in. long, and ‘5 in. broad; endocarp bony, 
more or less 8-angled, smooth inside. Seed solitary, compressed. 
Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 380, and perhaps No. 1039. 
Perak; Scortechini, Wray. 
