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Petals 3, thick, rotund, very concave and much imbricate, glabrous inside, 

 sornetimes puberulous outside. Staminal column flesby, globulai'- ovoid, 

 obscurely 3-angled, the mouth almost closed ; anthers 3, broadly elliptic, 

 narrowed to the apex, shortly apiculate ; rudimentary ovary minute, 

 conical, on a small pubescent disc. Female flowers unknown ; the fruit 

 in simple spikes as long as or longer than the leaves, pinkish when ripe, 

 shortly pedicellate, sub-globular, 3-celled, 3-seeded, dehiscent, about 

 •75 in. in diam. ; the seeds ovoid, compressed, witli a scarlet arillus. C. 

 DC. Monogr. Phanor. I., 581. 



Perak : Scortechini, Wray, King's Collector. Penang : Curtis, 

 King. Distrib. Sumatra. 



This species resembles A. Rohituka, W. and A., but it is a smaller 

 tree, the male flowers have only 3 stamens, and the petals are pink. 

 The Perak specimens agree with those in the Leiden Herbarium from 

 Sumatra on which Miquel founded the species. Miquel in his descrip- 

 tion does not mention that the plant is triandrous, — a character by which 

 it can at once be recognised. 



2. Amoora Rohituka, W. and A. Prod. 119. A tree from 30 to 

 70 feet high ; young branches stout, lenticellate, at first puberulous, 

 afterwards glabrous. Leaves 1 to 3 feet long, unequally pinnate, the 

 petioles puberulous; leaflets 9 to J 5, sub-coriaceous, opposite, oblong to 

 elliptic-oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, entire ; the base nar- 

 rowed, often oblique ; both surfaces glabrous : main nerves 12 to 15 

 pairs, spreading ; length 3 to 9 in., breadth 1-75 to 3-5 in., petiolule "2 to 

 •3 in. Male flowers about -15 in. long, sub-globular, in solitary axillary 

 panicles more than half as long as the leaves, the branches about 3 in. 

 long, spreading at right angles or slightly drooping ; the flowers nume- 

 rous, each with a minute scale-like bract, the pedicels short, stoat. 

 Calyx very short, spreading, with 6 or 6 small reniform sepals, pubescent. 

 Petals 3, mach larger than the calyx, orbicular, concave, glabrous or 

 puberulous on the outer surface. Staminal tube nearly as long as the 

 petals, sub-globular, with a small opening at the apex showing the 

 slightly protruding apices of the anthers : anthers 6, sub-sessile, nar- 

 rowly elliptic, attached to the tube near its base ; rudimentary ovary 

 ellipsoid, boldly 3-angled. Female flowers larger than the males, in 

 axillary or slightly supra-axillary, solitary, often puberulous spikes 

 much shorter than the leaves. Sepals sometimes more pubescent than 

 in the male : petals as in the male, the anthers narrower. Ovary sub- 

 globular or ellipsoid with a 3-lobed stigma : disc hypogynous, broadly 

 conical, tawny-pubescent. Fruit sub-globular, yellow when ripe, 1 to 

 1*5 in. in diam. ; the pericarp coriaceous, smooth, 3-celled, opening by 

 3 valves : seed oblong with a scarlet arillus. Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. 



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