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8, included, eloQgate-elHptic, alternate with the lobes. Disc cylindric, 

 short but longer than the ovai-y, thinly fleshy, crenulate, glabious. 

 Ovary depressed, 4-celled, sericeous as is the base of the short stout 

 style; stigma slightly exserted, discoid. Fruit (young) narrowly obo- 

 void, shortly apiculate, narrowed at the base iuto a pseudo-stalk, ob- 

 scurely 4-angled, densely but minutely tawny-tomentose, 1"5 in. long, in- 

 cluding the pseudo-stalk. C. DC. Monog. Phan. I, 499. Epicharis densiflora, 

 Blume Bijdr. 167; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, p. 639. Epicharis 

 altissima, Blume ex Miq. I.e. Guarea densifiora, Spreng., Syst. IV, 253. 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 4934, 8826, 10093 and J0443. Wray 

 No. 437. Scortechini, No. 166 J. Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 



In the youngest staii^es the fruit is ovoid : as it ripens it becomes 

 obovoid and the base becomes nari'owed into a pseudo-stalk. 



14. Dysoxtlum cdneatum, Hieru in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 651. 

 A large tree. Leaves 18 to 30 in. long, unequally pinnate ; leaflets about 

 13, sub-coriaceous, opposite or sub-opposite, elliptic- oblong, shortly 

 cuspidate; the base cuueate, unequal-sided ; both surfaces glabrous, the 

 lower punctate ; main nerves 14 to 17 pairs, spreading, slightly promi- 

 nent beneath when dry ; length 4 to 7 in., breadth 2 to 3 in. ; petiolules 

 •15 in., stout, that of the terminal leaflet "75 in. Spikes cinereous- 

 tomentose, only a few inches long in flower, but elongating much in fruit, 

 (from the branches below the leaves ?) clustered. Flmvers ■35 in. long, 

 sub-sessile, bracteolate. Calyx half as long as the petals, campanulate, 

 with 4 obtuse irregular deep teeth, pubescent. Petals 4, oblong, sub- 

 imbricate, sub-glabrous S'tamimil-iiibe longer than the petals, glabres- 

 cent outside, villous inside, the mouth with 8 obtuse shallow teeth. 

 Anthers 8, shortly ovate, included. Disc membranous, tubular, about 

 as long as the ovary, glabrous outside, pubescent inside, its mouth mi- 

 nutely crenulate. Ovary ovoid-conic, pilose ; style cylindric, sparsely 

 pilose in the lower part, glabrous above, stigma discoid with an annu- 

 lus at its base. Fruiting-spike half as long as the leaves : ripe fruit sub- 

 globose, about 1 in. in diam., sub-glabrous, the pei'icarp splitting into 

 about 4 valves; seeds oblong, plano-convex, •75 in. long, C. DC. in Mon, 

 Phan. I, 496. 



Malacca : Maingay (Kew Disteib. ), No. 322-2. 



Known only by Maingay 's scanty specimens ; allied to D. catiliflorum 

 in inflorescence flowers and fruit. 



15. Dtsoxylum uacemosum. King n. sp. A shrub, all parts gla- 

 brous except the young shoots a-id the inflorescence. Leaves 12 to J 8 

 in. long, equally pinnate. Leaflets membranous, alternate, elliptic- 

 oblong, the apex shortly acuminate, the base broad, slightly unequal ; 

 main nerves b to 10 pairs, carving, spreading, slightly prominent beneath, 



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