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the apical tail is vsometimes as much as '75 in., breadth '8 fco 1*2 in.; 

 petiole '2 in. Male Jiowers "15 in. in cliam , in axillary fascicles of 2 or 

 3; buds g^lobose, pedicels "15 in.; perianth reflexed, sf'/jaZs 4, the outer 

 less than half as large as the inner pair, all orbicular, sub-coriaceous and 

 concave; petals 4, ovate-orbicular, blunt, with a thickened spot near 

 the base, covering^ th » stamens in bud ; s/aviens numei'ons, on both 

 surfaces of 4 fleshy processes; anthers sessile, g-lobular-oblon;?, the con- 

 nective rather thick, 2-celled, dehiscence vertical ; rudy. style cylindric, 

 convex, smooth. ]\[nle flowers axillary, solitary, pedicels as in the 

 male; sepals 4, orbicular, thin, concave, about the same size as the petals 

 and neither sepals nor petals quite coverinuf the stigma in bud : petals 

 4, orbicular, concave, with a coloured thickened spot Tiear thobrise; 

 disc lobed, shallow, fle.shy ; starninodes none; ovary cylindric; stigma 

 hemispheric, smooth, entire, enveloping the whole of the ovary, uHi- 

 mately becoming discoid and slightly depressed in the middle. 



Perak ; on Ulu Batang Padang and on Gunong Batu Patch, at 

 elevations of 4,500 feet and upwards. Wray, Nos. 267, 362, 1527; 

 Scortechini, No. 3286. 



I have not seen ripe fruit of this, but (from the appearance of a 

 young one) it is probably ovoid. In its leaves, this species rather re- 

 sembles 0. merguensis and rostrata. 



6. Gaiicinia DiVEitsiPOLiA, King, n. sp. A tree 40 to 60 feet \nss}\ ; 

 young branches rather thick, 4-angled, yellowish. Leaves lanceolate 

 and sub-acute, to elliptic and shortly and bluiitly cuspidate, tlie base 

 always cuneate ; upper surface shining, the lower dull, slightly pal© 

 when dry ; midrib prominent on both surfaces ; the nerves numerous, 

 about "05 in. apart, spreading, straight, visible on the upper, invisible 

 on the lower surface ; length of the lanceolate form 3'5 to 45 in., 

 breadth \b to J'75 in.; length of the elliptic form 25 to 425 in. ; 

 breadth 1"4 to 2'75 in., petiole "2 to '4 in. Male flowers '75 in. in diam., 

 in 3- to 6-flowered, bracteolate, axillary cymes ; buds globular-ovoid ; 

 pedicels unequal, from '2 to '4 in. ; bracteoles orbicular, fleshy ; sepals 4, 

 orbicular, fleshy, concave, the outer pair small, united by their bases and 

 sometimes irregularly denticulate, inner pair as large as the petals ; 

 petals 4, ovate-orbicular to orbicular, fleshy, concave ; stamens very 

 numerous, occupying both sides oF 4 fleshy processes; anthers sessile, 

 2-celled, the connective thick, bifid, bearing at its upper part the two 

 sub-orbicular suturally-dehiscent cells ; rudy. pistil with cylindric stj'l© 

 thickened upwards ; the stigma large, hemispheric, entire, sub-papillose. 

 Female jlowers in cymes like the males but fewer-flowered and often 

 terminal, perianth as in the male; staminodes apparently none ; ovary 

 depressed -globose, smooth ; stigma sessile, discoid, entire, its surface 



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