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Calyx with 5 ovate acute segments, rusty-tomentose. Petals several 

 times longer than the calyx-seginents, elliptic, obtuse, externally ad- 

 pressed rusty-tomentose but with broad glabrous edges. Feujze flowehs 

 twice as long as the male ; the calyx sub-urceolate ; ovary globose, 

 haii'y. Drupe unknown. Engler in DC. Mon. Phau. IV, 471. 

 Malacca : Maingay, No. 490. 



5. Melanochyla auriculata. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 39. A tall 

 tree ; young branches very stoat, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, sessile 

 or nearly so, oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, shortly and rather abruptly 

 acuminate, the edges subundulate, tapering from the middle to the 

 narrow auriculate base ; both surfaces glabrous and shining, the upper 

 drying of an olivaceous brown, very faintly reticulate, the lower liver- 

 coloured and with the reticulations more distinct ; main nerves about 

 30 pairs, thin but distinct on both surfaces, sub-horizontal ; length J2 

 to 18 in., breadth 3'5 to 475 in ; petiole when present very stout, broad, 

 less than "5 in. long, often adnateto the branch. Male panicles axillary, 

 shorter than the leaves, paberulous ; the branches short, lax, cymose, 

 2- to 3- flowered. Flowers "3 in. long, on stout pedicels about as long as 

 themselves. Calyx campanulate, coriaceous, minutely tomentose outside, 

 deeply cut into 6 broadly-ovate sub-acute segments. Petals 5, longer 

 than the calyx-segments, elliptic, obtuse, externally adpressed-pubes- 

 cent, but with the edges glabrous, internally minutely pubescent and 

 with a large villous tufb in the lower half. Stamens 5, shorter than the 

 petals, with small anthers and pubescent filaments. Male TLOWElta not 

 seen. Drupe oblong, obtuse or depressed-globose, rusty-tomentose, 

 when ripe J -25 to 1-5 in. long, vertically ribbed, stone very thick. 

 Eugler in DC Mon. Phau. IV, 470. 



Malacca : Maingay, No. 491 ; Derry, No. 1189. Singapore ; Ridley 

 Nos. 3588,3975. 



6. Melanochyla rugosa, King n. sp. A large tree; young 

 branches as thick as a goose-quill, tawny-pubescent with long pale 

 flexuose hairs intermixed. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly oblong, some- 

 times almost oblanceolate, shortly and sharply caudate-acuminate, 

 tapering very giadually to the cordate sub-auiiculate base : upper sur- 

 face smooth, shining, and quite glabrous ; the lower dull, pale, and dis- 

 tinctly reticulate, glabrous except a few scattered stiff hairs near the 

 base of the stout grooved midrib ; main nerves 26 to 30 pairs, spread- 

 ing, curving upwards and interarching at the apices; length 7 to 15 

 in., breadth 1'6 to 3"25 in. ; petiole 35 to "5 in., very stout, dilated, pu- 

 bescent like the young branches. Male panicles not seen. Female 

 panicles terminal, about half as long as the leaves, stout, rusty-pubescent, 

 with a few distant short brandies. Female flowers 3 in. in diam., 



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