1895.] G. King— Materials fo r a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 131 
Pteleocarpa malaccensis, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 
515, t. 42. A tree ; young branches terete, glabrous, slender ; all parts 
except the puberulous inflorescence glabrous. Leaves membranous, 
oblanceolate or oblanceolate-oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the 
base much narrowed ; midrib prominent beneath, the 5 or 6 pairs of 
curving spreading main nerves obscure on both surfaces ; length 3 to 45 
in., breadth L25 to 1*5 in., petiole *6 to *75 in. Panicles terminal, um- 
bellately cymose, spreading, many-flowered, 1*5 to 2*5 in. in diam.; 
bracts minute, deciduous. Pedicels T5 to '25 in. long, filiform, ascend¬ 
ing, lengthening in fruit. Flowers yellow, (or red ?) *3 in., in diam. 
Calyx-lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, puberulous. Corolla four times as 
long as the calyx, its tube short, the lobes deep, oblong, obtuse. Stamens 
as long as the corolla; the filaments slender, glabrous, the anthers 
elliptic. Ovary on a short thick stalk, oblong, glabrous, compressed, 
slightly furrowed, obtuse. Fruit 1*25 to 1*65 in. long, the calyx per¬ 
sistent at the base not quite so broad. Seed '5 in. long : embryo much 
shorter than the albumen. Beccari, Malesia, I, 130; Miq. FI. Ind. 
Bat. Suppl. 511. 
Malacca ; Maingay. Penang ; Curtis, Nos. 835 and 1494. Perak ; 
Wray, No. 3418. Singapore ; Hullett, Nos. 3609 and 3610. 
I have seen an authentic specimen of Dodoncea Lamponga , Miq. 
(FI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 511) and there can be no doubt that it belongs 
to this or to a closely allied species. It was collected by Teysmann in 
Eastern Sumatra. Beccari has described (Malesia, I, 130) a species 
(P- longistyla ) from Borneo, which appears to differ from P. malaccensis by 
the length of its styles and the shortness of the filaments of its stamens. 
22. Cardiopteris, Wall. 
Herbaceous, scandent, glabrous, the juice milky. Leaves alternate, 
long-petiolate, simple, pal minerved. Flowers small, hermaphrodite 
regular, in axillary long sparse few-branched panicles. Calyx 5-partite, 
the lobes imbricate, persistent in the fruit, but very slightly accrescent. 
Corolla very deciduous, sub-campanulate, deeply 5-lobed, imbricate. Sta¬ 
mens attached to the short tube of the corolla and alternate with its lobes ; 
filaments short, glabrous ; anthers 2-celled, introrse, with vertical dehis¬ 
cence. Disk none. Pistil free, cylindrical, slightly compressed, 1-celled : 
crowned by two stigmas, the one stipitate short and capitate, the other 
elongating after flowering. Ovules 2 (1 usually aborted), pendulous from 
the apex of the ovary. Fruit samaroid, obovate, oblong, emarginate at 
the apex ; the nucleus narrow, elongate, prolonged laterally into mem¬ 
branous, horizontally striate wings and crowned by the columnar accres¬ 
cent stigma. Seed solitary, pendulous, linear, sulcate, with thin testa, 
