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above ; main-nerves 14 to 18 pairs, slender, about -2 in. apart, incon- 

 spicuous, more or less parallel, starting at an angle of about 80° with the 

 midrib, straight almost to the margin where they are connected by a 

 looped intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves many, forking backwards, 

 reticulations faint ; petiole slender, -75 in. long, channelled above by the 

 decurrent margins of the blade ; stipules short, subulate, pubescent, very 

 caducous. Floivers fascicled, 3-4 together, in the axils of upper leaves, 

 or on terminal leafless branchlets, giving the impression of a terminal 

 inflorescence ; pedicels slender, "4 in. long, pubescent. Calyx-lobes 4, 

 •15 in. long, the 2 outer ovate-valvate, minutely pubescent ; the 2 inner 

 ovate, truncate at apex, almost scarious on the margins, pubescent, 

 imbricate. Corolla campanulate ; tube -05 in. long, glabrous ; lobes 8, 

 imbricate, the 4 rather smaller outer embracing the 4 larger inner, 

 ovate-obtuse, -15 in. long. Stamens 16, inserted in one row on the top 

 of the corolla-tube, those opposite the lobes longer than and behind 

 those alternate with them ; filaments very short, hairy ; anthers ovate, 

 ■075 in. long, extrorse, the connective produced in a rather thick 

 penicillate mucro. Ovary villous, depressed, obscurely 8-lobed ; style 

 subulate, glabrous above, pubescent below, -2 in. long ; cells 8. Fruit 

 an ovate-oblong conical reddish-green berry, 1-5 to 1'75 in. long, 

 obscurely ribbed and rough, at first tipped with the conical remains 

 of the style, afterwards truncate seed 1. Seed 1 in. long, about 

 "4 in. broad, oblong ; testa thin crustaceous, dark brown ; hilum long, 

 narrow ; albumen thin ; cotyledons oblong, "85 in. long, -35 in. broad, 

 faintly 3-nerved ; radicle small, inferior. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XL. (1871) II. 69 ; Burck in Ann. Jard. Buit. V. (1885) 56, tab. 

 VIII. ; Engl, and Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. i. 133, fig. 70. Kerate- 

 phorus Leerii, Hassk. Eetzia I. (1856) 101; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 1039. Azaola Leerii, Teysm. & Binnend. in Nat Tijdschr. Neerl. 

 Ind. VI. 116. 



Peeak : Wray 1539, at 4,900 feet on Batang Padang ; King's 

 Collector 523. Singapore : Cantley 20. — Distrib. Sumatra, Bangka, 

 Borneo (?), Amboina. Vern. " Getah Sundek." It gives a second-rate 

 variety of guttapercha. 



To this species probably belong Ridley 11313, Curtis 3631, and David 10857, 

 all apparently from Sumatra— F^rw. " Getah Sundi." The specimens have 

 leaves only. 



Curtis' No. 3640 "Getah Sundek" from the Bindings is either this species 

 or P. Havilandi; but the fruit is globose, not elongate or obconical. It seems, 

 however, to have been more or less attacked by insects, and may not show its 

 proper shape. 



5. Payena lucida, A. DC. Prod. VIII. 197 (1844). An evergreen tree 



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