136 G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
surface shining, the lower dull and sub-glaucous ; main nerves 10 or 12 
pairs, sub-horizontal, faint on the lower, obsolete on the upper surface ; 
length 4 to 5'5 in., breadth i *35 to 2 in., petiole ‘4 to '65 in. Male 
flowers in pedicelled sub-umbellulate sub-racemose cymes about 1'25 in. 
long ; the buds globular, less than ’1 in. in diam. Calyx lobes 4 in the 
male, 6 in the female, rounded, not ciliate. Petals in the male 
4, broadly oblong; stamens longer than the petals and attached to their 
bases. Female flowers in short racemes; petals and stamens 6, hypogy- 
nous. jRipe drupes ovoid or globular, '2 to '25 in. in diam., grooved 
when dry; pedicels stout, as long as the drupes, pulp scanty ; pyrenes 
4 to 6, trigonous, thickly coriaceous; stigma sessile, swollen. 
Penang, Maingay; (Kew Distrib.), No. 1021; Curtis, No. 2152. 
Perak; Scortechini, King’s Collector. 
6. Ilex macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 4331. A tree 15 to 30 feet 
high; young branches stout, pale, sometimes lenticellate. Leaves cori¬ 
aceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, entire, the base 
slightly narrowed ; upper surface shining with the midrib depressed 
and the nerves obsolete; the lower dull, the 12 pairs of spreading 
nerves slightly prominent and interarching freely at some distance from 
the edge ; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 2 to 2'5 in., petiole about '5 in. 
Cymes dense, capituliform, often branching; their pedicels slender, 
axillary, longer than the petioles. Flowers *15 in. in diam., 4-6-merous. 
Calyx with broad deep teeth. Petals broadly oblong, obtuse in the male 
flowers, united at the base; in the females, free and sub-equal. Stamens 
longer than the corolla and inserted on it. Drupes sub-globular, # 2 in. 
in diam., the stigma permanent and prominent; pyrenes about 8, 
trigonous. 
Penang: Phillips, Wallich, Curtis, King’s Collector. Malacca: 
Griffith, Maingay. Singapore : Ridley. 
7. Ilex cymosa, Blume Bijdr. 1149. A glabrous tree 15 to 40 
feet high ; young branches slender, very pale. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 
elliptic-oblong to elliptic, the apex often shortly and bluntly acuminate, 
the base slightly narrowed or rounded, lower surface slightly glaucous ; 
main nerves about 6 to 8 pairs, curved, ascending : length 2'5 to 4'5 in., 
breadth 1'35 to 2'5 in., petiole '25 to '35 in. Cymes solitary, peduncu¬ 
late, branched and often paniculate, spreading, mnn} 7 -flowered, rather 
lax. Flowers *1, in. in diam. ; their pedicels slender, '25 in. long. Male 
flowers 4-5-merous ; the calyx lobes broad, rounded, ciliolate ; petals 
broadly obtuse, about as long as the stamens. Female flowers with 5-6- 
merous calyx, and 6 to 8 short erect free concave slightly unequal petals; 
ovary globular-pyramidal; style short, thick ; stigma large, hemispheric. 
Drupes globular, ovoid, crowned by the persistent style and stigma, 
