136 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



slender. Sepals rotund, pubescent, edges ciliolate. Petals broadly ovate, 

 glabrous, keel pubescent. Filaments flat and pubescent at the base, 

 otherwise glabrous. Ovary ovoid-elongate, glabrous, 4-ovuled ; style 

 rather flat, pubescent; disc small, glabrous. Fruit globose, "5 in, in 

 diani., smooth ; pericai-p thin, crustaceous. 



Andamnn Islands; Heifer, Kurz, King's Collector. Burmah, Kurz. 



This is not unlike X. Grijithii in its leaves ; but it differs in its 

 glabrous ovary and fruit. 



2. Xanthophtllum Griffithii, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 210. A 

 tree 40 to 50 feet high ; glabrous, except the inflorescence and young 

 fruit. Branchlets robust, dark brown, poli.shed, terete. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the edges 

 slightly revolute, tlie base acute ; upper surface dark (when dry) and 

 shining ; the lower pale, sub-ghiucous, the minute reticulations and 3-4 

 pairs of main nerves distinct; length 3 to 6 in., breadth 1 to 1"5 in., 

 petiole thick, dark-coloured, '35 in. long. Flowers about "35 in. long, in 

 tomentose axillary racemes shorter than the leaves, or in terminal few- 

 branched panicles ; pedicels short, stout. Sepals broadly ovate, blunt, 

 dark brown, tomentose externally. Petals oblong, blunt, glabrous except 

 the pubescent keel. Lower half of jilainents thickened, hairy. Ovary 

 sessile, tomentose, with 4 ovules from its base. Style cylindric, sparsely 

 pilose. Fruit (young), globular, tawny-tomentose. 



Malacca and Perak. Distrib. Burmah (at Mergui). Ripe fruit of 

 this is unknown. 



3. Xanthophtllum Maingati, Hook. fil. in Fl. Br. Ind. I, 2J0. A 

 tiee 'JO to 40 feet high. Branches very slender with pale brown baik, the 

 youngest puberulous. Leaves membranous, lanceolate or elliptic-lan- 

 ceolate, cordate-acuminate, the base narrowed ; both surfaces smooth, 

 the lower pale but not glaucous ; nerves 4-5 pairs, the reticulations fine, 

 not prominent ; length 2 to 3 in., breadth '65 in. to 1 in. ; petiole 

 slender, about "25 in. Racemes axillary and terminal, sometimes branch- 

 ed, the rachises tawny-tomentose, 2 to 3 in. long ; flowers white, "35 in, 

 long. Sepals rhomboid, unequal, pubescent. Petals much longer than 

 the sepals, spreading, glabrous except the pubescent keel. Filaments 

 much curved", with a hairy thickening above the base. Ovary shortly 

 stipitate, ovoid, ridged, tawny-tomentose ; ovules 4, parietal. Fruit 

 globose, "5 in. in diam., minutely tomentose ; pericarp modei"ately thick, 

 puckering when dry. 



Penaug, Malacca and Perak ; at low elevations. 



4. Xanthophyllum gladcum. Wall. Cat. 4199. A tree 20 to 30 

 feet high. Young branches terete, smooth, pale, the very youngest 

 brown and slightly angled. Leaves sub-coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to 



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