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Perak: King's Collector, N'os. 10551, 10580, and probably also 

 No. 10181. 



17. Dtsoxylum plavescens, Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 549. 

 A tree. Leaves 1 to 2 feet long; leaflets 9 to 13, membranous, alternate, 

 elliptic, oblique, shortly acuminate, glabrous ; the base slightly oblique, 

 rounded ; main nerves numerous, sub-horizontal, very indistinct on both 

 surfaces, the midrib prominent especially on the lower; length 3 to 5 in. 

 breadth 1-25 to 2 in., petiolules '2 to '25 in. Spihes axillary, 2 to 4 in. 

 long. Flowers crowded, '35 in. long, sub-sessile, 4-merous, puberulous. 

 Cahjx very short, nearly flat, 4-toothed, roughly puberulous. Petals 4, 

 minutely pilose outside, glabrous inside, slightly imbricated, pale yellow. 

 Staminal-tuhe glabrous below, slightly pilose above, its mouth crenate. 

 Anthers 8 or 10, ovate, included. Disc glabrous, exceeding the ovary, 

 dull reddish-orange, its mouth entire or undulate. Ovary minutely 

 4-f arrowed, hairy, 4-celled ; style cylindrical, hairy ; stigma discoid. 

 C. DC. in Mon. Phan. I, 494. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 321. 



This is kuown only by Maingay's scanty and incomplete specimens. 

 The preceding description is largely taken from Maingay and 

 Hiern, 



18. Dysoxtlum andamanicum, King n. sp. A tree 20 to 30 feet 

 high. Leaves 6 to 10 in. long, unequally pinnate, the petiole and rachises 

 angled, very pale when dry ; leaflets 3 to 5, membranous, alternate, 

 oblong to ovate, slightly oblique, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base 

 caneate or rounded, both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves 6 to 10 pairs, 

 spreading: length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1"35 to 1'75 in., petiolules "25 in. 

 Spikes slightly supra-axillary, 1 to 2 in. long, few-flowered, puberulous. 

 Flowers "35 in. long, their pedicels about 2 in., puberulous. Calyx a 

 shallow minutely 4-toothed glabrous cup. Petals 4, much longer than 

 the calyx and slightly imbricate, oblong, sub-acute, convex at the apex, 

 pale puberulous especially externally, reflexed, rarely deciduous.- Stami- 

 nal tube shorter than the petals, widely cyliudric, slightly inflated 

 near the base, slightly puberalous, the mouth with 9 or 10 broad erose 

 teeth. Stamens 8 to 10, alternate with the teeth; anthers shortly 

 ovate, slightly exserted. Disc fleshy, annular, crenulate, shorter than 

 and adherent to the ovary at its base. Ovary conic, densely white 

 pubescent, tapering into the stout style ; stigma included, discoid with a 

 small annulus at its base. Fruit depressed-globular, obscurely 3-grooved, 

 glabrous, the pericarp thickly coriaceous, 1*25 in. in diam. Seeds 2 or 3, 

 elliptic. 



South Andaman : King's Collector. 



19. Dysoxtlum rugulosum. King n. sp. A tree 15 to 25 feet high : 



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