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XanthaphjUum.] xvi. polygale^. (A. W. Bennett.) 



211 



petiole J-4 5n. Panicle 6-10 in., branches stout, densely clothed with jellow-browa 

 tomentum; branclilets and calyces ruiMy brown. blowers f in. long; pedicels 

 shorter than the sepals, bracts large, oblong. Sepals subequal, coriaceous, orbicular, 

 neciduons, densely tomentose within and without. Petals three times as long, nar- 

 wwk falcate-lanceolate, glabrons, except the broad tomentose keel. FilamenU pilose 

 *i the base. Ovary sessile, rigid (when dry) and style densely pubescent to the top ; 

 oniles 14-16. Fruit dry (immature obscurely anded). 



tr Flowers racemose, racemes rarely panicled, 



8. S. obscurum, A. W. Benn. ; branclilets stout, leaves very thickly 

 conaceous stout-petioled oblong obtuse glabrous dark brown when dry, 

 racemes very short stout axillary few-flowered, calyx glabrous ciliate, ovary 

 and style glabrous, 



Singapore, Maingay. 



ind f^/^ ^^"™l*^f tree ; branchlets woody, glabrous. Leaves 5-7 by 2-4 in., exceed- 

 gy ttiick, shining above, nerves 8-10 on each side reticulate, dark brown when dry; 

 Fh ^/"•'.'^'^^y stout. Bacemes l-\\ in., stout, suberect, dark, few-flowered. 

 m^^7\^ 10. long. Sepals unequal, orbicular, tips niinately ciliate. Petals all 

 an.l ♦ 1 subequal, glabrous, except on the claw and pubescent keel. OiJari/ ovoid 

 style quite glabrous ; ovules 15-16 {Maingay), 



Mi ^\ *'^^*^^®» ^' W' Benn,; branchlets stout glabrous, leaves long- 

 siuinl J^^^ coriaceous ovate or elliptic-oblong obtuse glabrous, racemes 

 pie short stout axillary and terminal, pedicels curved, sepals ciliate, 

 ''^^ sessile and style glabrous. 



ALACCA, Maingay, 

 laj5e ^^^'^^^ l«[ty ' ^^"'^^ ^^^^^ ; branchlets quite glabrous. Leaves 5-6 by l|-24 in., 

 feticulat ■ hrown when dry, shining ahove, nerves 6-8 on each side, loosely 



ends of ♦i^^^**^^^ *~-^ ^"-^ ""^^y ^'^1*^^'- Bacemes 3-4 in., sometimes panicled at ihQ 

 %(ih\ 7^"ches. Flowers 4-| in. long, handsome, almost black when dry. 



*tithi«T*^'^ ' suborbicular, puberulous. Petah spathulate, subequal, except the keel 

 curved- r^ ^"*^ ^^^^y "^^'' *^® *'PJ ^^^^ pubescent. Ovary ovo\i\ style slightly 



*• ellipticum, Korth in Mia. Ami. Mus. i. 276; wliolly glabrous, 



fcS;^1^'^--^^«^«^«- Borneo. 

 '^^'culatenVS^^ *^J ®*^"^-. ^^^^^ 3-4 by 1-1^ in., glossy ^aboje, very strongly 



dry 



aliu 



g^ it u^jJ^'^T.^^^; ' P^.Ji^^i« equalling the caljx. 



v; petiol^^i ^.^^^ surfaces, principal nerves about 6 on each side, pale brown whea 

 ^«st blAp\ '^ 1"' ^^^^^^^cs 1-3 in., rachis rather stout, an-lcd. Flowers \ in. long, 



Sepals orbicular, subequal, 



ous n ^^^^^ twice as long, very narrow", all quite glabrous. Filaments 



^^^^' sesBil V^ ^"^ slender style perfectly glabrous; ovules 12-14. Fruit | in. 

 ^^^Pubesc ^"^^^^"^-^rown when dry wiih thin crustaceous walls.— There is a very 



ence on the buds and pedicels of the Bornean specimens. 



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^^^11- PRANKENIACEiE. (By M. P. Edgeworth, F.L.S.) 



^««'Sn°^-.P^''^""^''^l terbs or undershrubs, with articulate branches. 

 ^•^^ ^TaiSp ' ^T^^' exstiimlate. Flowers small, solitary in the forks of 



'««is, mdupHcate valvate in 

 ^ypogynous, free ; claw with 



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ling the sepals in 

 imbricated m bud. 



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