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21. Aglaia Griffith!!, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1875, 

 p. 14.6. A ti'ee 30 to 50 feet high ; young branches petioles, rachisrs, 

 petiolules and inflorescences densely clothed with minute rusty stellate 

 pubescence. Leaves 12 to 18 in. long, unequally pinnate ; leaflets 18 to 

 39, opposite or sub-opposite, narrowly elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 

 often slightly oblanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base rounded or 

 sub-cuneate : upper surface glabrous except the rusty tomentose midrib, 

 the nerves inconspicuous ; lower surface sparsely stellaie-pubescent, 

 the midrib and 10 to 12 pairs of bold ciirved spreading nerves tomen- 

 tose ; length 2*5 to 5 or even 6 in., breadth 1 to 1'4 in,, petiolules about 

 •15 in. Panicles solitary, axillary, spreading, many-branched, many, 

 flowered. Floivers about '025 in. in diam., depressed-globular, broader 

 than long. Calyx cupular with 5 deep broad lobes, pubescent out- 

 side. Petals 5, twice as long as the calyx, concave, glabrous. Staminal 

 tube shorter than the petals, glabrous ; anthers 5, ovate, partly exserted. 

 Ovary pubescent ; stigma depvessed-liemisplieric. FrMiYpyriform, densely 

 covered with sub-deciduous rusty scurfy stellate tomeutum, r75 in 

 long, and 1"26 in. in diam. Kurz For. Flora Burma I, 219. A, 

 minntijlora Bedd. var. Griffithu, Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br, Ind. I, 557 : 

 C, DC. in Phaner. Monogr. I, 616, 



Malacca: Griffith, Nos. 10:^9 and 1040 : Maingay, No. 334-2 (JSTo. 334 

 is A. cordata, Hiern). Perak : Scortechiiii, Wray, King's Collectoi- 

 Nos. 4231, 6282, 6341, 6346, 10285, 10925, 10957. 



The flowers of this are less than half the size of those of A. mimc- 

 tiflora Bedd. — a plant of Western Peninsular India, of which Mr, Hiern 

 and M. C. De Candolle make this a variety. On dissecting male flowers of 

 an authentic specimen of Beddome's plant I find, however, that not only 

 are the flowers larger, but they are of a different shape, being globular- 

 obovoid, while those of this plant are depressed-globular and broader 

 than long. The calyx of this, moreover, is about half as long as the 

 petals, while the calyx of Hed dome's plant is not more than a third or a 

 fourth of the length of its petals. Moreover, the leaflets of A. minn^ 

 ^i^ora Bedd., are less numerous than in this plant, and the tomentum 

 on their lower surface is much more dense. The fruit hitherto described 

 as belonging to this plant, is that issued from Kevv as No. 334 uf 

 Maingay's Herbarium. That fruit, however, does not belong to this 

 species, but to A. cordata, Maing. It is globular and, in size as well as 

 in shape, greatly resembles that of A. minutifiora. The true fruit of 

 this ( now described for the first time) is pyiiform and much lai-o-or 

 than that of ^4. minutifiora. On account of these differences, T theiefere 

 follow Kurz in regarding this as a distinct species from the lattex*. 



22. Aglaia membranifolia. King, n. sp. A tree 20 to 60 feet hi-h, 



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