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A tree about 15 ft, high (Maingay), Branches stout, bark grey; sboots quite gla- 

 brous. Leaves rigid, light brown when dry, shining above, paler beneath, with about 

 6-8 rather distant prominent ascending nerves, sparingly reticulated; petiole short, 

 stout, \-^ in. Cymes more or less effuse, with short subscorpioid many-flowered 

 brauches; peduncles \-% in., rather slender, glabrous or minutely puberulous; pedicels 

 as short as the flowers, sometimes umbellulate. Calyx-lohes orbicular. Petals 

 broadly oblong, obtuse, rather shorter than the stamens; of the <? 4-6, united at the 

 base, ot^$ often 6, unequal and free. Stamens insei-ted on the corolla in the <J, hypo- 

 gynous m the $ . Drupe of two forms ; one perfect, globose, | in. diam., with a sessile 

 stigma and 6-8 much compressed acutely 3-gonous stones ; the other (imperfect) 

 smaller, with a distinct but very short style and empty cell^. — The Tenasserim speci- 

 mens doubtfully referred to this species have smaller very coriaceous leaves, 2-3 in., 

 I^th more narrowed bases and tips, and glabrous cymes. A specimen of apparently 

 the same plant is amongst Maingay's Malacca collections, its fruit is unknown, ,^ 



21. Z. Malngrayi, ffook/.; quite glabrous, leaves 4-5 in. elliptic or 

 ^arrowly elliptic-oblong obtusely acuminate very coriaceous rather glaucous 

 beneath, nerves nearly horizontal, flowers subumbellate in stout much. 

 branched cymes 4-G-merous, drupe | in. diam. with 6 stones, styte distinct. 



Pexang, Maivgay (Kew distrib. 1021). 



A tree about the size of a Guava [Maivgay) ; branches woody, bark dark grey, shoots 

 ?nite glabrous. Leaves very coriaceous, dark brown opaque and subglaucous beneath 

 when dry, blacker brown and shining above, midrib stout, narrowed into a stout petiole 

 Hin. Cymes almost racemose, 1-2 in. long, peduncle and pedicel stout quite gla- 

 brous, black when dry. Flowers crowded on very short stout pedicels, yV in. diam. ; 

 f cymes very short judging from the fruit. Calyx lohes orbicular, not ciliate. Petals 

 JJther coriaceous, broadly oblong, in the (J 4, rather shorter than the stout filaments ; in 

 ^^e ? 6, inserted below the ovary {tqq. Stamens inserted on the corolla in the <? , hypogy- 

 jiOQs in- the ? . Drupes on stout pedicels shorter than themselves, subtended by the 6- 

 'obed calyx, rather longer than broad ; pulp very scanty ; stones trigonous, thickly coria- 

 ^^ous; stigma tumid, subsessile. — Near I, macrqphylla, but the nerves of the leaf are 

 ^ore numerous and almost horizontal. 



22. I, cymosa, Blume By dr. 1149; branches with white bark, 

 leaves 3-5 in. elliptic or elliptic-oblong obtuse or obtusely acuminate rather 

 ^embranous, nerves beneath very slender, flowers in lax open cymes 

 ^8-merous, drupe i in. diam. with about 8 trigonous stones, style stout 

 Jistinct. I. singapuriana, Watl. Cat. 6526. Prinos cymosa, ffassk. 

 yjdsdir. Nat. Gesch. x. 140; Miquel FL Ind. Bat. i pt. 2, 595. Leuco- 

 ^^fisjavauica, PZawcA. ?w^. ^ ' 



Eastern Peninsula • from Tenasserim to Malacca, common.— Distbib. Sumatra, 

 ^'^^a. Borneo. ' . 



„ ^ small tree ; quite glabrous ; bark of branches snow-white, with the epidermis 

 making off. Leaves usually membranous, variable in shape ; nerves few or many, 

 •Reading, very slender, sometimes quite faint, pale^brown when dry, shining above, 

 "f^fowed into a rather stout petiole ^-i in. long. Flowers ^^ in. diam., in small cymes 



\^egular umbellules which are collected into a spreading cymose lon^r-pednncled 

 J?|*^c^e; peduncle i-li in.; pedicels slender i in. ; <J 4-5-merou8, with equal oblong 

 ^^«se spreading petals ; ? with a 5-merous calyx and 6-8 unequal small erect concavo 

 ^jI^'s. Calyx-lobes orbicular. Drupe J in. diam., rather longer than broad, grooved 



aeu dry, with very little flesh, and usually 8 trigonous compressed stones ; stigma on 

 .^evident stout short style.— The white bark is very conspicuous m this plant, which 



^ ^^ore open panicled cyme aud longer style than any of its Indian congeners. 



,23. I. Wallichii, Hook. f. ; branches with white bark, leaves 4-5 in. 

 J^^Ptic or elliptic-ovate obtuse quite entire thinly coriaceous, drupe ^ in. 

 ^^ with about 12 coiiipressM stones, stigma sessile. Ilicmea \ Wall. 



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