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tuse ; the inner rather shorter and narrower, oblong ; all pubescent 

 especially externally. Stamens in the male flowers numerous, with 

 roundish flat heads. Ovaries in the female flower many, curved. Carpels 

 rather numerous, ovoid, slightly apiculate, narrowed into the stalk, rose- 

 red when ripe (Wray), about 1 in. long and '5 in. in diam., glabrous ; 

 their stalks '75 to 1 in. long. 



Malacca ; Maingay, (Kew Distrib.), No. 47. Perak ; common at 

 low elevations. Penang ; Curtis. 



In the texture and nervation of its leaves this species has a strong 

 resemblance to Popowia nervifolia, Maing. and other species in its 

 neighbourhood. But the petals are not those of a Popoxvia, both rows 

 being distinctly imbricate. The fi'uit moreover is larger than that of 

 Popowia, and the albumen is much more cellular in structure being, in 

 this respect, like that of ElUpeia cuneifolia, H. f. & Th. 



6. Ctathocaltx, Champion. 



Trees. Leaves glabrous. Flowers fascicled, terminal or leaf-opposed. 

 Sepals free or united into a 3-lobed cup. Petals 6, 2-seriate, valvate in 

 bud, subequal, bases concave conniving, blade flat spreading. Stamens 

 indefinite, long-cuneate, truncate ; anther- cells linear, dorsal. Ovaries 

 solitary or 2-6, on a concave torus ; stigma large, gi'ooved ; ovules many. 

 JUpe carpels berried. — Distkib. Tropical India and Malaya ; species 8. 

 Ripe carpels ovoid ... .„ ... 1 C. virgatus. 



Ripe carpels globular ... ... ... 2 C. Maingayi. 



In its petals this genus resembles Artabotrys to some extent, but 

 Polyalthia still more. The ovaries in the fii'st two species are usually soli- 

 tary ; in the third they are 3 in number : the ripe carpels of all three being 

 large succulent and many-seeded. Baillon admits the genus as it was 

 established by Champion and accepted by Hooker filius & Thomson. 

 In the above diagnosis I have however modified the definition so as to 

 provide for the species with more than one ovary. 



1. Ctathocaltx virgatus, King. A tree 40 to 60 feet high : young 

 branches slender, pale, glabrous, the tips alone pubescent. Leaves mem- 

 branous, elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, shortly and obtusely acumi- 

 nate, the base cuneate or sometimes rounded ; both surfaces shining, 

 the lower rather darker when dry ; the upper glabrous, the lower 

 pubescent on the 8 or 9 pairs of sub-ascending rather preeminent nerves : 

 length 4 to 65 in., breadth 1-25 to 2-75 in.; petiole "25 to -36 in., pu- 

 bescent. Flowers in axillary, sub-sessile fascicles of 2 or 3, about '75 

 in. long. Sepals united at the base, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, spreading, 

 tomentose, shorter than the inner petals. Petals tomentose-sericeous ; 

 the outer row much longer than the inner, lanceolate, much acuminate, 



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