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Cymes pedunculate, corymbose, the main branches ascending, the stcond- 

 ary spreading, all opposite, minutely bracteolate at the base, puberulous 

 or almost glabrous; peduncles stout, compressed, glabrescent, 15 fo 4 

 in, long. Floivprs '1 in. long (excluding the exsevted stamens) densely 

 crowded, many of them practically unisexual, the ovai-y being abortive. 

 Sepals sub-orbicular, obtuse, puberulous. Petals glabrous. Stamens ex- 

 serted. Ovary depressed, glabrous, or hairy at the base of the styles. 

 Cocci 2 or 3 to each flower, "2 in. long, rngulose and glandular exteinnlly, 

 broadly ovate, obtuse. Seeds black. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2,672; 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. Ill, 24-3; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 489. 



Perak : very common. Penang, Curtis, No. 2485. Andaman Islands, 

 King's collectors. Nicobars, Kurz. 



This is best distinguished from E. BoxburgMana and E. latifoHa 

 by its more coriaceous leaves with stronger nerves, and by its more 

 corymbose cymes. The flowers, however are very little different in all 

 three, and it seems doubtful whether it would not be better to treat all 

 as forms of a single widely distributed and variable species. 



4 EvODiA ROBUSTA, Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I., 488. A small tree ; 

 young branches as thick as a swan's quill, compressed, hoary. Leaves 

 3-foliolate, the petiole 4 in. long, terete, as thick as a crowquill: 

 leaflets coriaceous, elliptic, the terminal sub-obovate, obtuse or ob- 

 tusely acuminate, the midrib and arching nerves very strong, o-lab- 

 rous except the puberulous midi-ib beneath, the upper surface shin- 

 ing; length 6 to 8 in. Cymes broad, (5 in. in diam.), brachiate, their 

 branches very robust. Flowers and fruit as in E. BoxburgMana. 



Penang; Phillips. Singapore; Maingay ( Kew Distrib.) No. 278. 



This species must come very near E. glabra, Bl. It also greatly 

 resembles the Sumatran E. etmeuron, Miq. (Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 532). 



5. EvoDiA MACROCARPA, King, n. sp. A tree 20 to 40 feet high : 

 young branches rather stout, cinereous-puberulous, compressed. Leaves 

 3-foliolate, the petiole 3 to 4 in. long, glabrous : leaflets coriaceous, 

 oblong, or elliptic-oblong, acute, nai'rowed to the slightly unequal- 

 sided base ; both surfaces glabrous, the upper shining, the lower dull 

 and paler when dry; main nerves 14 to 18 pairs, almost horizontal 

 faint; length 6 to 12 in., breadth 2 to 3 in., petiole "l to '2 in.- the 

 middle leaflet the largest. Cymes axillary, pyramidal, shortly pedun- 

 culate, olivaceous-tomentose ; the btanches opposite, spreading, bracteo- 

 late at the base; peduncles "5 to 1'5 in. long, puberulous Flowers 

 •1 in. long, densely crowded, many of them with perfect stamens 

 but an abortive ovary; sepals triangular, acute, pubescent; petals 

 puberulous. Stantens exserted. Ovary villous. Cocci 3 or 4 to each 

 flower, compressed, obovate, blunt, '4 in. long, dark-coloui-ed and 



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