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brous, the larger hispidulous-pubescent. Flowers "3 in. in diam., gla- 

 brous, shorter than the slender minutely bracteolate pedicels. Calyx 

 with 3 broad, spreading, very blunt teeth, much shorter than the corolla. 

 Petals 3, thick, slightly keeled on the back, ovate, obtuse. Stamens 6, 

 free, about as long as the petals, inserted on the outer margin of the 

 6-lobed, glabrous, cushion-like disc ; anthers ovate, about as long as 

 the thick rather flattened filaments : rudimentary ovary submerged in 

 the disc, small, sub-cylindric, glabrous as is the thick fluted style ; 

 stigma 3-lobed. Female Jloivers unknown. Pipe drupes narrowly 

 ellipsoid, trigonous, one side wider and flatter than the other two, 

 glabrous, 1 to 1"4! in. long and "6 to "7 in. in diam ; stone thin. 

 Canarium laxum, A. W. Benn. in Hook. fil. Fl. B2. Ind. I. 535 ; Engler 

 in DeCand. Monog. Phanerog. IV, 139. 



Malacca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib.,) No. 366. Perak : King's col- 

 lector, Nos. 3192 and 3516. Penang : Curtis No. 1431. Pahang; Ridley 

 No. 2451. 



The drupes of this have the remains of the stigma terminal, and in 

 this respect they agree technically with the diagnosis of Canarium. 

 But they are not equally 3-sided as in that genus, one side being wider 

 and more rounded than the other two. The structure of the flower is 

 not at all that of Canaritcm, and I therefore transfer the species to 

 Santiria. 



3. Santiria fasciculata, A. W. Benn. in Hook. fil. Fi. Br. Ind. I, 

 539. A tree 40 to 50 feet high : young branches at first rusty-pube- 

 scent, becoming glabrous, the bark pale cinereous. Leaves 10 to 15 in., 

 the rachis terete, at first puberulous, afterwards glabrescent, slightly 

 flattened on the upper siu-face near the base. Leaflets 5 to 7, mem- 

 branous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, more or less caudate-acuminate, the 

 base cuneate, both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, spread- 

 ing, much curved, interarching, bold and prominent on the lower, in- 

 conspicuous on the upper surface ; length 4"5 to 9 in., breadth 2 to 3 

 in ; petiolules '75 to 1 in., much thickened at each end, the terminal 

 one much longer. Panicles slender, puberulous, terminal, as long as or 

 longer than the leaves, with few long, narrow, angular, lax branches 

 bearing at intervals short 6- to 10-flowered cymules. Flowers '05 in. 

 long ; the pedicels unequal, tomentose, bracteolate. Calyx cupular, 

 hispid-tomentose outside with 3 bold, deltoid, acute teeth. Petals 

 imbricate, slightly longer than the calyx, deltoid, glabrescent. Stamens 

 6, filaments about as long as the broadly ovate anthers and inserted 

 outside the edge of the ring-like glabrous disc. Ovary ovoid, glabrous. 

 Pipe drupes narrowly and obliquely ovoid, flattened on one side, slightly 

 gibbous at the base, glabrous, the scar of the stigma terminal, -8 in. 



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