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leaflets 11 to 13, sub-coriaceous, opposite or sub-opposite, narrowly ob- 

 long, sub-acute, the base rounded or slightly cuneate, slightly oblique ; 

 botli surfaces glabrous : main nei'ves J6 to 18 pairs, prominent on the 

 rather pale under surface : length 4'5 to 8 in., breadth I'-l to 2 in., petio- 

 lule '5 in. Panicles solitary, axillary, nearly as long as the leaves, with 

 few rather distant lax alternate branches, the ultimate branchlets cymu- 

 lose and slightly scurfy. Floivers '15 in. long, sub-rotund. Calyx a flat- 

 tish cup with 3 broad shallow teeth, minutely tomentose externally. 

 Petals^, longer than the calyx, rotund, concave, much imbricate, minute- 

 ly pubescent outside. Staminal tube spherical-obovoid, with 10 small 

 acute teeth, glabrous ; anthers 10, narrowly elliptic, their apices slightly 

 exserted : rudimentary ovary depressed, tawny-pubescent, crowned by 

 the thick fleshy 3-grooved stigma. Female flowers mixed with the males 

 and exactly like them, but with a pyramidal, prominently 3-angled, 

 tawny-pubescent, 3-celled ovary crowned by a stigma as in the male. 

 Fruit obovoid, about 2 in. in diam., on a stout peduncle, its surface 

 tawny-tomentose. Sphaerosacme spectahilis, Wall. MSS. in Herb. Calc. 

 Amoora spectahilis Hiern (not of Miquel) in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 5G1. 

 Kurz For. Flora Burma I, 221. 



Andaman Islands, King's Collectors, Distrib. Burma, Assam, Sik- 

 him. 



There has been some comfusion in dealing with this plant. The 

 description above given is that of Wallich's own specimen (in flower) 

 taken from a tree grown in the Bot. Gard., Calcutta, which had origin- 

 ally been brought from Goalpara in Assam. Fruiting specimens have in 

 more recent years been collected in Assam by Mr. Gustav Mann, for 

 many years Conservator of Forests in that province. Flowering speci- 

 mens exactly agreeing with Wallich's have also been brought from the 

 Andaman Islands. Miquel has described (Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV, 37) 

 under the name Amoora spectahilis, a plant of which he says Spliaero- 

 sacme spectahilis, Wall, is the type. But Miquel's description does not 

 fit Wallich's plant at all. Mr. Hiern, taking Miquel's name A. spect- 

 ahilis, describes under it a plant from Burmah which is certainly not 

 Miquel's plant: bat which may be the same as Sphaerosacme spect- 

 ahilis, Wall. 



9. Amoora rubescens, Hiern in Hook, fil. Fl. Br. lud. I, 561. 

 A tree 30 to 40 feet high ; young branches stout, rusty puberulous. 

 ieaves 18 to 30 in. long: leaflets 13 to 15, opposite, thinly coriaceous, 

 oblong, sub-acute or obtuse, narrowed and oblique at the base, both 

 surfaces glabrous ; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, ascending, rather pro- 

 minent beneath ; length 4 to 5*5 in., breadth 1'75 to 225 in., petiolule 

 •5 in. Panicles solitary, axillary, 8 to 10 in. long, rusty puberulous, the 



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