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bracteoles about '2 in. below the calyx, minute, fugacious. Sepals sub- 

 equal, fleshy witli thin edges, rotund. Petals much larger than the 

 sepals, orbicular to reniform, clawed. Stamens in the male very nu- 

 merous ; anthers sub-sessile, the connective broad, bearing the 2 cells 

 on its edges and produced above them into a broad short truncate pro- 

 cess ; rudimentary ovary flattish, without stigma. Female flowers like 

 the males but with fewer stamens ; orary hemispheric, imperfectly 2- 

 celled ; stigmas 2, sub-sessile, flsit, foliaceous, each divided into 3 or 4 lobes 

 -svitli tliick corrugated edges. Fruit a dry ovoid berry with coriaceous 

 dark-coloured epicarp, *75 in. long, and "2 in. in diam., subtended by the 

 leathery calyx. Seeds 2, large, broad, horse-shoe- shaped, flattish, '5 in. 

 long. 



Perak, at low elevations; Scortechini, King's Collector. 



A very distinct species with leaves curiously like those of Illichim 

 evenium, and with smaller flowers than the other species. 



3. Ternstr(emia coriacea, Scheff. Obs. Phyt, ii, p. 16, (not of Wall. ). 

 A tree 50 to 70 feet high ; young branches light brown, smooth. Leaves 

 coriaceous, usually oblong-oblanceolate with an abrupt short blunt api- 

 ciilus, sometimes oblong-lanceolate and acute ; attenuate in the lower 

 third to the stout petiole ; midrib bold ; main nerves 6 to 9 pairs, spreading, 

 anastomosing "2 in. from the entire margin, rather inconspicuous even 

 when dry ; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1*75 to 25 in., petiole 75 to ] in. 

 Floivers r25 to 15 in. in diam., dioecious, solitary, axillary or from the 

 axils of fallen leaves ; peduncles flattened, deep brown, 15 to 2 in. long, 

 slender ; bracteoles alternate, minute, about "25 in. below the calyx. 

 Sepals fleshy with thin edges, rotund ; the 2 outer rather smaller than 

 the inner 3. Petals larger than the sepals, much imbricate, rotund, 

 fleshy, not clawed. Stamens in the male numerous, from the torus, the 

 connective with a broad rounded apical appendage ; quite absent in the 

 female flower. Ovary globular, 2-celled ; stigmas 2, sub-st'ssile, each 

 deeply divided into 6 to 8 sub-spathulate lobes. Fruit baccate, glolm- 

 lar-ovoid, '75 in. in diam. and nearly 1 in. long, dry, with a coriaceous 

 rind, subtended by the slightly enlsirged hardened calyx and crowned 

 by the remains of the stigma. Seeds about 4, oblong, the testa 

 rugulose. 



Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) 183. Penang ; Curtis, No. 1055. 

 Perak ; King's Collector. Distrib. Bangka. 



Distinguished from the preceding by its anthers, by the venation 

 of its leaves, and by its young branches. Teysmann's specimens from 

 Bangka in no way differ from those from Perak, Malacca and Penang. 

 Wallich's fragmentary specimens, (Cat. No. 7430,) probably ffill here. 

 The plant issued by Wallich as Ternstrcemia coriacea (Cat. No 1453) is, as 



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