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Malacca : Rfaiiigay. Perak ; Scoi-tecliini, Wray. 



In some carpels there are two seeds, such carpels being about twice 

 as long as those with a single seed. Although i-eferred by the late 

 lamented Father Scortechini to the genus Melodorum, this is an undoubt- 

 ed Polyalthia in its stamens, in its J- rai'ely 2-ovuled ovaries, and in its 

 carpels with usually solitary, ovoid seeds. In externals, save and except 

 the much smaller size of the flowers, this much resembles the plant 

 figured by Pierre under the name of JJnona Mesnyi (Flore Forest. 

 Coch-Chine, t. 17) to which indeed Pierre reduces P. aherrans. 



22. Polyalthia bullata. King n. sp. A shrub 6 to 8 feet high : 

 young branches densely covei'ed with long soft spi'eading golden hairs. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, buUate (at least when dry), narrowly oblong, 

 acuminate, narrowed but slightly to the deeply cordate auricled base : 

 both surfaces boldly reticulate, the upper shining, glabi'ous except the 

 sulcate puberulous midrib ; the lower glabresceat except the midrib and 

 nerves which have sparse hairs like those on the young branches : main 

 nerves 25 to 40 pairs, spreading towards the base, sub-ascending to- 

 wards the apex, forming a double series of arches within the margin, 

 bold and prominent on the lower, depressed on the upper, surface : 

 secondary nerves and reticulations prominent ; length 12 to 14 in., 

 breadth 2 75 to 3'.35 in. ; petiole "25 in , pubescent like the young 

 branches. Floioers solitary, terminal or axillary, 1 in. long ; pedicels 

 slender, 1 in. long, pubescent, bivacteole small, mesial. Sepals small, 

 lanceolate, spreading, free, sparsely pubescent outside, glabrescent inside, 

 about "25 in long. Petals narrowly linear, slightly wider at the base, 

 subequal, sub-concave, sparsely pubescent. Stamens numerous, the 

 apical process of the connective sub-convex, orbicular, slightly granular. 

 Oyaries much fewer than the stamens, oblong, pubescent; the stigma 

 sub-capitate-truncate, puberulous. Ripe carpels globular-ovoid, blunt at 

 each end, puberulous, '4 in. long; stalks slender, '2 in. long. Seeds 2, 

 plano-convex, the testa rugose, pale : the albumen horny. 



Singapore: Ridley. Perak; King's Collector, 



Evidently a rare shrub ; i-eadily recognisable by its elongate very 

 bullate leaves. 



23. PoLTALTHiA SUB-CORDATA, Blume Fl. Javae, 71 t. 33 and 36 B. 

 A shrub or small tree : young branches sparsely hispid-pubescent, after- 

 ■wax^ds glabrous and furrowed, not pale. Lea i;es membranous, sub-sessile, 

 oblanceolate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, shortly and obtusely caudate- 

 acuminate ; the base slightly narrowed, sub-cordate, auriculate at one 

 side ; both surfaces glabrous except the sometimes puberulous midrib : 

 main nerves 9 to 12 pairs, slender, the reticulations lax and faint : length 

 45 to 9 in., breadth 16 to 3 in. ; petiole 05 in., pubescent. Floioers 



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