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Parinarium,'} ll EOSACEiE, (J. D. Hooker.) • <ill 



and rachis densely clothed with soft yellowish tomentum; Lracte oblong, obtuse. 

 Timers sessile,^ J in. long. Calyx-tube clavate, gibbous, clothed with silky hairs 

 outside, and with long deflexed hairs inside; lobes broadly ovate, obtuse. Petals 

 oboyate, sessile, nearly glabrous. StaTnem 12-15, ^ in. long, circinnately incurved^ 

 I united at the base into a unilateral ring which is deficient opposite the single carpel. 

 ■^ry densely woolly, imperfectly 2-celled; style very long and slender, stigma 

 nnnute. Drupe the size of a small apple, spherical, very hard ; outer surface rough 

 and rust-coloured ; endocarp | in, thick, bony ; cavity smooth with a" furrow down one 

 side and a few very stout sparingly branched raised veins. Seed Isivge, t^stathin^ 

 •oibryo with the cotyledons consolidated into a ruminated mass. 



** Leaves obscurely 2-fflandular at the base, 



7. P. indicum, Bedd. Ic. PL Ind, Or. t. 109 ; Flor. Sylvat. t. 191 ; 

 leaves elliptic-lanceolate^ glabrous, nerves 8-10 pair, racemes tomentose. En- 

 tosiphon, Bedd. in Mad. Jbuj-n. Litt. Ser. 3. i. 44. 



Western Peninsula; Wynad, in moist woods, alt. 2-3000 ft., Beddomc. 



A middling sized tree. Leaves 8-9 by 3 in., slightly undulate ; nerves strong 

 beneath, much arched ; petiole very short. Bacemes axillary and terminal, simple, 

 stout, rarely divided at the base. Flowers shortly pedicelled, ^-| in. long. Calyx- 

 «wc campanulate ; lobes ovate, acute. . Petals ovate, sessile, shorter than the calyx- 

 '«>^9. Stamens 12-15, unilateral, twice as long as the calyx-lobes. Ovary hairy, 

 2-ceUed. 



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«5. P. travancoricum, Bedd. Ic. PL Iiul Or. t. 189; leaves lanceolate 

 glabrous, nerves 12-16 pair, racemes silky. 



Western Peninsula, near Courtallum, alt. 2000 ft,, Beddovic. 



A small graceful tree, young parts grey, silky ; branchlets very slender. Leaves 

 4-5 byUlj in., obtusely acuminate; margins waved; nerves beneath silky when 

 yo^ng, finally glabrous; petiole very short. Eacemes 1-2 in., few-flowered, simple 

 or branched at the base, drooping, silky. Flowers A in. long. Calyx-tube campanu- 

 late ; lobas ovate, acute. Petals broadly ovate, obtuse, equalling or exceeding the 

 calyx-lobes. Sta)7iens 10-12, unilateral, filaments three times as long as the calyx- 

 ^o*>es. Ot-ar^ hairy, 2-celled. 



AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN 



P. Wallichianum, Wall. Cat. 7520 ; consists of branches -with leaves only 

 ^^ a most conspicuous plant from Sincapore, which I suspect is a Dipterocarpus 

 ^rauchlets very stout'and leaves beneath clothed most densely with appressed 

 snow-white almost silvery tomentum ; leaves 8-14 by 3-6 in., oblong, abruptly 

 acuminate, rounded at the base, quite entire; nerves 30-35 pair, spreading; 

 «PPer surface shining ; petiole very short and stout ; stipules sheathing, 1 in. lung, 

 ■membranous a;,,..^,' ^ a i.^^„ i ixxrniu^h\ 



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^nous.— Sincapore. A lofty tree {Wallich). 



, p. Helferi, Hook. f. ; branchlets slender clothed with soft rusty tomentum. 

 '^▼w elliptic-oblong acuminate membranous white and downy beneath, nerves 

 »^«t 12 pair, flowers minute in small softly tomentose panicles calyx-tube shortly 

 ^"jpanulate, stamens 6-7. P " " "'"" ""'' ""■^' ' ^^^ ""' 



sumatranum 



t\^i^^'' 3-4 in., base rounded or acute ; petiole and midrib beneath when young 

 Wothed with rusty soft wool : whole undersurfaee clothed with loose snow-white 

 ^entum when young, hoary when old ; nerves spreading, slender. Pamcle 1 m. 

 ^- Flxmerg ^ in., very shortly pedicelled. Calyx-lohes short, rounded, 

 g^^ery small, ovate. StaLm equalling the calyx-lobes.-I have seen but one 



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