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valde incrassato, limbo 4plo breviore: racemo terminali, folio subzequilongo ; rachi 
erassa, cylindrica, densiflora, e floribus caducis creberrime cicatricata; floribus 
sessilibus ; calyce pocilliformi crassiusculo, extus brevissime puberulo, fere ad basin 
in lobos 4 rotundatos diviso; petalis 4, obovatis, crassiusculis, calyce triplo lon- 
gioribus ; staminibus pluriseriatis, imo in tubulum longiusculum monadelphis : disco 
annulato, margine externo tubum staminigerum fulciente, intus in prominentiam 
erectam crenulatam verticem concavum cingentem producto ; ovario turbinato, acute 
tetragono, angulis costatis, subeorrugulato, 4-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 4—5, axi 
affixis. In Birma: v. s. in hb. Hook. prope Avam (Griffith 2421), Malaya ( Maingay 163). 
This differs from the preceding species in its much longer petioles, and racemes with 
more crowded flowers: the axils of the leaves are 1—3 in. apart ; the leaves are 73—14 in. 
long, 23—81 in. broad, on a petiole 13—21 in. long, aid with about 30 pairs of nerves; the 
raceme is 1 foot long, or longer; the rachis 8 lines thick, dark lilae, closely beset with 
smallish cicatrices of the fallen flowers; the ovary is 4 lines long; the calyx 3 lines, the 
petals 9 lines long, 4 lines broad ; the stamens about 2 inches long ; the style 3 in. long, 
of a deep red colour: 4 оғ 5 ovules in each cell, upper ones ascending, the lower sub- 
pendulous. 
З. DOXOMMA COCHINCHINENSE, nob.: Еидетіа acutangula, Lour. (non Linn.) Coch. i. 
375 (excl. synon.) : Stravadium cochinchinense, Bl. in V. Houtte, Flor. Serr. vii. p. 24: 
arbor, ramulis patentibus, fistulosis, brunneis, angulato-sulcatis, apice confertim 
foliiferis : foliis lanceolato-oblongis, apice in acumen angustum obtusulum constrictis, 
imo acute cuneatis, ad margines cartilagineos revolutos repandos obsolete serratis, 
subeoriaceis, supra pallidissime viridibus, nervis patentim divaricatis juxta mar- 
ginem nexis prominulis, valde reticulatis, subtus ochraceo-flavescentibus, valde 
opacis, nervis venisque prominentibus; petiolo longissimo, limbi fere longitudine, 
tereti, pallide opaco: racemo (sec. cl. Lour.) longissimo, pendulo, simplici ; sepalis 4, 
rotundatis; petalis 4, subparvis, subrotundis, concavis, conniventibus ; ovario infero, 
rotunde turbinato: fructu cylindrice oblongo, utrinque subaeuto, ealyce coronato, 
tetragono, angulis acutis; pericarpio corticoso, subrugoso, flavide fusco; semine 
unico, magno, oblongo (farinulento dum vivo 2), demum durissimo. Іп Cochinchina, 
in sylvis: v. pl. s. іп hb. Mus. Brit. loc. cit. роне, specim. typ.); v. fruct. i 
Mus. Brit. (Loureiro). 
From the typical specimen and fruit, this species may now be distinguished from the 
many heterogeneous plants erroneously referred to it. Although Loureiro recorded it 
as the Eugenia acutangula of Linnzus, he was aware of its nearer affinity to the Butonica 
rubra of Rumphius. Не described it as a large tree with spreading branches. Its leaves 
are 4-10 in. long, 2-23 in. broad, on petioles 3-7 in. long; they have about 14 pairs of 
patent fine nerves; the terminal raceme is often 2 feet long. The size of the flowers is 
not given; but the petals are stated to be small. The typical specimen of the fruit 
is 3 in, long, 11 in. broad, оп a short stout pedicel; it is narrowed at each extremity, 
4 lines broad at the throat; where it is crowned by the calycine limb 8 lines long. Its 
Shape is somewhat fusiform and striolated, with 4 longitudinal wings, 11 line broad, and 
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