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curved upwards to and along the margin ; reticulations transverse, 

 prominent, raised beneath ; petiole 1-5 to 2 in. long, thickened at base, 

 bordered above by the decurrent margins of the blade, younger ones 

 golden-pubescent ; stipules linear-subulate, '3 to -4 in. long, quickly 

 caducous. Floivers fascicled, about 5 to 6 together, on raised tubercles 

 above the scars of fallen leaves on year-old wood; pedicels in fruit 

 thick, -5 to -6 in. long, golden-pubescent. Calyx-lobes 4, in fruit ovate- 

 acute or rounded, densely golden-pubescent on both surfaces, thick ; 

 rest unknown. Fruit a globose, golden-pubescent, berry somewhat 

 depressed at top and bearing the remains of the persistent style, 

 *5 to -6 in. in diam. Seed not seen. 



Penang : at Highlands, Curtis 3652 (Kew) or 5652 (Calc). 



7. Palaquium, Blanco. 

 Trees, often of great size and containing a milky juice. Leaves 

 usually coriaceous, obovate or oblong, petioled, entire, sometimes 

 covered beneath with a dense silky or tawny pubescence. Flowers 

 fasciculate, in the axils of the leaves or of the scars of fallen 

 leaves, pedicellate. Calyx of 6 lobes, the outer 3 valvate, the inner 3 

 imbricate. Corolla usually campanulate, tube short ; lobes 6, imbricate, 

 often contorted in bud. Stamens 12 or more (up to 18), opposite to and 

 alternate with the corolla-lobes, those alternate often shorter and some- 

 times inserted higher up the tube ; anthers ovate-lanceolate, dehiscence 

 extrorse, connective produced; staminodes none. Ovary villous, 6-celled ; 

 style subulate. Fruit a fleshy, ovoid or ellipsoid, berry, 1-2-seeded. 

 Seeds large, exalbuminous ; the testa erustaceous ; cotyledons thiclv, 

 fleshy; radicle pointed, inferior. — Distrib. About 50 to 60 species, 

 found in South India, Ceylon, Eastern Bengal, Burma, the Malay 

 Peninsula and Archipelago, the Philippines, and Samoa (1 sp.). 

 DiCHOPSis, Thw. in. Gen. PL II. 658. 



Pedicels never over '75 in. long, distributed for some distance 

 down the upper branchlets : — 



Leaves large, 5 to 12 in. long, obovate-obtuse ; branchlets 

 stout, nearly -5 in. thick : — 

 Leaves nearly glabrous and glaucescent beneath, main- 

 nerves distant, irregular . . . . . . 1. P. obovatum. 



Leaves ferruginous-pubescent or -tomentose beneath, 

 main-nerves fairly close and regular : — 



Leaves appressed-pubescent beneath, midrib glabrous 



on upper surface .. .. .. ..2. P. Maingayi. 



Leaves spreading-tomentose beneath, midrib hairy on 



upper surface . . . . . . . . 3. P. Clarkeanum. 



Leaves rarely over 6 in. long, branchlets rarely "25 in. 

 thick : — 



Leaves always more or less obovate : — 



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