Talauma.] 



III. MAGNOLIACE^. 



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reticulations fine conspicuous, 6 to 8 in. long, i-y to 2-5 in. wide; 

 petioles -5 in. long. Bud ellipsoid beaked appressed, silky. Petals 

 oblong, blunt, cream or pale yellow, -7 in. long, -3 in. wide. Fruit 

 glabrous, pustular 1-5 in. long. Carpels about 6, beaked. Hab. 

 Mountains. Kedah Peak, about 3900 ft. altitude (Robinson, Haniff). 

 Distrtb. Moulmein, Pungah, Java. 



5. AROMADENDRUM, Bl. 



A tall tree. Leaves lanceolate, coriaceous, small. Flower soli- 

 tary, large, terminal, white. Sepals lanceolate, narrow. Petals 



Fig. 3. — Aromadendrum elegans. 



numerous, narrow, linear. Stamens numerous, slender, half as long 

 as the petals. Carpels connate in a short cone. Fruit obovoid, 

 fleshy, indehiscent, carpels connate. 



Referred by Miquel and Bentham to Talauma, but very dis- 

 tinct in the numerous, narrow petals, resembling those of Micheka, 

 and the pulpy indehiscent fruit, and connate carpels. One species, 

 native of the Malay Peninsula and Java. 



(i) A. elegans Bl. Bijdr. 8. Talauma elegans Miq. Ann. Mus. 

 Bot. Lugd. Bat. iv. 70. 



A lofty straight-stemmed tree about 60 to 80 ft. tall. Leaves 

 finely reticulated dark green elliptic acuminate at each end, thinly 



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