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very small, snb-orbicular, puberulous. Petals sub-coriaceous, spreading, 

 greenish changing to yellow, broadly lanceolate or oblanceolate, sub- 

 acute or obtuse, the base much narrowed, puberulous or glabrous. 

 JRipe carpels numerous, stalked, oblong, slightly apiculate, glabrous, 

 •4 in. long : stalk slender, '6 in. long. Seed smooth. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. lud. I, 64 {in part) ; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. T, 375 (in part) ; 

 Guatteria Jenkinsii, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 141 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. I, pt. 2, p. 46. Guatteria Parveana Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, Pt. 

 2, p. 48, and Suppl. 378. JJvaria canangioides, Reichb. fil. et Zoll. MSS. 

 Monoon canangioides. Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. II, 18. 



Malacca; Griffith; Maingay, No. 46 (and 45 in part) (Kevf 'Din- 

 trib.). Perak ; King's Collector, No. 3910. Assam and Silhet. 



Specimens from Perak have larger flowers tban those from Assam ; 

 but otherwise they agree fairly well, and both appear to be specifically 

 identical with the Sumatra plant named Guatteria or Monoon canangi- 

 oides hj Miqnel. The Andaman plant which Kurz originally (Andam. 

 Report (1870) p. 29) named Polijalthia andamanica, but which Sir 

 Joseph Hooker (dealing with imperfect materials) reduced (with Kurz's 

 assent) to this species, I have restored to specific rank. Recently 

 received specimens show its flowei^s to be different fi-om those of true P. 

 Jenkinsii (the petals being shorter and narrower), while the carpels are 

 larger. 



11. PoLYALTHiA HooKERiANA, King n. sp. A tree 20 to 70 feet 

 high : young branches softly tawny-pubescent, ultimately glabrous and 

 darkly cinereous. Leaves membranous, obovate-elliptic or oblanceolate, 

 shortly acuminate, narrowed from above the middle to the sub-cuneate 

 base ; both surfaces reticulate, the upper glabrous except the pubescent 

 midrib and nerves : lower glabrous, the midrib and nerves adpressed- 

 pubescent : main nerves 10 or 11 pairs, oblique, forming imperfect 

 arches close to the edge, prominent beneath ; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 

 225 to 3'25 in. ; petiole '15 to "2 in., tomentose. Flowers in pairs from 

 peduncles with several aborted flowers near their bases, extra-axillary : 

 pedicels "5 to '75 in. long, lengthening in fruit, stout, pubescent, with 

 1 or 2 small ovate bracteoles at the middle or below it. Sepals broadly 

 ovate, concave, free or connate only at the base, pubescent outside, 

 glabrous within, 2 in. long. Petals coriaceous, yellowish, subequal, ovate 

 or obovate-oblong, sub-acute, puberulous except at the base inside, 

 only slightly contracted at the base, nearly 1 in. long. Staniens numer- 

 ous, very short, cuneate ; the apical process of the connective thick with 

 a truncate orbicular top hiding the linear dorsal anthers. Oi'ari'es short, 

 oblong, puberulous, with 1 ovule : stigma sessile, large, obovate with 

 sub- truncate lobed apex. Pipe carpels numerous, ovoid, slightl}' apicu- 

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