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\J^ 6. P. Andersoni, Hook. /. ; quite glabrous, leaves oblong subacute or 

 obtuse crenate-serrate eglandular, racemes very short axillary dense-flowered 

 glabrous, calyx 5-lobed, petals broadly ovate with villous margins. 



Bengal, summit of Parusnath, alt. 4000 ft., 71 Anderson. 



A rigid shrub, quite glabrous except the margins of the petals. Leaves 3 in.» 

 coriaceous, smooth above, and bright green, paler beneath with 10-12 pairs of very 

 faint nearly straight ascending nerves ; petiole ^ in, EaceTms 1 in. ; pedicels very 

 short ; bracts concave, obtuse. Calyx-tube hemispheric ; lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, 

 ciliate. Pc/a/s membranous, twice as large as the calyx-lobes. Stamens ^OMt lb. 

 Ovary very minute, glabrous, imperfect, 



** Ovary hii^ute or villous, 

 t Leaves glabrous beneath. 



7. P. persixnlle, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beny. xli. Pars. 2, 306; For. 

 Flor. Brit. Burm. i. 436 ; leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate obtusely acumi- 

 nate, midrib pubescent beneath, racemes 2-3, pedicels very short. 



Tknasserim, Kurz, 



A tree ; young twigs sparingly appressed-pubescent. Leaves obtuse and equal or 

 unequal at the base, glabrous above or puberulous along the impressed nerves ; petiole 

 \ in. slender, pubescent. Racemes from the scars of fallen leaves, or from tne 

 branches ; pedicels very short. Calyx-Uthe short, urceolate. Ovary densely hirsute ; 

 style long, exserted, stigma broad. — Next to P. Lamporigo {Kurz^ 1. c). ^ 



I have a specimen from Heifer that may be this, but it is in a most impen^ 

 state; the basal leaf-glands are absent or very obscure, the raceme 1 in. lo^ ^ 

 persistent bracts; the calyx-tube obconic and hmb with 6 oblong obtuse lobes.--^ 

 Malacca plant {Griffith 2052) may be referable here, but differs in the nhorter 

 stout style, 



9. P. polystachyum, Hook. /. ; leaves oblong obtuse young hoary 

 beneath, petiolar glands 2 very tumid, racemes fascicled elongate finely puoes- 

 cent, calyx-tube shortly 10-lobed, petals 0, stamens 40-50, style glabrous, 



Malacca, Mairtyay {Herb. Kew, 627), ^ 



* A tree, not lofty, with very thick trunk ; ' branches very stout, black, J^^i^?^ 

 and young leaves beneath clothed with very fine hoary down. Leaves ^"' . "' 

 rounded at both extremities, very coriaceous, glabrous above with impressed ^^. jj 

 red-brown beneath with puberulous midrib and stout arching spreading nerves ; P^^^ 

 1 in., very stout, with two oblong tumid glands at the apex in old leaves (not ^^^f *1, 

 in the young). Racemes 2-4 in., axillary and from the scars of fallen leave's, ^^J^ 

 pubescent, peduncle and rachis stout, strict ; pedicels stout, ^ in. ; bracts » ^^ 

 gh>bose. Calyx-tube \ in. diam., urceolate; teeth rounded. Stairuns in se 

 series, filaments not longer than the calyx. Ovary hirsute; style stout, exserte 



10. P. parviflorum, Teysm. ^ Binnmd. in Nat. Tijd. ^^^^'^'^i^h^ 

 oOO ; leaves oblong obtuse^ basal glands 2 large, nerves puberulous t>e ^ ^' 



racemes fascicled on the old wood elongate tomentose, bracts *l^^^*^^^^^l^«pmii, 

 limb 10-12-toothed, petals 0.— Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 361. ?• ^J^ p.iy- 

 EndL Gm. 7V. 1250 in part, rolydontia arborea, -B/wwif* i?y^. 11^^' ^ 

 stortbia, Blume Prcef. Flor, Jav. viii. partim. 



Malacca, Griffith^ Maingay. — Distrib. Java, Borneo. tomento&e- 



A tree; branches stout, lenticellate; young branchlets and racemes wjunded; 



Leaves 4-6 in., variable in lengtl 



js strong arching and spreading : midrib with fine appressed ^^^^^ V^j- almost 

 w.. Racemes 1-3 in. long; peduncle and rachis stout; pedicels short; " (jtwrjf 

 globose. Calyx urceolate ; teeth small, obtuse, villous. Stamens ^ . / ^gcid*!^^ 

 densely villous ; style slender, hairy. Fruit J in. transversely, clothed ^^^ . ^ , 

 hairs. — Bornean specimens have no basal leaf-glands. . . / 



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