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blunt, scarious and ciliate on the margins, tawny -pubescent on the back, 

 •1 to -15 in. long. Corolla tubular-rotate; the tube very short, scarcely 

 •05 in. long ; the 6 lobes oblong or nearly spathulate, •! to -15 in. long, 

 reflexed in flower, sparsely hairy without. Stamens 12, filaments 

 slender, recurved ; anthers ovate, -075 in. long, bi-mucronate. Ovary 

 tawny-villous, conical; style "15 to -2 in. long, straight; cells 6. 

 Fncit not seen. 



SiNGAPOEE : at Bukit Timah, Bidley 10840. 



10. Palaquium hexandbum, King & Gamble. A tree; branchlets 

 light brown, innovations ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves chartaceous, 

 glabrous ; elliptic-oblong, shortly and bluntly acute at apex, attenuate 

 and more or less unequal at base ; 4 to 5 in. long, 2 to 2-5 in. broad ; 

 midrib thick, prominent ; main-nerves 10 to 13 pairs, starting at about 

 65° to midrib then arched upwards, reticulations obscure. Floivers 

 fasciculate, 3 to 4 together in the axils of the leaves or the scars of 

 fallen leaves ; pedicels slender, "4 in. long, minutely pubescent. Calyx- 

 lobes 6 ; 3 outer valvate, 3 inner more or less imbricate, pubescent 

 outside, ciliate, "05 to '07 in. long, apex scarcely acute. Corolla cam- 

 panulate ; tube "1 in. with a ring of hairs near the mouth inside ; lobes 6, 

 imbricate, -15 in. long, oblong obtuse, spreading. Stamens 12, inserted 

 on the top of the tube, 6 opposite to and 6 alternate with the lobes, 

 the alternate ones shorter ; filaments slender ; anthers exsert, ovate- 

 lanceolate, bi-mucronate, as long as filaments. Ovary rounded, thickly 

 rusty-pubescent; style subulate, -25 in. long. Fruit a fleshy berry, 

 about -75 in. in diam., smooth, 1-seeded. Seed ovoid, -7 in. long, -5 in. 

 broad, scarcely flattened ; testa thin, brown, shining ; hilum very 

 large, occupying about one-half of the seed ; albumen none. 

 Dichopsis hexandra, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. iii. 543. Ison- 

 andra hexandra, Griff. Notul. IV. 292. Payena Griffithii, Kurz For. 

 Fl. II. 121, and Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 230 {fide Clarke, 

 hut with doubt). 



Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3609 ; Maincjay (K.D.) 984. Singapgee : 

 Bidley 11373.— Distrib. Burma (?) 



11. Palaquium Hebveyi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A large tree ; 

 branchlets rather stout, dark brown ; innovations minutely rusty- 

 pubescent ; leaf-bud scales lanceolate, "15 in. Leaves chartaceo-cori- 

 aceous ; elliptic or elliptic-obovate, very shortly acute or sometimes emar- 

 ginate at apex, cuneately attenuate often unequally at base ; glabrous 

 above except on midrib and nerves, sparsely rusty-pubescent beneath, 

 afterwards glabrate, cinereous when dry ; 2 to 3'5 in. long, 1-25 to 1*75 in. 

 broad ; midrib prominent ; main-nerves 5 to 7 pairs at about 45° with 

 ■the midrib and arching upwards, reticulations obscure ; petiole -5 in. long 



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