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minutely rusty-pubescent, "6 in. in diara. when diy. Seeds about 12, in 

 })it8 on the cruciform placentas. 



Perak: Wray 3200, King's Collector 5168. 



This species is very distinct from the others described here. Its nearest ally is 

 one from New Guinea, to which Dr. Scheffer gave the MS. name Polyphragmon 

 sessile. But the latter has smaller leavemore hairy below and with rather more 

 main-nerves ; the petioles moreover are shorter, and the fruits have peduncles less 

 thau '1 in, long. 



3. TiMONius RuMPHii, DO. Prod. IV. 461 A small tree. Young 

 branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, striate, sparsely pubescent at 

 first, finally glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous or membranous, narrowly 

 elliptic, somewhat oblanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, much 

 narrowed at the base : upper surface dark-brown when dry, usually 

 glabrous except for a few hairs on the midrib ; the lower paler, minutely 

 reticulate and with fine white adpressed-sericeous hairs ; main-nerves 8 

 or 9 pairs, slightly curved, ascending, thin and faint on the lower 

 surface, almost obsolete on tlie upper; length 3"5 to 5*5 in. ; breadth, 

 1'5 to 2 in.; petiole "25 to "4 in.; pubescent; stipules lanceolate, 

 caudate-acuminate, shorter than the petioles. Male cymes many-flowered 

 pubescent, with many divergent trichotomous branches; the flowers '3 

 to '5 in. long, secuud, sessile, pubescent; calyx campanulate '05 in. long. 

 Female cymes trichotomous, on peduncles 1 to 1*25 in. long, and some- 

 times bearing small leaves. Floioers in threes, the middle one sessile, the 

 two lateral pedicellate, '4 in. long. Calyx with a subulate bracteole at its 

 base, about as long as the pedicel ; the tube narrowly campanulate 

 4-grooved, densely tomentose, somewhat constx'icted at the base of the 

 less hairy limb ; lobes of limb 4, ovate, subacute, spreading. Corolla 

 coriaceous, '3 in. long, twice as long as the calyx, outside adpressed- 

 pubescent, inside glabrous ; the tube cylindric ; the mouth with 4 blunt 

 lobes. Anthers 4, linear-oblong, sessile. Style stout, grooved by the 

 pressure of the anthers, stigmatic lobes small. Fruit ellipsoid to sub- 

 globose, tetragonous, crowned by the erect calyx-lobes, densely covered 

 with short white deciduous pubescence, "35 in. long: the placentas 

 cruciate bearing many seeds, each enclosed in a woody pyrene. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 127 : Wall. Cat. 6217. Bobea Wallichiana, Korth 

 in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 211.— Rumph. Herb. Amb. III. 216 t. 140. 



In all the provinces : common ; — Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 

 Near T. Jambosella, but with more hairy leaves, more numerous main-nerves and 

 hairier inflorescence. The female flowera are in small cymes instead of beiog 

 solitary as in that species. 



4. TiMONius LAXus, King & Gramble, n. sp. A tree 20 to 30 feet 

 high J young branches thicker than a crow-quill, covered with coarse 



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