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Malacca : Maingay, No. 463/2. Perak : Scortecldni. 



3. Meliosma. NiTiDA, Blume Cat. Horfc. Bot. Bogor. 32; Rumpliia, 

 TIT, 202, t. 169 A shrub or small tree : young branches glabrous, 

 leiiticellate. Leaves 12 to 18 in, long, unequally pinnnte, quite glabrous, 

 tlie rachises deeply channelled on the upper surface ; leaflets coiiaceous, 

 7 to 13, opposite or alternate, elliptic-ovate or obovate-lanceolate, acute 

 or shortly acuminate, entire, the base more or less cuneate, rarely 

 rounded ; both surfaces quite glabrous, the lower paler and prominently 

 reLiculate ; main nerves 7 to JO pairs, spreading, curving upvs^ards, 

 interarching at some distance from the margin ; length 4 to 12 in,, 

 breadth J 75 to 4'25 in. ; petiolules '35 to 75 in. Panicles terminal or 

 axillary, rather shorter than the loaves, scurfy-puberulous, the branches 

 short and the flowers densely crowded. Flowers \ in. in diam,, shortly 

 pedicelled ; the buds pointed, the bracteole sini^de and coriaceous. Sepals 

 4, sub-rotund, concave, spreading. Petals 5 ; the 3 outer rotund, valvate, 

 the sutures of their eds^es prominent ; the two inner completely enclosed, 

 small, each with a stamen opposite it. Stamens 2 ; the hooded anther 

 broad, expanded and with two rotund diverging lobes separated by a wide 

 connective, the filament tapering to a narrow base. Ovary ovoid. Frnit 

 obliquely elliptic when young, slightly flattened on one side and keeled 

 on the other; when ripe ovoid-rotund, about 1 in. long and "8 in. in 

 diam. Blume Rumpliia III, 202. t. 169 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1, pt. 2. 6 J 7, 

 Meliosma Sumatrana, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 6. Millingtonia suma- 

 trana, Jack in Mai, Misc, II, 39 ; Nees in Flora for 1825, J06; Miq, Fl. 

 Ind. Hat. I. c. Irina intefjerriina, Blume Bijdr. 231, 



Malacca : Griffith, Maingay, ISTo. 46 J. Penang : Curtis, JN'o. 2836v 

 Perak : (very common) King's Collector. — Distrib, Suraatia. ^ 



Meliosma levis, King n sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet high: 

 leaves 30 to 40 in. long ; the rachises and petioles puberulous and 

 terete, the latter swollen at the base; leaflets 10 to 12 pairs, coria- 

 ceous, narrowly ol)long-lanceolafe, caudate-acuminate ; the edge entire, 

 recurved when dry, the base rather abruptly cuneate : both surfaces 

 glabrous; the upper dull, opaque, olivacieoas when dry, the lower 

 pale brown, tessel ite-areolate ; main nerves 14 tu 16 paii-s, spread- 

 ing, curving, interarching far fi'om the edge : length 5 to 7 in.y 

 breadth 1 to 1"25 in. ; petiole "35 in. Panicles about as long as the 

 leaves with lax racome-like branches, sparsely covered with very short 

 coarse rusty hairs. Floweis less than "1 in. in ditim., sessile on very 

 short woody lateral brancldets ; bracteoles tv/o, unequal, broadly oblong, 

 pube.sceut. /S''?/'a/v 2, sub-orbicular, oimcave, erect, thick, puberulous 

 outside. Petals 5 ; the three outer larger than the sepals, very concavey 

 glabrous, the two inner snuiU and irregular. Stamens 2, or sometimes 3, 

 the anther with wide hooded connective. Fruit unknown. 



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