130 G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula . [No. 1, 
has 3 parietal multi-ovulate placentas, while the fruit is a 3-valved many-seeded 
capsule. Planchon [Ann. des Sc. Nat. Ser. IV. Bot., Yol. II, p. 260 (1854,)] suggests 
the formation of a natural order for the reception of the single species Erythro¬ 
palum, a suggestion followed by Miquel; while Baillon puts it (along with Olacineee 
Santalacese, Ampelideae , Styraceae, and Loranthese proper) into his order Loranthac6es. 
Messrs. Hooker and Bentham put Erythropalum into Olacineae, where, in spite 
of its affinities with the Cornaceous genus Nyssa, it may be left for the present, 
although its inferior fruit makes its inclusion in Olacineae rather an anomaly. To 
this genus also without doubt belong Decastrophia, Griffith (Notulae IY, 737); Ery- 
thropalla, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor, 191; and in all probability (as Yalenton sug¬ 
gests) the obscure plant named Balingayum decumbens by Blanco (FI. de Filip. 187.) 
1. Erythropalum scandens, Blume Bijdr. 921. Leaves membranous, 
ovate-oblong or elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, tbe base round¬ 
ed or minutely cordate, sub-peltate; basal nerves 3 to 5, two of 
them minute ; lateral nerves about 4 pairs, distant, faint: length 3 to G 
in., breadth 1*75 to 3 75 in., petiole '75 to 1’75 in. Tendrils (abortive 
peduncles) simple or bifid, thickened upwards. Cymes slender, shorter 
than the leaves, divaricate, the peduncles long. Flowers under *1 in. in 
diam. Fruit oblong, ellipsoid or slightly obovoid, glabrous, the epicarp 
yellowish. Seed large, ovoid, without testa. Miq. El. Ind. Bat. I, Pt, 2, 
704; Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 578; Pierre For. Flor. Coch. Chine, t. 
269 A ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 234; Yaleton Olacineee 132 ; Wall. 
Cat. 7539 Menisperma ?; also No. 9033 (without name). Cocculus 
calophyllus, Wall. MSS. 
Malacca, Perak:— Distrib. Java, Burmah, Tropical Himalaya, 
Khasia Hills. 
Closely allied to, if not identical with, this is E. vagum, Mast. And 
E. populifolium Mast. (Wall. Cat. Nos. 1233 bis. and 2248 ; Passijlora 
Hey neana, Wall.) 
21. Pteleocarpa, Oliv. 
Trees. Leaves alternate, simple, penni-nerved, petiolate. Inflor¬ 
escence terminal, panicled, many-flowered. Flowers regular, dichlamy- 
deous, hermaphrodite. Calyx tubular below, limb deeply 5-parted, lobes 
imbricate, not accrescent. Corolla tubular below-limb deeply 5-parted, 
lobes imbricate, glabrous. Stamens 5, glabrous, attached to the tube 
of the corolla, alternate with its lobes ; anthers linear-oblong, innate, 
dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary free, stipitate, 2-celled ; styles 2, 
stigmas small; ovules solitary in each cell, pendulous, anatropal, raphe 
lateral or subventral. Fruit 2-celled, samaroid, orbicular, emarginate ; 
the wings broad, thin, striate. Seed elongate, much compressed, albu¬ 
minous ; radicle superior, cylindrical; cotyledons linear-lanceolate, longer 
than the radicle.— Distrib. Species 2, both Malayan. 
