54 Flora of the Malayan Penmsula. 



Fruit at first ellipsoid, but when ripe depressed-globose, 4-gonoug, sub- 

 truncate, about '35 in. across, crowned by the calyx-limb and large disk ; 

 crustaceous ; covered by a smooth pericarp : the placentas 4, cruciate, 

 each bearing about 6 ovules sunk in pits. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 190; 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. Ill, 127. T. flavescens, Baker Fl. Maurit. 144. 

 Nelitris Jambosella, Gaertn. Fruct. I. 134, t. 90 (excl. syn.). Helospora 

 flavescens, Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV. J27, t. 4, f . 3 ; DC Prod. IV. 

 391 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 234. Eupyrena glabra, W. & A. Prod. 423. 

 Bohea glabra, Korth. in ITed. Kruidk. Arch. II. 211. Polyphragmon 

 flavescens^ Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 38. Guettarda ? peduncularis, Wall, 

 Cat. 6222 ; Don. Gen. Syst. III. 551. G. Brimonis and G. missionis 

 Wall. Cat. 6220, 6221. 



In all the provinces: common. — Distrib. Andaman Islands 

 Ceylon, Malay Archipelago. 



VAR. Finlaysoniana ; leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblancolate, shortly 

 acuminate or acute, 3 to 5*5 in. long, the petioles "3 to "6 in. long, fruit, 

 nearly '5 in. in diam. T. Finlaysoniana, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 127. 

 Guettarda Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 6223. G. peduncularis, Wall. Cat. 

 6222, Timonius, Wall. Cat. 8446. 



Singapore : Wallich, G. Thomson, Ridley 2762. Penang : Curtis 

 3388. Pbrak : King's Collector 1529, 6209. Andaman Islands : King's 

 Collector'. 



2. Timonius Wrayi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 20 to 50 feet 

 high ; young branches as thick as a goose-quill, dark-brown when dry, 

 the leaf-cicatrices large, distinct. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or obovate- 

 elliptic, sometimes rhomboidal, the apex acute, the base much narrowed 

 into the long petiole; upper surface olivaceous- brown when dry, 

 glabrous everywhere and shining ; the lower paler, dull, the nerves and 

 midrib ad pressed rusty- sericeous, otherwise glabrous ; main-nerves 6 or 

 7 pairs, only slightly curved, ascending, very bold on the lower surface 

 like the midrib, somewhat depressed on the upper ; length 5*5 to 8 in. ; 

 breadth 2*25 to 4*5 in. ; petiole "6 to 1*5 in. ; stipules lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, sparsely sericeous, about '5 in. long. Male cymes pedunculate, 

 dichotomous, 6- to 8-flowered, the branches bracteate, short, spreading, 

 everywhere densely rusty-pubescent : the peduncle about '5 in. long ; 

 flowers secund, sessile. Calyx "3 in. long, cylindric, campanulate with 4 

 broad blunt unequal lobes, densely rusty-pubescent outside. Corolla 

 coriaceous with wide short tube and 4 blunt, concave, slightly imbricate 

 lobes nearly as long as the tube, rusty-pubescent oatside. Anthers 4, 

 included, linear, sessile. Female floiver not seen. Fruit solitary on a 

 peduncle longer than that of the male cyme, ellipsoid or globose, crown- 

 ed by the large calyx and with a single oblong bract at its base, 



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