Peralc ; King's Collector, No. 7183. 



Althongli female flowers and fruit of this have not yet been found, I 

 describe it as a new species of Sfelechocarpus without any hesitation. 

 Its male flowers have exactly the facies of those of S. Burahol, Bl. ; but 

 they are larger. They, however, differ as to shape of petals ; the leaves 

 of this species are distinctly pellucid-punctate (while those of S. Btirahol 

 are not) and they are broader and have slightly more nerves than those of 

 8. BtiraJiol. When boiled, the flowers of the two have exactly the same 

 peculiar sweetish smell. 



2. Stelechocarpds nitidus, King, n. sp. A tree 30 to 60 feet 

 high ; all parts glabrous except the inflorescence : young branches 

 darkly cinereous, slender. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, shortly 

 acuminate, the base acute ; both surfaces shining, very minutely scaly, 

 the midrib and nerves deeply impressed on the upper, bold and promi- 

 nent on the lower ; the reticulations distinct on both : main nerves 10 

 to 12 pairs, curved, sub-ascending, inter-ai'ching within the edge : length 

 of blade 6 to 9 in., breadth TS to 3'25 in., petiole '35 in. Male flowers 

 in many-flowered fascicles from tubercles on the trunk, pedicellate ; 

 buds turbinate ; flowers when open probably nearly 1 in. in diam. : 

 pedicels stout, thickened upwards, 1 to I'S in. long, scurfy-puberulous, 

 each with several sub-rotund glabrous bracteoles mostly near its base. 

 Sepals very coriaceous, shortly oblong, obtuse, concave, spreading, con- 

 joined at the base, puberulous or glabrescent, warted externally. Outer 

 3 petals much larger than the sepals and somewhat larger than the inner 

 3 petals, i^otund, concave, very coriaceous, glabrous, with scurfy warts 

 externally near the middle : inner 3 petals coriaceous, rotund, blunt, 

 cucullate, glabrous. Female flowers like the males, stamens none : 

 Ovaries very numerous, obscurely 3-angled, adpressed-sericeous. Torus 

 hemispheric. Ripe carpels broadly ovoid, blunt, 2 6 in. long, 1'75 iu. iu 

 diam., puberulous, minutely warted ; pericarp thick, fleshy. Seeds 

 about 8 in 2 rows, flattened, 1'25 in. long, and '5 in. thick. 



Perak ; in dense forest at low elevations. King's Collector, Nos. 7629 

 and 8224. 



This species has the flowers of both sexes alike. The carpels of 

 this species are much larger than those of S. Btirahol, Bl. ; and its leaves 

 are more thickly coriaceous and shining, the nerves and midrib being 

 much more depressed on the upper and prominent on the lower surface. 

 3. Stelechocarpus Burahol, H. f. and T. Fl. Ind. 94. A tree 

 20 to 60 feet high : young branches slender, dark-coloured, glabrous. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acute or very shortly acu- 

 minate, the base cuneate : both surfaces glabrous, shining, the reti- 

 culations minute and distinct, the lower with miuute black dots, 

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