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Peuang : Pinara Bukit, elevat. 2000 feet. Curtis (No. 2414). 

 Perak : Waterfall Hill, Wray. Distrib. E. Sumatra, Forbes (No. 1638). 



This species is known only by a few fruiting specimens collected 

 by Messrs. Curtis and Wray Junior. It is nearly allied to P. macrojwda, 

 King ; but its leaves have different venation and texture, the torus of 

 the ripe fruit is smaller, while the carpels themselves are larger and 

 have longer stalks. 



17. PoLYAi>THiA GLOMERATA, King n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet high : 

 young branches glabrous, pale, rather slender. Leaves membranous, 

 elliptic to oblong, slightly oblique, acute or shortly acuminate, the base 

 slightly cuneate or rounded ; both surfaces reticulate, glabrous ; the 

 midrib alone puberulous on the upper, adpi'essed-puberulous on the 

 lower ; main nerves 7 to 8 pairs, curved, ascending, not inter-arching, 

 thin but slightly prominent beneath ; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1*8 to 

 2*6 in , petiole "25 to "35 in. Flowers about 1 in. long, in clusters of 20 

 to 30 from nodulated puberulous tubercles on the stem ; pedicels long 

 (1"5 to 25 in.), slender, puberulous, with an ovate-lanceolate bracteole 

 about the middle. Sepals thick, lanceolate-acuminate with broad con- 

 nate bases, sub-erect, puberulous. Petals coriaceous, sub-erect, linear- 

 oblong, slightly concave and glabrous at the base inside, otherwise 

 minutely tomentose, the inner slightly smaller than the outer. Stamens 

 numerous; the connective with an orbicular sub-convex apical expan- 

 sion concealing the linear dorsal anther-cells. Ovaries much less nu- 

 merous than the stamens, oblong, hirsute, apparently 1-ovuled ; the 

 stigma small, oblong, slightly pubescent. 



Perak; King's Collector, Wray. Distrib. Sumatra; Forbes, No. 

 2804. 



In all the flowers I have examined the pistils are very small (as if 

 undeveloped^ and I have not been able to find more than one ovule. In 

 the Sumatran specimens the flowers are much longer than in those from 

 Perak. 



18. PoLTALTHiA CONGREGATA, King n. sp. A tree 40 to 60 feet 

 high ; young branches at first rusty-pubei^ulous but speedily glabrous 

 and dark-coloured. Leaves thinly coi-iaceous, oblong-elliptic, acute, 

 slightly narrowed to the rounded or minutely cordate base ; upper 

 sm-face glabrous except the depressed puberulous midrib ; the lower 

 pale when dry, glabrous, minutely lepidote ; main nerves 13 to 19 

 pairs, oblique,' curving, thin but prominent beneath ; length 9 to 16 in., 

 breadth 3'75 to 7 in. ; petiole '3 or "4 in. stout. Floivers large, in short, 

 much divided, rough, tubercular, woody cymes from the stem near its 

 base ; the pedicels 1*25 to 175 in. long, glabresccnt ; bracteole single, sub- 

 orbicular, clasping, infra-median. Sepals thick, broadly ovate-triangular, 



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