198 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



bordered above by the decurrent margins of the blade, rusty-pubescent.. 

 Flowers small, fascicled 4 to 6 together in the axils of the leaves or 

 on tubercles above the scars of fallen leaves ; pedicels "3 in. long, 

 slender, decurved, pubescent ; buds very small, globose. Calyx 6- 

 lobed, 3 outer valvate, and 3 inner imbricate, •! in. long, lobes ovate 

 acute, pubescent. Corolla campanulate ; tube short, rusty-hirsute vyith- 

 out ; lobes 6, oblong-linear, recurved in flower, hairy within at the 

 base, '15 in. long, imbricate. Stamens 12 ; filaments long, exsert ; anthers 

 ovate, mucronate, extrorse, as long as filaments, hirsute. Ovary sub- 

 globose, rusty-pubescent, 6-celled ; style slender, -3 in. long ; stigma 

 capitate. Fruit not seen. 



Pebak : Wray 1104. Malacca: Ifamf/a?/ (K.D.) 995 ; Scortechim 

 1892; Hervey. Vern. "Jongek" (Hervey). 



Wray says the gutta is sticky and worthless. 



12. Palaquium stellatum, King & Gamble. A large tree, stems, 

 reaching over 100 feet in height ; branchlets rather thick, dark brown, 

 rough with the scars of fallen leaves ; innovations ferruginous-pubescent. 

 Leaves membrano-chartaceous, clustered at the ends of the branchlets ;. 

 oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; nearly 

 glabrous above, pale and when young tomentose beneath, rusty- 

 stellate-tomentose (Scortechini) on the nerves on both sides ; 3 to 6 in. 

 long, 1 to 1-5 in. broad; midrib prominent; main-nerves 10 pairs, 

 starting at about 60° with the midrib and at once curving upwards; 

 reticulations prominent on both sides in an elegant network; petiole 

 •75 to 1 in. long, slender, densely rusty-pubescent. Floioers fasciculate, 

 3 to 5 together in the axils of the upper leaves, forming almost a 

 terminal leafy corymb of about 20 to 25 flowers ; pedicels slender, 

 about 1 in. long, densely rusty-pubescent. Calyx-lobes 6, densely 

 rusty-pubescent, in 2 series ; the outer of 3 valvate, ovate, rounded 

 lobes, the inner of 3 ovate ciliate lobes with scarious margins ; both -25 

 to '3 in. long. Corolla campanulate, -3 to -4 in. long, the tube a little 

 shorter than the lobes ; the lobes imbricate, twisted in bud, rounded at 

 top, glabrous. Stamens 12 in one series ; filaments on the base of the 

 tube and attached to it, free above, "2 in. long, thickened below, slender 

 above ; anthers oblong-lanceolate, apiculate, extrorse, "1 in. long, gla- 

 brous. Ovary rusty-pubescent, sub-globose ; style slender, -35 in. long ; 

 cells 6 (?). Fnoit not seen. DiclioiJsis stellata, Scortechini MS. in 

 Herb. Calc. 



Peeak : Scortechini, 1855. 



A very distinct species, looking very like a Bassia. Scortechini says it yields good 

 gutta, but in small quantities. 

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