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moutti with 8 obscure broad blunt teeth. Ovary depressed and broadly 

 ovoid, pilose, 3-celled ; style short, stout : stigma thickly discoid with 

 an annulus at its base. Frnit unknown. 

 Perak : King's Collector, No. 6349. 



A very distinct species distinguished at once by its small densely 

 crowded flowers in interrupted spicate panicles. 



5. Dysoxylum acutangulum, Miq. Fl. Ind Bat. Suppl. 196, 503 ; 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. TV., 26. A glabrous tree, the young branches 

 rather stout with pale brown striate bark. Leaves 6 to 12 in. long, 

 equally pinnate : the rachis and petiole 4-angled : leaflets 3 or 4 pairs, 

 coriaceous, opposite or sub-opposite, unequal-sided especially towards 

 the more or less acute base, elliptic or ovate, or sometimes slightly 

 obovate, the apex acute or shortly acuminate, both surfaces minutely 

 rugulose and of a pale olivaceous colour when dry ; main nerves imper- 

 ceptible ; length 25 to 45 in., breadth 1*25 to 22 in., petiolule "2 to '25 

 in. Panicles 2*5 to "4 in. long, spreading, puberulous, Floivers rather 

 crowded, -35 in. long. Calyx puberulous, very shallow, with 4 deep 

 reflexed triangular teeth. Petals 4, thin, much larger than the calyx, 

 oblong, sub-acute, puberulous on both surfaces. Staminal tube a little 

 sliorter than the petals, cylindric, the mouth with 8 rather deep sharp 

 teeth, striate, puberulous on both surfaces ; anthers 8, oblong, rather 

 small, slightly exerted. Disc widely tubular, slightly exceeding the 

 ovary, fleshy, its mouth slightly inflexed, obscurely 8-toothed. Ovary 

 adpressed-pubescent, broadly ovoid, tapering into the long style : style 

 glabrescent in its upper part, adpressed-pubescent in the lower. 

 Stigma exserted, shortly cylindric, with a small annulus at its base. 

 Fruit obovoid, 3 in. long ; the pericarp very coriaceous, glabrous, pale 

 brown when dry and minutely rugulose, 3-celled. Seeds one in a cell, 

 ellipsoid and apparently when fresh embedded in pulp. C. DO. in 

 Mon. Phan. I., 625. 



Singapore : Ridley, No. 3828, Perak : Scortechini, No 1048. Dis- 

 TRiB. Bangka. 



The late Pr. Scortechini collected only a single specimen of this 

 which is in flower, and Mr. Ridley collected it in fruit in Singapore. 

 These specimens agree absolutely in their leaves with a specimen from 

 Bangka now in the Leiden Herbarium on which Miquel founded the 

 species. 



Miquel does not describe the flowers, and the specimen lent to me by 

 the Leiden Herbarium has none. In the Leiden Annals, Miquel express- 

 es a doubt whether this plant may not be Aurantiaceous. The flowers 

 (which Miquel had never seen) are however unmistakably Meiiaceous, 

 and the leaflets moreover arc not pellucid-dotted. 



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