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Floioers sub-globulai*, less than "1 in. long. Sepals broadly ovate, blunt, 

 sericeous on the outer, pubescent on the innei' surface. Petals smaller 

 than the sepals, elliptic, obtuse, shortly bifid, the lobes blunt. Filaments 

 very short, the anthers ovate, the cells anterior. Ovary conical, laxly 

 sericeous. Ripe drupe transversely oblong, compressed, '65 in. broad, 

 and only 'Ji in. long, minutely tomentose. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. lud. I, .570. 



Langkani; Curtis, No. 1687. — Distrib. Burma, Wall. Cat. 4038. 

 Tenasserim; Heifer (Kew Distrib.), No. 2172. 



Curtis's Langkani specimens are in fruit only, and those of Heifer's 

 Tenasserim collecting (the type of the species) are in flower only. But 

 the two seem identical. I have not seen the Wallichian sheet No. 4038. 



5. Chailletia Laurocerasus, Planch, ex Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 

 572. A scandeut glabrous shrub 30 to 40 feet long ; young branches 

 slender, dark-coloured. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 

 obtusely acuminate, the base narrowed, upper surface shining when dry, 

 the lower paler ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, spreading, faint ; length 35 

 to 4"5 in., breadth 1'5 to 2"5 in., petiole about "1 in. Gymes axillary, 

 globose, few-flowered, "3 in. in diaxn., shortly pedunculate. Flowers 

 •15 to 2 in. in diam. Sepals hoary outside, glabrous inside, broadly 

 ovate or orbicular, concave. Petals longer than the sepals, glabrous, 

 oblong, cut half way down into two oblong blunt concave slightly diver- 

 gent segments. Filaments nearly as long as the petals ; anthers shortly 

 ovate. Ovary densely lanate-sericeous, broadly ovoid ; style stout, 

 stigma concave. Brupes transversely oblong or globose, 1*25 in. in diam. 

 when ripe, the epicarp hoary ; enclocarp thick, tuberuled outside, 1- or 2- 

 seeded. Wall. Cat. 7513, (indeterminatx) . 



Peuang ; common. Perak : King's Collector. 



6. Chailletia andamanica, King n. sp. A small tree ; young 

 branches pale-brown, lenticellate, puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 elliptic-oblanceolate or elliptic-obovate, abruptly and shortly blunt-acu- 

 minate, much narrowed at the base ; both surfaces glabrous, minutely 

 reticulate, pale when dry ; main nerves 4 to 6 pairs, much curved and 

 interarching far from the edge, only slightly prominent on either sur- 

 face ; length 3 to 475 in., breadth J'25 to 25 in., petiole '15 to "2 in. 

 Stipules lanceolate, about as long as the petiole. Flowers in dense axil- 

 lary shortly pedunculate dichotomous cymes. Buds ovoid-globular. 

 Sepals 5, sub-rotund, very concave, hoary externally, much imbricate. 

 Petals 5, quadrate, not bifid, glabrous, shorter than the sepals. Sta- 

 mens shorter than the petals, the filaments very short, anthers ovate. 

 Rudimentary ovary ovoid, compressed, hairy. Female Jloivers not seen. 

 Fruit about "5 in. broad, and "4 in. depth, transversely oblong, much 

 compressed, puberulous, divided into two lobes by a deep vcrlical groove, 



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