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beneath ; main-nerves very numerous, parallel, nearly at right angles 

 to midrib, meeting in an intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves 

 similar, reticulations slanting ; petiole thick, -25 in. long, pubescent. 

 Floivers small, in rounded axillary fascicles ; pedicels slender, -1 to 

 •2 in. long, ferruginous-pubescent. Calyx-lobes 5, ovate, glabrous 

 or pubescent outside, thick, ciliate on the margins, "07 to •! in. 

 long; tube short. Corolla tubular-campanulate, -1 in. long; lobes 5, 

 short, ciliate on the margins. Stamens 5, shorter than the corolla, 

 opposite the corolla-lobes and inserted on the base of the tube ; 

 filaments slender ; anthers ovate, apiculate and ending in a minute 

 tuft of hairs, extrorse, slits somewhat lateral. Ovary rounded, obscurely 

 5-lobed, surrounded by a thick tuft of long ferruginous hairs ; style 

 thick, cylindro-conical, glabrous ; cells 5. Fruit a globose or obscurely 

 5-lobed berry 1 to 1"5 in. in diam., strongly 5-lobed when dry, 

 ferruginous-tomentose when young afterwards smooth, yellowish- 

 green, with thick glutinous pulp. Seeds "6 in. long, -5 in. broad, 

 flattened, the outer edge curved, the inner nearly straight ; hilum 

 oblong, conspicuous, pale ; testa very hard, thick, shining, chestnut- 

 brown ; embryo erect, cotyledons flat, -4: in. broad, ovate, obtuse, 

 3-nerved ; radicle large, cylindric. A. DC. Prod. VIII. 162 ; Clarke 

 in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 535 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 236 ; Kurz 

 For. Fl. II. 118 and in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. (1877) 228 ; 

 Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 76 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 138 ; Cooke Bomb. 

 Fl. II. 88 ; Burck Ann. Card. Buit. V. i. (1886), 4 ; Koord. & Val. 

 Bijdr. I. 130. C. acuminatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 599 ; Wall. Cat. 4160 

 {not of Lamk.). C. lanceolatum, A. DC. I.e. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 1035. G. javanicum, Steud. Nom. Ed. II. i. 359. Nycteristition 

 lanceolatum, Bl. Bijdr. 676. 



Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3600 ; Mamgay (K.D.) 980 ; Goodenough 

 1739. Singapore: Bidley 2756, 5837.— Distrib. British India; 

 Burma ; Java ; Sumatra. 



Curtis No. 1072, collected at Batu Ferengy, Penang, and now in the Kew 

 Herbarium, seems to be a new species of Chrysophyllum. The leaves are chartaceous, 

 lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, glabrous, shining, 2 to 4 in. long, "75 to 

 1 in. broad, the veins indistinct. Flotvers unknown. Fruit a fleshy berry, 5 in. 

 in diam., 5-lobed when dry, glabrous. Seeds -4 in. long, -25 in. broad, rounded on 

 the outside, narrowed and somewhat concave within ; testa hard, dark chestnut- 

 brown, shining; hilum narrow. It might be called C. Curtisii, n. sp., King & 

 Gamble. 



2. Sakcosperma, Hook. f. 



Glabrous trees. Leaves coriaceous or chartaceous, opposite and 

 alternate, oblong ; stipules caducous. Flowers small, sessile or fascicled 



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