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N. SYNANDRA, Mast. ill Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 352. A tree 70 to 

 100 feet high ; young branches stout, their bark dark lenticellate aad with 

 large cicatrices. Leaves large, crowded near the apices of the branches, 

 coriaceous, oblong-elliptic to obovate-elliptic : the apex rounded, eraar- 

 ginate ; the edges sub-undnlate, slightly narrowed in the lower third to 

 the 8ub-cordate base ; upper surface glabrous, lower puberulous ; nerves 

 13 to 22 paii'S, spreading, stout and distinct on both surfaces, the I'eti- 

 culations also distinct; length 7 to 16 in., bi-eadth 3"5 to 8 in. ; petiole 

 1"5 to 3 in., thickened at base and apex ; stipules foliaceous, with very 

 stout midribs. To to 2'5 in. long. Gyynes short (1"5 in. long), crowded, 

 dichotomous, 8 to 12-flowered, from the axils of sub-apical fallen leaves ; 

 the pedicels short, scaly. Flotvers about "6 in. long. Bracts connate into 

 a 3-lobed cup surrounding the base of the flowers. Calyx ventricose 

 with a contracted irregularly and minutely toothed mouth, densely 

 pubescent inside, scaly outside as are the bracts, ultimately involute so 

 as to form an annular cushion "5 in. or more in diam. Petals 5, free, 

 much imbricate, ovate-lanceolate, glabrous. Stamens numerous, the 

 fikameuts more or less connate at the base, unequal ; anthers snb-globu- 

 lar, 2-celled. Ovary eOnical, sessile, densely pilose, not scaly : style 

 slightly longer than the ovary ; stigma capitate, 5-angled. Fruit 6 to 

 8 in. long and 4 to 5 in. in diam., ovoid-conic, pedunculate, with 5 bold 

 rounded vertical angles : the pericarp very thick, woody, externally 

 covered with stout pyramidal sharp spiaes, internally lined with a 

 dense layer of stiff yellow hair; 5-celled, dehiscent. Mast, in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 504. Beccari Ilalesia, iii. 263. 



Malacca, Maingay. Perak ; Scoi-techini, Wray, King's Collector. 



I have seen no specimens of the plant (N. altissima) on which 

 Blume founded this genus. But, judging from his admirable description 

 and fine coloui-ed figure (Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. xvii. 83, t. vi). this species 

 must be very closely allied to that, I find the stamens of this agree 

 both with Blume's description above referred to, and with Sig. Beccari's, 

 in his admirable and splendidly illustrated monograph in Malesia iii. 

 pp. 258 to 268. Ripe fruit and seeds of this are as yet unknown. 



11. CcELOSTEGIA, Benth, 



Tall trees. Leaves simple, entire, scaly beneath. Flowers small 

 (scarcely '25 in. in diam.), cyniose ; the inflorescence, bracts and calyx 

 scaly. Bracts connate into a toothed cup. Calyx with constricted tube, 

 pouched above and constricted at the apex into 5 counivent Jobes. 

 Petals 5, free, inserted near the apex of the calyx tube, counivent. 

 Stamens numerous ; the filaments short, thick, slightly connate at tho 

 base, the apex constricted ; the anthers globose, 3 to 4-celled. Ovary 



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