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cylindrical, the top rusty-hirsute; style as long as corolla, subulate, 

 glabrous ; cells 6. Fruit a fleshy oblong or obovate berry, smooth, 

 •75 in. long, -5 in. thick, 1-seeded. 



Penang : Curtis 3583, 3659. Pebak : Wray 3984 ; King's Collector 

 6506, 6509. Singapore : Biclley 6019, 6134, 6502, 6507 ; Fox 11307 

 at Bukit Timah ; Cantley 73. — Distrib. Bangka. 



Said to give a kind of " guttapercha." 



8. Palaquium Eidleyi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree (?) ; branch- 

 lets blackish-grey, rough, innovations minutely rusty-pubescent. Leaves 

 chartaceous-coriaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-obovate, obtuse, emarginate 

 or slightly acute at apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous on both surfaces, 

 margins slightly recurved ; 2 to 3 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib broad ; 

 main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs, starting at an angle of about 50° with the 

 midrib, curving upwards to and along the margin, -2 to '3 in. apart ; 

 reticulations many, transverse, impressed above ; petiole "5 to '7 in. 

 long flattened and bordered by the decurrent broad margins of the 

 blade ; stipules small, ovate, hirsute, caducous. Flowers small, fas- 

 cicled in groups of 6 or 7 together in the axils of the uppermost leaves ; 

 pedicels rather thick, about "25 in. long, sparsely appressed-pubescent. 

 Calyx-lobes 6, "1 in. long; 3 outer rounded, shortly mucronate, glabrous, 

 wrinkled when dry ; 3 inner thin, scarious on the margins, ciliate, rusty- 

 pubescent on both sides. Corolla tubular- campanulate, -15 in. long, 

 glabrous ; lobes 6, oblong, obtuse, erose at tip ; tube as long as 

 lobes. Stamens 12, inserted on the top of the tube opposite to and 

 alternate with the lobes; filaments slender as long as the lobes; 

 anthers ovate-acute. Ovary conical, glabrous below, villous above, 

 surmounted by a conical thick style, "05 in. long, 6-celled. Fruit 

 not seen. 



Singapore : Biclley 3591a. 



9. Palaquium microphyllum. King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree (?) ; 

 branchlets rounded, rough, dotted with scars of fallen leaves and 

 flowers ; innovations dark ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves coriaceous ; 

 obovate, obtuse or slightly obtusely- acute at apex, cuneate at base ; 

 glabrous on both surfaces, margins recurved ; 1 to 2 in. long, -7 to 

 1 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed above ; main-nerves indistinct, 

 about 8 to 10 pairs, nearly at right angles to the midrib ; reticulations 

 very faint even when dry ; petiole 4 to -5 in. long, bordered above by 

 the decurrent margins of the blade. Floioers fascicled, 1 to 3 together, 

 above the scars of fallen leaves on the past year's wood'; pedicels -2 in. 

 long, rusty-pubescent. Calyx-lobes 6 ; outer 3 valvate, ovate-acute, 

 '15 to '2 in. long, densely tawny-pubescent ; inner 3 imbricate, ovate, 



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