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120 G-. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 2, narrowed to the base, 7-nerved, 2.75 in. long, and .45 in. broad; the two inner of the same shape, but few-nerved, only 1.5 in. long, and .25 in. broad. Penang: Curtis, No. 199. A species known only by Mr. Curtis. solitary specimen. The connectives of the inner anthers are ciliate, somewhat in the fashion of S. ciliata, King; but the leaves of that species are very different. IS. Shorea stellata, Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 304. A tree 100 to 150 feet high; young branches slender, at first stellate-puberulous, but speedily glabrous, with bark dark-coloured and sparse-ly lenticellate. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, the base rounded: upper surfaces glabrous, the lower very minutely lepidote on the reticulations; main nerves 8 to 11 pairs, rather straight, oblique, prominent on the lower surface; length 4 to 5.5 in., breadth 1.75 to 2.25 in., petiole .7 to .9 in. Panicles axillary or terminal, crowded at the extremities of the branches, many-flowered, 4 to 6 in. long; minute-ly stellate-pubescent. Flowers .25 in. in diam. Calyx minutely greyish-tomentose. the segments ovate-oblong, sub-acute, valvate, erect. Petals broadly ovate, obtuse, pubescent outside, spreading. Stamens 15, the filaments short, broad; the anthers linear-elongate, shortly bi-mucronate, the connective also shortly mucronate. Ovary ovate-globular, grooved, very tomentose; the style short; the stigma ovoid, small. Ripe fruit ovoid, apiculate, tomentose, .5 in. long; sepals all enlarged, sub-equal, membranous, linear-oblong, sub-acute, much narrowed at the base, quite free from the fruit, 5-ribbed, reticulate, 4.5 in. long, and about .6 in. broad. Parashorea stellata, Kurz, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, for 1870, pt. 2, p. 66. For. Flora Burm., I, 117; Pierre Flore Forest. Coch-Chine, t. 224. Perak: King's Collector, No. 7505. Distrib. Burmah. None of the Perak specimens are in fruit; but in leaves and flowers they agree absolutely with Kurz.s Bmmiese specimens. The calyx in all is quite valvate, and it was on this character chiefly that Kurz based the genus Parashorea. 19. Shorea Maranti, Burck in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, VI. 217. A small tree: young branches dark-coloured, stellate-puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, more or less broadly elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly abruptly and bluntly acuminate; the base broad, rounded, or almost truncate; upper surface glabrous, the midrib and nerves minu-tely tomentose or pubescent when young; lower surface more or less sparsely minutely stellate-puberulous, the sides of the midrib, especi-ally at the axils of the main nerves, glandular and densely covered with masses of brown pale-edged scales: main nerves 12 to 16 pairs, oblique,
1893.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 121 slightly curved, thin hut prominent heneath when dry, as are the transverse veins; length 3.5 to 6.5 in., breadth 1.5 to 2.25 in.; petiole .35 in., densely stellate-pubescent, scurfy. Stipules deciduous, ovate-lanceolate, nerved, stellate-puherulous. Panicles axillary and termi-nal, few-flowered, tawny-tomentose, (shorter than the leaves [?]); the bracts in pairs, unequal, elliptic-oblong, blunt, nerved, pubescent on both surfaces. . Segments of calyx (fide Burck) unequal, the three outer larger, imbricate. Petals minutely tomentose inside. Stamens 15, in two rows.. Hopea ? Maranti, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl., 489; A. DC. Prod. XYI, 2, p. 635. Perak: King.s Collector, No. 880. Malacca: Derry, No. 952. Distrib. Sumatra, Bangka. The Perak specimens are not in flower; and I have seen none from elsewhere that are. The above imperfect description of the flower ha.s therefore been copied from Burck (Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, VI. 217). The Perak specimens perfectly agree, as to leaves, with an authentic specimen of Miquel.s from Sumatra, in the Calcutta Her-barium. Miquel never saw either flower or fruit. In fact, of the twenty new species of Dipterocarpece described by this anthor in the supplement to his Flora of the Netherlands India, the flowers are des-cribed in only two, and in these but partially ! 20. Shobea eximia, Scheff. in Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XXXI, 349. A shrub or small tree; young branches petioles and under-surfaces of leaves stellate-setulose. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, or ob-lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, narrowed to the rounded or sub-cuneate base: upper surface glabrous except the tomentose midrib, shining, the nerves depressed: nnder surface scabrid, pale brown, the reticulations midrib and 17 to 21 pairs of spreading nerves prominent: length 6.5 to 11 in., breadth 225 to 3.25 in., petiole .25 to .35 in. Stipules in pairs, persistent, ovate, acuminate, longer than the petioles, reticulate, laxly pubescent and wartcd. . Wings of fruiting-calyx linear-lanceolate, obtuse: the three larger narrow at the base, 3.2 to 3.6 in. long, -5 in. broad, sparsely pubescent, 9-nerved; the two shorter and narrower 1.6 in. long. Fruit elongated-ovoid, acuminate, minute-ly whitish-tomentose.. Burck in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg VI, 218. Vatica? eximia, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 486; A. DC. Prod. XVI, 2, 623. Vatica sub-lacunosa ? Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 486. Shorea sub-lacunosa, Scheff:. in Nat. Tijdschr. Ned, Ind. XXXI, 350: A. DC. Prod. XVI, 2623. Malacca: Griffith, No. 5018. Penang: King. Perak King's Col-lector, 10998. Distrib. Sumatra, Bangka. This plant is very imperfectly known. I have copied the descrip-
122 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 2, tion of the fruit from Dr. Burck (l. c.). Miquel, who first described the plant as a probable Vatica, had seen nothing but a leaf-twig. Specimens brought from Perak by the Calcutta collectors bear, instead of flowers, curious coues, 1.5 in. long, of distichous imbricate bracts, concerning which Griffith, in his field note on his specimen No. 5018, wrote, — "irregular growth caused by an insect; each of the scales of these cones bears on its dorsum at its base a number of eggs." Griffith.s No. 5019 appears to belong to a closely allied, but distinct, spe-cies; as also does the indeterminate plant issued by Wallich as No. 6635 of his catalogue, under the designation, "Dilleniacea [?] nervosa." 21. Shorea Thiseltoni, King, n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high: young branches rather stout, the bark dark-coloured and lenticellate, but covered at first by a pale-grey, deciduous pellicle. Leaves coriace-ous, elliptic-oblong to elliptic, rarely oblong, sometimes slightly obovate, obtuse, slightly narrowed to the rounded base; both surfaces glabrous, the lower when very young sparsely lepidote, puberulous especially on the midrib and nerves, brown when dry: main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, ascending, slightly curved, bold and prominent on the under surface like the midrib; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 2.5 to 3.25 in.; petiole .6 to .8 in., stout. Panicles axillary and terminal, 2 to 3 in. long, velvety, few-flowered, apparently ebracteolate. Flotvers sessile, .6 or .7 in. long. Sepals ovate, sub-acute, unequal; the 3 outer tomentose outside, glabrous inside; the 2 inner smaller, nearly glabrous, the edges ciliate. Petals much longer than the sepals, linear-oblong, obtuse, expanded at the base, glabrous, except one-half of the outer surface which is adprcssed-pubescent. Stamens 15, in 3 rows, the filaments of all dilated, unequal: the anthers shortly ovate, those of the inner and longer row inappendiculate, those of the other two rows with a short apical appendage from the connective. Ovary narrowly conical, tomentose, tapering into the short glabrous style; stigma minute. Ripe fruit narrowly ovoid, apiculate, minutely pale-tomentose, substriate, 1.2 in. long, and .6 in. in diam., the pericarp thick and woody. Per-sistant sepals with much thickened concave woody bases, forming a cup embracing the lower half of the fruit, the apices of the outer three prolonged into membranous linear-oblong obtuse wings exceeding the fruit and sometimes L.5 in. long; one of the inner sepals shortly winged, the other often broad, obtuse and not winged. Perak: common. King's Collector. In this plant the fruit is much larger than in any of the other species of Shorea here described, and its pericarp is hard and thick. The bases of the sepals ars greatly thickened and concave, and they form a cup which embraces closely, but does not adhere to, the lower
1893.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 123 half of the fruit, the apices of some of them being winged as above described. In these respects the species resembles certain other Malayan species of Shorea, e. g., S. Martiniana Scheff, S. scaberrima, and S. stenoptera, Bnrck. Judging from the leaf-specimens on which Miquel foivnded his Hopea 8ingkaivang, that plant must be a close ally of this. A species (flower only) collected by H. O. Forbes in Sumatra (Herb. No. 2952) must also be closely allied to this. It differs however by its conspicuously bracteolate inflorescence. Beccari's Nos. 2681 and 3507, which form the types of Heim's species S. brachyp-tera, are also allied to this. 6. Hopea, Roxb. Glabrous or hoary-tomentose resinous trees. Leaves quite entire, firm, feather-veined; stipules small, deciduous or inconspicuous. Flowers sessile or shortly pedicelled, ebracteate, in lax panicles of uni-lateral racemes. Sepals inserted on the receptacle, two being quite external and three for the most part internal, obtuse, imbricate. Petals falcate, their apices inflected in bud. 8tamens 15, or rarely 10, slightly connate; the connective subulate-cuspidate, the anthers ovate, their valves obtuse, equal. Ovary 3-celled, the cells 2-ovuled: style shortly cylindric or subulate. Fruit 1-seeded, closely surrounded by the bases of the accrescent sepals, the 2 external of which are developed into linear wings, the three internal not longer than the ripe fruit. Embryo as in Shorea. — Distrib. of Shorea; species about 35. Sect. I. Eu-hopea, Main nerves of leaves bold and prominent. Nerves of leaves 16 to 18 pairs; accrescent sepals 4 to 4.5 in. long, 10-nerved ... 1 H. nervosa. Nerves of leaves 10 to 13 pairs; accrescent sepals 1.75 to 2.5 in. long, obscurely 5-nerved 2. H. Curtisii. Sect. II. Dryobalanoidea, Miq. Main nerves not distinct. Petals sericeous: the filaments longer than the anthers; ripe fruit .3 in. long, the accrescent sepals 7-nerved, l.75 to 2 in. long, and .2 to .25 in. broad; leaf-petioles .25 to .4 in. long, minutely tomentose... ... ... 3. H. micrantha. Petals densely sericeous; the filaments shorter than the anthers; ripe fruit .2 in. long; ac-crescent sepals obscurely 5-to 7-nerved, 1.25 to 1.5 in. long, and .25 in. broad; leaf-petioles .35 to .6 in. long, slender, pubcrulous, finally glabrous ... ... ... 4. H. intermedia.
1893,] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 125 ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, bluntly caudate-acuminate; the base slightly cuneate or sometimes broad, rounded and slightly unequal; both surfaces glabrous except the pubescent midrib: main nerves numerous, not much more prominent than the secondary, and both indistinct; length 2 to 4 in., breadth .8 to 1.75 in.; petiole .25 to .4 in. minutely tomentnse. Panicles axillary and terminal, numerous, short, spreading, 1 to 1.5 in. long, puberulous or glabrous. Flowers .15 to .25 in. long, shortly pedicellate. Sepals sub-equal, ovate-rotund, sub-acute or obtuse, puberulous and resinous outside, glabrous inside. Petals twice as long as the sepals, broadly oblong-obtuse, silky outside except on one side, glabrous inside. Stamens about 12, the filaments dilated in the lower half, longer than the ovate anthers; the connective produced into a single apical awn longer than the stamen. Ovary elongated, often constricted in the middle, glabrous; style very short, stigma minute. Ripe fruit ovoid, apiculate, -3 in. long, striate, closely embraced by the 3 inner sepals which about equal it in length; the outer two sepals accrescent, oblanceolate, obtuse, tapering to the con-cave base, reticulate, 7-nerved, P75 to 2 in. long, and .2 to .25 in. broad. A. DC. Prod. XVI. 2, p. 634. Dyer in Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. I, 310. Burck in Ann. Bot. Jard. Buitenzorg, VI, 238. Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 210. Penang: Curtis, Nos. 167, 266, 1397. Perak: King's Collector, N.os. 3525, 8170. Distrib. Borneo: Bangka, Sumatra. Mr. Curtis notes on the Penang specimens of this, that the bark of the tree is smooth and of a grey colour, whereas the back of its close ally H. intermedia is fissured like that of Shorea parviflora. The species of Hopea with numerous indistinct nerves, (Sect. Dryobalanoides) are not easy to distinguish from each other in the Herbarium. H. Mengarawan, Miq., a species published two years earlier than this (i. e., in 1860), comes very near this, and the two may possibly prove to be identical, in which case Miquel.s name must be adopted. Hopea cemua, Teysm. and Binn. was described by its authors from a plant originally obtained from Sumatra, but cultivated in the Buitenzorg Garden. It differs from H. Mengaratvan and from H. micrantha in having larger leaves with more prominent nerves . Its authors were doubtful as to its being really dis-tinct from H. Mengarawan, and I think these doubts were well founded. Under the species named H. Dryobalanoides by Miquel (1. c ) there are, Dr. Burck asserts, two plants. One of these collected at Soengie-pagoe in Sumatra, is, he says, simply H. Mengaraivan, Miq., and it is the fruit of this which Miquel describes under liis H. Dryobalanoides. The other specimen from Priaman in Sumatra is different, and it is to it that Dr. Burck (Ann. Bot. Jard. Buitenzorg VI., 241) desires to
126 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 2, restrict the name H. Dryobalanoides, Miq. There is in the Calcutta Herbarium an authentic specimen of the very gathering of the Soengie-pagoe plant on which Miquel worked, and I should refer it to H. micrantha Hook. fil. Petalandra micrantha, Harssk. has been reduced by the authors of the Genera Plantarum (Vol. I. p. 193) to Hopea. It is however a different plant from this, and belongs to Miquel.s section Pu-hopea, which is characterised by the nerves being prominent. By Dr. Burck, Petalandra is reduced to Doona. 4. Hopea intermedia, King n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high: young branches rather dark-coloured, minutely lenticellate, puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, the base cuneate, both surfaces glabrous; main nerves numerous, faint; length 2.5 to 3 in., breadth 1 to T35 in.; petiole .35 to .6 in. slender, puberulous but finally glabrous. Panicles as in H. Mengarawan, the flowers pedicellate. Sepals sub-equal; the two outer ovate, acuminate; the three inner broader and more obtuse, all resinous outside, glabrous and smooth in-side. Petals twice as long as the sepals, narrowly oblong, obtuse, falcate, densely sericeous externally, glabrous within. Stamens 12; the fila-ments dilated, shorter than the anthers; the anthers short, crowned by a straight awn from the connective longer than the stamen. Ovary hour-glass shaped; style short, stigma small. Pipe fruit ovoid, apicu-late, .2 in. long, pale, striate; the two outer sepals accrescent, narrowly oblong-obtuse, narrowed to the base, reticulate, obscurely 5-to 7-nerved, 1.25 to 1.5 in. long and .25 in. broad; the inner three sepals not accres-cent, not longer than the fruit, and closely embracing it. Penang: Curtis, No. 425 and 1398. Perak: King's Collector, No. 3709. This species is no doubt near to H. micrantha, Hook, fil., but, accord-ing to Mr. Curtis, it is distinguishable from that, while growing, by its bark, this tree having a fissured bark like that of Shorea parvifolia, Dyer, while the bark of H. micrantha is smooth and grey. The petals of this are also more sericeous than those of H. micrantha, the filaments are shorter than the anthers (not longer, as in H. micrantha), the leaves are more glabrous, the petioles longer and more slender and more glabrous, and the fruit and accrescent sepals are smaller than in H. micrantha. I have therefore ventured, after much hesitation, to name this as a species, and from its relationship to II. micrantha and H. Menga-rawun, I have called it H. intermedia. Its vernacular name in Penang is Jankang. It has been suggested that this plant should be refer-red to H. Dryobalanoides, Miq. — a course which I would have adopted with great pleasure had it been clear what II. Dryobalanoides really is.
128 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 2, Fruiting-calyx shorter than the fruit. Leaves 3.5 to 6 in. long: fruit -4 in. in diam. 1. R. pallidum. Leaves 7 to 10 in. long: fruit .65 in. in diam. 2. R. Scortechinii. Fruiting-calyx longer than the fruit ... 3. R. Kunstleri. 1. Retinodendron pallidium, King. A small tree (fide Dyer): young branches slender, deciduously puberulous, their bark pale. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acuminate; the edges entire, recurved when dry; the base acute: both surfaces glabrous, the upper shining; main nerves 9 to 10 pairs, curving, oblique; length 3.5 to 6 in., breadth 12 to 1.8 in., petiole .4 to .5 in. Panicles axillary, rarely extra-axillary, puberulous, I to 3 in. long. Flowers .45 in. long; Calyx-segments ovate-lanceolate, scurfy-pubescent. Petals oblong, lanceo-late, sub-acute, stellate-pubescent externally. Anthers broadly ovate, with a short blunt apiculus. Ovary puberulous; stigma capitate, lobed. Fruit globular, about .4 in. in diam., glabrous, shining, very minutely and sparsely lepidote, partially covered in the lower half by the slightly unequal, spreading or sub-reflexed, narrowly-oblong, membranous, 3-nerved, reticulate calyx-lobes. Vatica pallida, Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 1, 302. Penang: Maingay, on Government Hill, at an elevation of about 800 feet; Curtis, No. 117; King, Kunstler. This is known only from Penang. It is evidently a rare tree. Its fruit somewhat resembles (except in size) that of V. lancecefolia, Blume. 2. Retinodendron Scortechinii, King, n. sp. A tall tree: young branches rather stout, densely furfuraceous-pubescent. Leaves coria-ceous, oblong, tapering to the sub-acute apex; the base slightly nar-rowed, rounded: both surfaces glabrous: main nerves 14 to 18 pairs, spreading, curving, prominent on the lower, depressed on the upper, surface when dry, the transverse venation bold: length 7 to 10 in., breadth 2.6 to 32 in , petiole .6 to .75 in. Panicles crowded towards the apices of the branches, mostly axillary, 2 to 2.5 in. long, the rachises brownish flocculent stellate-tomentose, as is the calyx exter-nally. Flowers .6 in. long. Calyx-lobes ovate. Petals thick, oblong, blunt, puberulous externally, glabrous within. Stamens elliptic, apicu-late. Ovary minutely tomentose; stigma clavate. Ripe fruit sub-globular, sub-rugose, vertically grooved, minutely rufous-scurfy, about .65 in. in diam , laxly embraced in the lower half by the broadly ovate, membranous, many-nerved, reticulate, sub-equal calyx-lobes. Perak: Scortechini, Nos. 1940 and 1942. The calyx-lobes are nearly equal in size, quite free from the fruit, much shorter, and they embrace only its lower half. This species is allied to Retinodendron Rassalc, Korth. (Nat. Gesch. Ned. Ind. 56, t. 8,)
130 Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 2, nerves 8 or 9 pairs, oblique, slightly curving, prominent beneath; length 4 to 5 in., breadth 1.75 to 2 in., petiole .5 in. Panicles 4 to 6 in. long, stellate-pubescent; bracteoles caducous. Flowers shortly stalked. Calyx-segments minutely tomentose. Petals .5 in. long, pale tomentose. Stamens 30 to 36, in 3 series, the filaments dilated at the base: anthers with equal valves. Ovary sericeous, style glabrous. Ripe fruit sub-globose, acuminate, pale tomentose, about .25 in. in diam.; fruiting-calyx forming a cup -with a concave short tube embracing the fruit, the seg-ments spreading, re-curved, the 3 outer .65 in. in length and breadth, the 2 inner smaller. Heim, "Recherches sur les Dipterocarpacees," p. 51. Pahang: Ridley, No. 2626. Distrib. Bangka, Borneo. Leaf-specimens of what appear to be this tree were collected by Mr. Wray (Herb. No. 3426) in Upper Perak. 9. Balanocabpus, Beddome. Glabrous or puberulous, rarely scabrid, resinous trees, with in-conspicuous fugaceous stipules. Leaves entire, coriaceous or membran-ous, penni-nerved. Flowers secund, sessile or shortly pedicelled. Sepals distinct or united at tbe base, imbricated, two quite external to the others; in fruit sub-equal, only slightly enlarged, woody, thickened, and forming a 5-lobed cup round the base of (but rarely enveloping) the fruit, not adnate to it and never expanding into wings. Petals elliptic, obliquely acuminate, the apices slightly inflexed in bud or not inflexed at all. Stamens 15, attached to the bases of the petals, in 3 rows; or 10 in 2 rows, sub-equal, the filaments much dilated at the base, the connec-tive prolonged into a straight apical awn longer than the ovate anther. Torus flat. Ovary 3-celled, cells 2-ovuled, ovules collateral. Style short. Stigma minute, entire. Fruit oblong or sub-globose, apiculate; the pericarp ligneous or sub-ligneous. Seed solitary, erect; cotyledons fleshy, plano-concave, the larger 2-or 3-lobed, or entire; the radicle prominent. Southern Peninsular India, Malaya. Probably 12 species. Leaves glabrous, smooth. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate, caudate-acu-minate. Stamens 15 Fruit entirely enveloped in the slight-ly enlarged calyx ... ... 1. B. Curtisii. Only the lower part of the fruit en-veloped by the calyx ... ... 2. B.penangianus. Stamens 10 ... ... ... 3. B. anomalus.