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than the leaves, narrow, sometimes branched, axillary, interrupted. 

 Flowers on short pedicels with minute ovate, acute bracts at the 

 base ; oblong-ovate in bud, less than '] in. long. Petals ovate, glabrous 

 outside with a few coarse hairs inside. Ovary vertically striate. Fruit 

 ovoid-pyriforra, 1*25 in. long, and '8 in. in diani. ; the pericarp glabrous, 

 thin, the endocarp bony, with one large cell and a single seed. Valeton, 

 Olacinece, 104. Petalinia hancana, Beccai'i in Malesia, I, 257. 



In all the provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 

 Common. — Distrib. Borneo. 



This is a very common tree in the Malayan Peninsular where its 

 vernacular name is " Petaling." The same name is applied to it in 

 Borneo, and of this name Beccari's Petalinia is an adaptation. 



4. Bracea, nov. gen. King. 



Arboreous ; leaves alternate, simple, entire, petiolate. Panicles 

 few-branched, axillary or terminal, nearly as long as or longer than the 

 leaves. Floivers hermaphrodite, small, shortly pedicelled, scattered or 

 sub-glomerulate, minutely bracteolate. Calyx of 5, free, imbricate, 

 broad, non-accrescent, campanulate sepals. Petals 6, hypogynous, slightly 

 united at the base, much imbricate, glabrous. Stamens 5, opposite the 

 petals ; filaments shorter than the anthers, very broad. Anthers ovate, 

 innate, 2-cellecl, with introrse longitudinal dehiscence. Staminodes 

 none. Ovary broadly ovate, pyramidal, tapei'ing to the short style, 

 imperfectly 2-celled at the base, 1-celled towards the apex; stigma 

 small, 2-lobed. Ovules 2, from a short axile basilar placenta. Fndt 

 drupaceous, 1-celled, with a single spuriously erect seed. 



A genus near Ochanostachys, Oliver ; but with only 5 stamens, 

 very different in form from those of that genus. I dedicate this to 

 Mr. L. Brace, formerly Curator of the Calcutta Herbarium. 



1. Bracea paniculata, n. sp., King. A glabrous tree 60 to 70 feet 

 high ; young branches dark-coloured, smooth. Leaves coriaceous, ovate 

 to elliptic, sub-acuminate, the base rounded ; upper surface shining, the 

 lower dull ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, curved, sj)reading, slightly promi- 

 nent beneath when dry ; length 35 to 8-5 in., breadth I 85 to 275 in., 

 petiole '65 to "8 in. Panicles with few, spreading, spike-like branches. 

 Floioers 1 in. long, on pedicels of about the same length, glabrous, the 

 calyx half as long as the corolla; petals and sepals broadly ovate. 

 Stamens shorter than the petals, glabrous; disJc hypogynous. Fruit 

 drupaceous, ellipsoid, blunt, glabrous (unripe), "75 in, long, and '4 in. in 

 diam. ; the calyx persistent at its base, but not accrescent ; pericarp 

 fleshy, endocarp leathery. Seed solitary, attached to the base of the 

 cell. 



Perak ; Scortechini^ No. 288, King's Collector, No. 8086. 



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