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than petiole. The inflorescence, as Heim justly observes, is 
remarkable—2-4 slender peduncles, each bearing a many-flowered 
panicle, arise from one leaf-axil, and besides these there are 
fascicles of interaxillary panicles. As a few of the flowers only 
produce ripe seed, a number of fruit-bearing peduncles, single 
or in pairs, are scattered along the entire length of an inter- 
nodium, as described by Heim. The ramifications of the in- 
florescences are filiform, with scattered stellate hairs; bifurcations, 
with an apparently terminal flower, are not uncommon. Flower 
pedicellate, pale yellow, sweet-scented (Haviland); calyx and 
petals clothed with stellate hairs on the outside; anther-cells 
unequal ; appendage of connective broad, blunt. Ovary hairy; 
style short, glabrous; stigma conical. Fruit [globose, pointed, 
supported by the enlarged but not thickened sepals, which are 
reflexed, equalling the fruit in length; cotyledons fleshy, plane- 
convex; radicle short. 
18. VATICA PEDICELLATA, sp. nova. Arbor mediocris. Folia 
coriacea, oblongo-lanceolata, glaberrima, superne nitida, inferne 
opaca, petiolis glaberrimis; nervi secundarii utrinque 14-18 
nervis intramarginalibus (a margine remotis) juncti, nervis 
intermediis multis brevioribus, nervis tertiariis reticulatis. Pani- 
cule axillares et intra-axillares pilis stellatis fusco-purpureis 
obtectze, ramis a bracteis 2 parvis deciduis suffultis, pedicello florem 
fere equante. Calycis segmenta triangularia, extus pilis stellatis 
fusco-purpureis tecta, intus pilosa. Petala lineari-oblonga, sub- 
falcata, extus pilis stellatis fusco-purpureis tecta. Stamina 15, 
5 interiora episepala antheris minoribus, sed filamentis quam 10 
exteriorum longioribus. Ovarium a pilis stellatis tectum, stylo 
brevi glabro 5-sulcato, stigmate conico. Fructus sphæricus, 
sepalis auctis (neque incrassatis) fultus. Semen cotyledonibus 
plano-convexis usque ad basin bifidis, radieulà embryonem 
dimidium æquante. —Pl. III. figs. 12-14. 
Lundu, Sarawak (Haviland, d. u. c. d.). 
Blade 5-7 by 14-2 in., petiole 4-3 in. Inflorescence often 
bifurcating, with an apparently terminal flower between the two 
branches. Stigma consisting of numerous fleshy elongated cones. 
Fruit } in. diam. Cells of cotyledons filled with starch, 
19. V. Rassak,’ Blume, Mus. Bot. ii. (1852) 31.—Retino- 
dendron Rassak, Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 56, t. 8. 
River Baritto, Kapoeas &c., Borneo. 
