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reaching a height of 60 feet and considerable girth ; branchlets 

 slender, dark brown, innovations rusty-tomentose. Leaves chartaceous ; 

 elliptic, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely and rather 

 abruptly caudate-acuminate at apex, acute at base and unequal-sided ; 

 glabrous on both surfaces, the margins slightly recurved; 4 to 5 in. 

 long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib prominent, slender ; main-nerves 

 10 to 12 pairs, not prominent, rather irregular, -3 to '4 in. apart, starting 

 at an angle of about 60° vpith the midrib, straight at first, arching near 

 the margin to meet in a looped intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves 

 and reticulations rather scanty; petiole -4 in. long, channelled above; 

 stipules very minute, linear, silky-pubescent, caducous. Flowers 

 fascicled, 1 to 4 together, in the axils of upper leaves ; pedicels slender, 

 •7 to -8 in. long, somewhat clavate, minutely silky ; buds conical, "1 to 

 •2 in. long. Calyx-lobes 4, 2 outer valvate, thick, enclosing 2 inner, 

 broad, ovate, obtuse, ciliate, often scarious on the margins, -2 in. long. 

 Corolla white, campanulate, '2 to 'S in. long ; tube short ; lobes 8, 

 oblong, obtuse or rounded in 2 rows, 4 outer enclosing 4 inner. 

 Stamens 16, -12 in. long ; filaments short, thick ; anthers ovate, the 

 connective produced into an obtuse, glabrous, often bifid actimen, cells 

 extrorse. Ovary villous, rounded ; style subulate, glabrous, -3 in. long, 

 6-celled. Fruit an oblong, ferruginous-pubescent berry, 1 to 1-5 in. 

 long, -7 in. broad, 1-seeded. Seed oblong, bluntly acute at both ends, 

 flattened, '8 in. long, -5 in. broad, -3 in. thick ; testa chartaceous, 

 chestnut-brown, shining; hilum about -15 in. broad occupying the 

 whole inner edge ; albumen thick ; cotyledons oblong, thin, flat, faintly 

 nerved as the leaves, -6 in. long, -4 in. broad; radicle rather large, 

 inferior. Kurz For. Fl. II. 121, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XL. ii. 69, and 

 XLVI. ii. 230 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 547 ; Pierre in Bull. 

 Soc. Linn. Par. I. 525. Mimusops lucida, Wall. Cat. 4147 ; G. Don 

 Gen. Syst. IV. 35 {not of Poir.). 



Penang: Wallich 4147. Peeak : Scortechini 1989; Wray 2266, 

 3114, 3191, 3482; King's Collector 3364, 3734, 6636. Singapore: 

 Lobb 307 ; Bidley. 



Vab. Wightii, Clarke in Hook, f . Fl. Br. Ind. III. 548. Leaves large, 

 up to 6 in. long and 2-5 broad, coriaceous ; pedicels stout ; sepals 

 large, rusty-tomentose. Payena polyandra, Bth. & Hook. f. ; Pierre 

 in Bull. Linn. Soc. Par. I. 526. Isonandra polyandra, Wight Ic. 

 t. 1589. Keratephorns Wightii, Hassk. in Eetzia I. 101. 



Of this variety Clarke makes two forms, which he distinguishes chiefly by the 

 former having short acuminations to the leaves, the latter long acuminate leaves. We 

 have separated the material into these two groups as well as we can. 



Form (1) : Leaves up to 6 in. long, 2-5 in. broad, abruptly acuminate, shining 



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