142 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



In leaf chai-acters this comes near to the Sumatran X. vitellinunif 

 Blume ; but the two differ in flower and fi-uit. 



17. Xanthophyllum AFFINE, Korth. in Miq. Ann. Lugd. Bat. I, 

 271. A shrub or tree; youn^ branches gLabrous, pale brown. Leaves 

 thiiily coriaceous (drying of a more or less yellowish pale green, especial- 

 ly beneath), elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, 

 the base cuneate ; upper surface smooth, shining, lower dull pale and 

 yellowish ; main nerves 5 to 8 pairs, ascending, prominent beneath ; 

 length 4) to 7 in., breadth TS to 25 in., petiole "3 to '4 in. Flowers 

 •35 in. long, the pedicels nearly as long. Panicles axillary or 

 terminal, few-branched, minutely tomentose, the axillary half as 

 long, the terminal as long as, the leaves. Sepals unequal, ovate- 

 rotund to rotund, blunt, tomentose externally. Petals obloug, ob- 

 tuse, pubescent near the base or wholly glabrous, the keel al- 

 ways pubescent. Filaments flat, pubeiulous. Ooary shortly stipitate, 

 glabrous, fi'om 8- to 14-ovuled. Style short, flat, pubescent. Bisc 

 annular, fleshy, glabrous, often wavy. ^r(a7 globose, *5 to 1'25 in. in 

 diam., smooth ; pericarp thin, crustaceous. Hook. fil. Fl, Br. Ind. I, 209. 



In all the provinces ; common. Disti-ib. Malayan Archipelago 

 generally. Tenasserim. 



This occurs as a bush and also as a tree. It varies a little as to 

 colour and shape of leaves, and as to the pubescence on the petals. But, 

 when its commonne.ss is considered, its characters are really remarkably 

 constant, that of the size of the individual alone excepted. 



18. XANTHOPHYLLnM BUI, LATUM, King, n. sp. A slirub or small tree 

 with large, sub-sessile leaves ; young branches robust, pale, puberulous, 

 lenticellate. Leaves coriaceous, drying a pale greenish-yellow, elliptic- 

 oblong, sub-obovate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the edges sub- 

 recurved ; slightly narrowed to the cordate, snb-auriculate, slightly 

 unequal base ; bullate, especially in the lower half, shining and glabrous on 

 both surfaces, the lower a little paler ; main nerves 18 to 25, bold on 

 lower surface, and sometimes puberulous as in the strong midrib ; length 

 11 to 18 in., breadth 4 to 6'5 in. ; petiole '25 in., very stout, glandular. 

 Flowers "4 in, long, the pedicels twice as long as the calyx. Panicles ter- 

 minal, many-branched, spreading, pubescent; bracts deciduous, ovate. 

 Sepals unequal, rotund, fleshy, concave, tomentose, the edges of the 

 inner two thin and ciliate. Petals ovate-rotund, glabrous, not much 

 larger than the sepals. Filaments flat, fleshy, glabrous. Ovary glabrous, 

 ovoid, 8-ovuled, surrounded by a glabrous fleshy annular wavy disc ; 

 style glabrous ; stigma conical, pubescent. Frziit globose, glabrous, 

 •75 in. in diam. (? ripe ;) pericarp thick, crustaceous. 



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