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tomentum with a few superficial stellate hairs ; main nerves 20 to 

 24 pairs, spreading, prominent beneath ; length 5 to 9 in., hreadth 

 1*25 to 275 in. ; petiolnles abont '15 in. long, bent. Panicles solitary, 

 axillary, more than half as long as the leaves, scarfily rusty-puberalous, 

 the peduncles long, branches few with short racemose branchlets. 

 Floivers on short pedicels, buds narrowly ovoid, "25 in. long. Calyx 

 shortly campanulate, rusty-tomentose outside, with 3 broad blunt spread- 

 ing teeth. Petals 3, larger than the calyx, obovate-rotund, thick, gla- 

 brous. Staminal tube slightly shorter than the petals, narrowly ovoid, 

 the mouth narrow and obscurely toothed ; anthers 6, elliptic, included. 

 Ovary broadly ovoid, depressed, 3-angled, tawny-pubescent, crowned by 

 the glabrous ovoid, 6-angled stigma. Fruit sub-globose, apiculate, red 

 when ripe, rusty-puberulous, 2 to 3 in. in diam., the pericarp pulpy. 

 Seecls narrowly ellipsoid, about 1 in. long. C. DC. Monogr. Phan. I, 585. 

 Aphanamixis rnhigiiiosa, Griff. MSS. 



Malacca, Griffith, No. 1050: Maingay, No. 340 (both of Kew Dis- 

 trib.). Perak: King's Collector. Singapore, Ridley, No. 3790. 



5. Amoora lanceolata, Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 560. 

 A tree ; young shoots minutely rusty-puberulous. Leaves 6 to 10 in. 

 long, unequally pinnate. Leaflets about 17, sub-coriaceous, opposite or 

 nearly so, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, bluntly acuminate, entire, the 

 base sub-cuneate ; upper surface quite glabrous, the lower very minutely 

 puberulous and lepidote ; main nerves very faint, about 25 pairs, spread- 

 ing ; length 2 to 3 in., breadth '6 to '75 in., petiole '2 in. Panicles of 

 male floioers axillary, solitary, neai-ly as long as the leaves, the branches 

 spreading, 1*25 to 2 in. long, many-flowered. Male floioers less than 1 

 in. long, ovoid, on very short pubescent pedicels. Calyx cupular, with 3 

 shallow teeth, pubescent. Corolla much larger than the calyx ; petals 3, 

 concave, glabrous inside, puberulous outside. Staminal tube shorter 

 than the petals, globular, glabrous, the mouth deeply 6-toothed ; 

 anthers 6, included, opposite the teeth, narrowly-elliptic ; rudimentary. 

 Ovary conical, 3-angled, puberulous. Female flowers and fruit unknown. 

 C. DC. in Monogr. Phan. I, 584. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 343. 



6. Amoora cdcullata, Roxb. Corom. PI. Ill, 54, t. 258. A glabrous 

 tree 30 to 40 feet high. Lpaves 12 to 15 in. long, unequally pinnate; 

 leaflets 5 to 9, thinly coriaceous, opposite, oblong-elliptic, sub-falcate, 

 sub-acute, very oblique at the base : main nerves indistinct, numerous, 

 spreading, the midrib strong; length 3 to 5 in., breadth J'2 to 1"5 in., 

 petiolule "8 in. Male panicles about equal to the leaves, axillary, with 

 lax, spreading, corymbiform, sparsely lepidote branches. Flowers "15 in. 

 long, obovoid. Calyx cupular, lepidote outside, with 3 broad blunt 



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