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anthers 5, elliptic, included. Ovary small, depressed ; stigma globose. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Perak : Scortecliini, No. 722. 



The nearest ally of this is A. speciosa, Blume, which, however, has 

 leaflets of thicker texture, with more numerous and distinct nerves and 

 squamulose on the under surface. The flowers of the two also differ 

 slightly, those of A. speciosa, although similar in calyx and corolla, 

 having a staminal tube with a wide open mouth, without inflexed teeth 

 and from which the anthers are partly exserted. 



7. AtiLAiA G-ANGGO, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 506. A tree : 

 yonug branches, petioles, midribs and inflorescences covered with minufe 

 rusty scales. Leaves 10 to 24 in. long, equally or unequally pinnate ; 

 leaflets 10 to 15, opposite or alternate, sub-coriaceous, narrowly oblono- 

 or oblong-lanceolate, shortly and ivither abruptly acuminate ; the base 

 cuneate, unequal-sided : both surfaces free from hairs, but covered with 

 very minute scale-like pustules : main nerves 12 to 18 pairs, faint, 

 spreading: length 3 to 5"5 in., breadth 1 to 1"75 in., petiolule -JS to 

 •35 in. Panicles solitary, axillary, nearly as long as the leaves, the 

 lower branches distant, all more or less spreading, tlie flowers on 

 the ultimate branchlets rather crowded. Flowers '1 to "15 in. long, 

 ovoid, sub-sessile. Calyx cupular, minutely pubescent and scaly 

 outside, the mouth with 5 broad blunt erect teeth. Petals 5, larger thau 

 the calyx, elliptic, concave, blunt, glabrous. Staminal tube shorter than 

 the petals, ovoid, the mouth small, circular, not toothed ; anthers 5, 

 narrowly elliptic, included. Ovary small, depres.'ied, 3-angled, densely 

 hairy, ci-owned by the glabrous cylindric grooved stigma. Fruits on 

 short stout pedicels, reniform, compi-essed, 2-celled, 2-seeded, minutely 

 rusty-lepidote, '5 in. broad (perhaps not quite ripe). Miq. Ann. Mus. 

 Lugd. Bat. IV, 47. C. DO. Phaner. Monogr. I, 27. 



South Andaman, Nicobar Islands ; King's Collector. Distrib. 

 Sumatra. 



The flowers of the Andaman specimens agree exactly with those 

 from Sumatra on which Miquel founded the species which is a very dis- 

 tinct one. On each panicle, there appear to be certain flowers with per- 

 fect and others with imperfect ovaries. The panicles bearing fruit are 

 thus in size and ramification exactly like those bearing flowers. A. For- 

 steni, a species founded by Miquel (Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV, 46) on 

 specimens collected in Amboina does not appear to me to be really dis- 

 tinct from this. Under the name of Aylaia Ganggo, Miq., I believe 

 there have been issued from the Calcutta Herbarium some specimens o£a 

 Perak plant (King's Collector, No. 4606), which much resembles this 

 in leaves and inflorescence, but which has a very different staminal tube. 



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