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Pteleocarpa MALACCENsrs, Oliver iu Trans. Liun. Soc. XXVIIl, 

 515, t. 42. A tree ; young branches terete, glabrous, slender ; all parts 

 except the puberulous inflorescence glabrous. Leaves membranous, 

 oblanceolate or oblanceolate-oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the 

 base much narrowed ; midrib prominent beneath, the 5 or 6 pairs of 

 curving spreading main nerves obscure on both surfaces ; length 3 to 4"5 

 in., breadth 1'25 to 15 in., petiole '6 to '75 in. Panicles terminal, um- 

 bellately cymose, spreading, many-flowered, 1*5 to 2'5 in. in diam. ; 

 bracts minute, deciduous. Pedicels "15 to '25 in. long, filiform, ascend- 

 ing, lengthening in fruit. Floioers yellow, (or red ?) '3 in., in diam. 

 Galyx-lohes broadly ovate, obtuse, puberulous. Corolla four times as 

 long as the calyx, its tube short, the lobes deep, oblong, obtuse. Stamens 

 as long as the corolla ; the filaments slender, glabrous, the anthers 

 elliptic. Ovary on a short thick stalk, oblong, glabrous, compressed, 

 slightly furrowed, obtuse. Fruit 1-25 to 1'65 in. long, the calyx per- 

 sistent at the base not quite so bi'oad. Seed "5 in. long : embryo much 

 shorter than the albumen, Beccari, Malesia, I, 130 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. Suppl. 511. 



Malacca ; Maingay. Penang ; Curtis, Nos. 835 and 1494. Perak ; 

 Wray, No. 3418. Singapore ; HuUett, Nos. 3609 and 3610. 



I have seen an authentic specimen of Bodoncea Laniponga, Miq. 

 (Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 511) and there can be no doubt that it belongs 

 to this or to a closely allied species. It was collected by Teysmann in 

 Eastern Sumatra. Beccari has described (Malesia, I, 130) a species 

 (P. longisttjla) from Borneo, which appears to differ from P. lualaccensis hy 

 the length of its styles and the shortness of the filaments of its stamens. 



22. Caudiopteris, Wall. 

 Hei'baceous, scandent, glabrous, the juice milky. Leaves alternate, 

 long-petiolate, simple, palminerved. Flowers small, hermaphrodite 

 I'egular, in axillary long sparse few-branched panicles. Calyx 5- partite, 

 the lobes imbricate, persistent in the fruit, but very slightly accrescent. 

 Corolla very deciduous, sub-campanulate, deeply 5-lobed, imbricate. Sta- 

 mens attached to the sliort tube of the corolla and alternate with its lobes ; 

 filaments short, glabrous ; anthers 2-celled, introrse, with vertical dehis- 

 cence. Disk none. Pistil free, cylindrical, slightly compressed, 1-celled : 

 crowned by two stigmas, the one stipitate short and capitate, the othei' 

 elongating after flowering. Ouules 2(1 usually aborted), pendulous from 

 the apex of the ovary. Fruit samaroid, obovate, oblong, emarginate at 

 the apex; the nucleus narrow, elongate, prolonged laterally into mem- 

 branous, horizontally striate wings and crowned by the columnar accres- 

 ceub stigma. Seed solitary, pendulous, linear, sulcate, with thin testa, 



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