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9, membranous, lanceolate, acuminate, very coarsely dentate-serrate ; the 

 base oblique, acute, or obtuse ; both surfaces, but especially the lower, 

 softly yellowish-pubescent, 1"5 to 3'5 in. long (the whole leaf from 10 to 

 14 in. long), petiolule '15 to "25 in. long. Panicles often as long as the 

 leaves, very narrow. Flowers minute, purple, in short distant cy mules ; 

 the sepals smaller than the petals, both pubescent. Stamens about as 

 long as the petals, the filaments short. Drupes black when ripe, oval, 

 glabrous, -15 to -2 in. long. DC. Prod. II, 88; Wall Cat. 8482 ; Blume 

 Bijdr., 1167; Planch, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v., 575 ; Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. I, 523 ; Kurz For. Flora, Burma, I, 202. 



In all the provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. — 

 DiSTBiB. Malayan Archipelago, British India. 



4. EuRYCOMA, Jack. 



Shrubs or small trees, with bitter bark. Leaves very large, un- 

 equally pinnate, with entire glabrous leaflets. Flowers polygamous, in 

 much-branched sub-terminal glandular-hairy panicles. Calyx minute, 

 6-toothed, valvate. Petals 5, induplicate-valvate. Disc consistino- of 5 

 glands alternating with the stamens. Stamens in male and hermaphro- 

 dite flowers 5, smaller in the latter ; filaments attached to the base of 

 the petals. Ovary 5-partite, free ; styles 5, connate, stigmas distinct. 

 Drupes 3-5, stipitate. Seed solitary, pendulous, exalbuminous. — Distrib. 

 Malaya, Philippines. Species 2. 



Branches 1 in. thick, rusty-pubescent ; petals 



•25 in. long, thick, pubescent on both surfaces 1. E. longifoUa. 



Branches "25 in. thick, glabrous, pale ; petals 



•35 in. long, thin, glabrous inside ... 2. E. apiculata. 



1. EuRTCOMA LONGiFOLiA, Jack Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, II, 307. 

 A shrub or small tree ; young branches about 1 in. in diam., densely 

 rusty-tomentose, with large cicatrices. Leaves 18 to 24 in. long ; the 

 leaflets numerous, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acute, entire ; the base 

 oblique, cuneate ; both sui-faces glabrous, the upper shining ; length 

 3 to 4 in., breadth 75 to J in. Panicles usually shorter than the leaves 

 much-branched, many-flowered, clothed (especially in the younger parts) 

 with rufous glandular hairs. Galyja much shorter than the corolla, the 

 segments ovate, spreading. Petals thick, erect, ovate-lanceolate, purple, 

 pubescent, slightly glandular in the upper half outside, ^25 in. long. 

 Stamens longer than the calyx, alternating with 5 rather large bilobed 

 ciliate glands which ax-e large in the male and small in the hermaphro- 

 dite. Fruit of 1 to 5, stipitate, narrowly ovoid, apiculate, ridged drupes, 

 •5 in. long and '25 in. diam. ; the pericarp coriaceous, purple, glabrous. 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 86; Wall. Cat. 8522; Planch, in Hook. Lond. Journ. 



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