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Perak, Pangkore. Distrib. Sumatra. 



This comes very near X. Palemhaniciim, but is distinguished from 

 tliat species by its more robust branches, longer leaves, and velvety fruit 

 ■which is not vertically ridged. The two are, however, closely allied. 



7. Xanthophylldm Wrayi, King, n. sp. A shi-ub 3 to 8 feet high, 

 the young branches puberulous. Leaves sub-coriaceous, drying a pale yel- 

 lowish green, elliptic to oblong, more or less acuminate, the base rounded 

 or narrowed ; upper surface shining ; lower slightly dull, pale and rather 

 minutely reticulate ; the main nerves 10 to 13 pairs, prominent, forming 

 arches "2 in. within the edge ; length 6 to 10 in., breadth 225 to 45 in., 

 petiole "3 to '6 in. Floivers "35 in. long, their pedicels shorter than the 

 calyx, in terminal or axillary racemes or small panicles less than a third 

 of the length of the leaves. Sepals ovate, blunt, puberulous. Petals 

 oblong, obtuse, puberulous in the upper, pubescent in the lower, half. 

 Filaments flat, pubescent. Ovary on a glabrous stalk, densely villous, 

 4-ovuled, the disc glabrous. Ftxiit globose, '75 in. in diam. ; when young 

 sericeous, when ripe quite glabrous and boldly verrucose. 



Penang, Curtis; No. 677, Perak, King's Collector, Wray. 



This is not unlike X. affi,ne, Korth, but is distinguished from that 

 species by its sericeous ovary and deeply warted fruit. In its fruit this 

 resembles X. Palemhanicum tmd etirynchtivi ; but it differs from both in 

 its much larger and more numerously veined leaves. 



8. Xanthophyldm Curtisii, King, n. sp. A glabrous tree, 30 to 50 

 feet liigh. Young branches rather robust, dai-k bi'own, glabrous. Leaves 

 coriaceous, drying brown, ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base 

 rounded or cuneate ; both surfaces smooth, dull ; the lower paler, minute- 

 ly reticulate ; main nerves 5 to 6 pairs, not much more prominent than the 

 secondary nerves ; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1 to r3 in., petiole '4 in. 

 Flowers ■4in.long, the pedicels about as long as the calyx. PinitcZes axillary 

 or terminal, few-branched, nearly as long as the leaves. Sepals nearly 

 equal, rotund, tomentose. Petals oblong, obtuse, glabrous except the 

 broadly obovate pubescent keel. Filaments witli an ovoid pubescent 

 swelling near the base. Ovary .«!essile, ridged, pubescent, 2- to 4-ovuled, 

 thick-walled, surrounded by a fleshy glabrous slightly angled but not 

 wavy disc. Style conical, pubescent. Fruit ( very young) globose, 

 tomentose. 



Penang ; Curtis, No. 1591. Singapoi'e ; Murton. 



The leaves of this dry of an olivaceous brown colour. 



Ripe fruit is unknown. Curtis' No. I486 from Penang, of which I 

 have seen no very complete specimen, is probably a variety of this with 

 leaves more attenuated to both base and apex, and with longer more 

 Bpreading panicles. 



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