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largest and oblanceolate, the lower often oblong, all caudate-acuminate, 

 the edges witli small remote glandular teeth ; the base much narrowed 

 in the upper leaflets, oblique and rather rounded in the lower; upper 

 surface reticulate, shining, glabrous except the pubescent midrib, the 

 lower reticulate and glabrous but pubescent on the midrib and nerves ; 

 length 3 to 6 in., breadth 1 to 1'6 in. ; petiolules '1 in. or less, pubes- 

 cent. Panicles much longer than, the leaves, axillary or terminal, 

 slender, with a few raceme-like branches bearing the flowers in small 

 tini parous lateral cymules. Flowers '05 in. in diam. Calyx campanu- 

 late, deeply divided into 5 ovate sub-acute pubescent teeth. Petals 

 6, longer than the calyx, oblong, truncate, pubescent inside. Stamens 

 5, exserted, the anthers broadly ovate, glabrous : filaments long, pubes- 

 cent and thickened at the base. Bisc cupular, fleshy, glabrous. Ovary 

 bilobed, rusty-pubescent; style short, glabrous. i'Vtti'i with 2 or morp' 

 often with 1 ellipsoid glabrous shining lobe, '75 in. long and "5 in. in.' 

 diam. " ' . , , 



Perak : King's Collectors, N"os. 3479, 3G07, 378 i, 4514, 7255VWray; 

 No. 2912. Singapore : Ridley, No. 6373. 



This differs from P. alnifolia in having its leaflets caudate-acu- 

 minate at the apex and much more nan-owed at the base, and in the 

 midribs and nerves on the lower surface being pubescent as well as the 

 midrib on the upper. The panicles ai'c besides very much longer, and 

 the flowers have longer pedicels than in P. alnifolia ; while the petals, 

 Tv^hich seem to be always present, much exceed the cal^'^x-lobes, 



4. PoMiiTFA ALNIFOLIA, tladlk. iiber Sapiud. HoU.-Ind. 30. A tree 

 50 to 70 feet high : young branches pubescent, reddish when young. 

 Leaves 3 to 8 in. long, equally or unequally pinnate, the rachises slender 

 and pubescent, the petiole not swollen at the base but often with a 

 minute stipule-like leaflet. Leaflets 6 to 9, opposite or alternate, oblong, 

 or oblauceolate-oblong, sub-coriaceous, shortly acuminate, the edges 

 with remote minute glandular teeth : slightly narrowed to the rounded 

 or cuneate base ; upper surface glabrous, shining ; the lower pale and 

 with a few scattered hairs ; main nerves spreading, numerous, parallel, 

 prominent below, length of the upper leaflets 3 or 4 in., breadth 

 •9 to 1"25 in., the lower leaflets smaller and the lowest of all 

 minute. Panicles terminal, axillary, minutely tomentose, about as 

 long as the leaves, with a few racemoid branches bearing the flowers- 

 in lateral cymules. Floivers less than *! in. in diam. ; bracts linear 

 pubescent, pedicels short. Calyx with 5 deep valvate puberulous tri- 

 angular segments. Petals 6, usually shorter than the calyx, sub rotund, 

 villous at the apex inside, or absent. Stamens 6, slightly exserted, the 

 anthers short, the filaments glabrous. Disc cupular, fleshy, glabrous 



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