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below the mouth, included. Ovary narrowly elliptic ; the style long, 

 cylindiic ; sligma capitate with a large central mamjUa, Fruit transver^ 

 sely obloug, tapering to each end, the upper end compressed, acute, the 

 lower terete, minutely rusty-tomeatose ; seeds two, sub-corapressed, "5 

 in. in diam., length (including the tapering ends) nearly 2 ia., breadth 

 •75 in. C. DeCand. Mou, Phan. I, 535. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No 363. Perak : Scortechini. 

 DiSTRiB : Sumatra, Borneo. 



The fruit of this is very peculiar, being in shape something like a 

 epear^head. The central part, in which the two seeds are contained, 

 is transversely-oblong and thick ; above this is a long compressed coui^ 

 cal prolongation filled with a little pulp, while at the base the fruit is 

 gradually narrowed into a stalk. The sparsely-flowered spike-like in^ 

 florescence is also peculiar in the genus. 



2. Chisochbton pauciflorus. King, n. sp. A shrub or small tree; 

 young shoots slender, puberulous, the bark dark when dry. Leaves 

 5 to 15 in. long, equally pinnate ; leaflets thinly coriaceous, 2 rarely 



3 pairs, oblanceolate or oblong^lanceolate, sometimes ovate or elliptic, 

 shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, the base cuneate ; the upper 

 surface glabrous, shining; the lower dull, glabresceut, reticulate, puberu^ 

 lous on the midi-ib and nerves ; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, ascending, 

 curving, slightly prominent beneath ; length 2"5 to 9 in., breadth 1 to 



4 in., petiolules '1 to "2 in. PataGles or racemes from 1 to 3*5 in. long, 

 extra-axillary, puberulous, 2- to 6-flowered. Flowers about 9 in., long; 

 fcheir pedicels "25 to 5 in., puberulous. Calyx flesliy, tubular, the mouth 

 entire and truncate or with 4; or 5 shallow teeth, tomentose, about "25 

 in. long. Petals 4 or usually 6, free, about "8 in, long, fleshy, spathu'-' 

 late-elliptic or elliptic, bluut, minutely tomentose outside, glabrous in^ 

 fiide. Staviinal tube nearly as long as the petals, subrglabrous, obscure^ 

 \j toothed at the mouth ; the anthers from 4 to 8 or 10, varying with 

 the number of petals, small, elliptic, included. Disc small, flat, tomen-p 

 tose. Ovary conical, tapering into the long cylindric style, sometimes 

 namovvly cylindric (probably abortive). Stigma cylindric, obscurely 4-- 

 lobed at the apex. Fruit (uniipe), elliptic, with a stout acute apical 

 beak, tapered at the base, everywhere tomentose, the calyx persistent 

 and slightly accrescent, 



Perak: Scortechini; Wray, No. 2681; King's Collector, Nos. 3128, 

 3313, 3396, 3467 and 44-35. 



This species resembles G. spicatus, Hiern, in leaves ; but has much 

 larger flowers. Its fruit is as yet unknown. This also resembles (7, di- 

 versifoHus, Miq., in leaves, but has larger flowers. 



3. CflisocaETON KuNSTi.EBJ, Kiug, n. sp. A shrub 6 to 20 feet* 



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