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late at the top and somewhat narrowed at the base, "65 in. long, stalks 

 1"2 in. lonsr. Seed solitary, ovoid, smooth, with a vertical furrow. 



Malacca : Maingay (Kew Distrib.). No. 96. Perak ; King's Col- 

 lector ; Wray. 



This is a common tree in Perak. In Malacca, however, it appears 

 to be rare ; for it is so vevy imperfectly represented in Maingay's great 

 Malayan collection (of which the best set is at Kew), that Sir Joseph 

 Hooker, while recognising it as a Polyalthia, had not sufficient material 

 to enable him to describe it in his Flora of British India. 



12. PoLTALTHiA SIMIARDM, Benth. and Hook. til. Gen. PI. I, 25 ; 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, G3. A tree 50 to 80 feet high ; all parts glab- 

 rous except the puberulous leaf buds, under surface of nerves of leaves 

 and inflorescence ; young branches pale brown, striate, sparsely lenticel- 

 late. Leaves sub-coriaceous, ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute 

 or shortly acuminate, the base rounded or sub-acute ; upper surface 

 shining; lower dull, sometimes puberulous on the midrib and nerves ; 

 main nerves 12 to 16 pairs, oblique, prominent beneath ; length 5 to 

 11 in., breadth 2 to 45 in., petiole "25 in. Flowers pcdicelled, in 

 few-flowered sessile fascicles from the axils of fallen leaves or from 

 tubercles on the larger branches : pedicels minutely pubescent, with a 

 small bract below the middle, 1 to I"25 in. long. Sepals small, bluntly 

 triangular, recurved, pubescent outside. Pefah spreading, linear, sub- 

 acute or acute, greenish-yellow to purplish, puberulous outside, glabrous 

 inside, 1 to 1'25 in. long, the inner rather the longer. I?tpe car^e/s stalk- 

 ed, ovoid-elliptic, slightly mammillate, contracted towards the base, 

 glabrous and orange-red to bluish-black when ripe, 1'25 to 1'5 in. long : 

 stalk from 1 to 1'75 in. Seed ovoid, grooved, transversely striate. 

 Kurz For. Fl. Burm. I, 37; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 63. Guatteria 

 simiarum, Ham., Wall. Cat. 644.0; Hook. fil. and Thoms. Fl. Ind. 142. 

 G. fascicnlata, Wall. MSS. ex Voigt Hott. Sub. Calc. 16. Polyalthia 

 lateriflora, Kurz (not of King), Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Pt. 2, (for 1874) 

 52. Unona simiarum, H. Bn., Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch-Chine, t. 23. 



Andamans, Bot. Garden Collectors. Perak, King's Collector. For- 

 ests at the base oi the Ea.stern Himalaya, the Assam range, Chittagong, 

 Burm ah. 



Var. parvifolia, King : leaves smaller than in typical form (3'5 to 

 6 in. long and 1"25 to 2 25 in. broad) puberulous beneath. 



Perak ; .at elevation of 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Distrib, Sumatra : on 

 Goenong Trang, Lampongs. (Forbes, No. 1536). 



13. Polyalthia lateriflora. King. A tree 50 to 70 feet high : 

 young branches lenticellate and striate ; all p.arts except the inflores- 

 cence quite glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong to elliptic-oblong 



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