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slightly recurved, the base broad and rounded, or narrowed and sub-acute ; 

 both surfaces glabrous ; the lower slightly paler, the midrib tomentose at 

 the base beneath ; main nerves 11 or 12 pairs, spreading, prominent, 

 evanescent at the tips ; length 4-5 to 7-5 in., breadth r75 to 3"5 in., 

 petiole "35 to "5 in., tomentose when young. Flowers about 1'5 in. long, 

 in few-flowered fascicles from small tubercles on the older branches ; 

 their pedicels 2 in. long, bracteolate about the middle, softly tawny- 

 tomentose. Sepals broadly half-orbicular, very short, reflexed, tomen- 

 tose. Petals coriaceous, nerved, pale green, oblong-lanceolate or ob- 

 lanceolate, sub-acute or obtuse, pubescent on the outer, tomentose on 

 the inner, surface ; the outer slightly shorter and narrower than the 

 inner, from '9 to 1"5 in. long and "3 to "5 in. broad. /S/a7nens numerous, 

 compressed, the apical process of connective truncate ; anthers linear, 

 dorsal. Ovaries numerous, glabrous, vertically striate ; stigma sessile, 

 truncate, puberulous. Itipe carjpels numerous, crowded wdien young, 

 densely covered with minute pale tomentum ; when ripe narrowly 

 obovoid, blunt, narrowed to a short stalk, sub-tomentose, 1'75 in. long 

 and about 1 in. in diam. ; pei-icarp thick, fleshy ; seeds two, plano-con- 

 vex. 



In its leaves this resembles Guatteria pondoh, Miq. (Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Suppl. 380), but that species has carpels with stalks from 2 to 3 in. 

 long. 



Perak ; at elevation under 1,000 feet, King's Collector, Nos. 6C55 

 and 7516. 



28. PoLTALTHiA PTCNANTHA, King. A tree ? Young branches 

 rather stout, covered with soft yellowish pubescence. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, elliptic-oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, the base 

 obtuse or rounded : upper surface glabrous ; lower paler and puberulous 

 on the midrib ; main nerves arching, prominent ; length 6 to 9 in., 

 breadth 2'5 to 3'5 in. ; petiole "2 in., pubescent. Floivers '5 to "75 

 in. in diam.. in fascicles from tubercles on the larger branches, 1 to "5 in. 

 in diam. ; flower-peduncles '25 in. long, pubescent, ebracteate. Sepals 

 ovate, acute, "2 in. long. Petals linear, obtuse, flat, sub-equal, the bases 

 of the inner three concave, "5 to "75 in. long, pale sericeous outside, 

 glabrescent inside. Torus columnar-flat-topped, glabrous : ovules 2, 

 superposed. TJnona pycnantha, Hook fil. in PL Br. Ind. I, 60. 



Malacca ; Maingay. 



12 Anaxagorea, St. Hilaire. 



Trees or shrubs. Leai;es with pellucid dots. FZoiyers small, greenish, 

 leaf -opposed. Sepals 3, valvate, connate at the base. Petals 6 or 3, sub- 

 equal, 2-seriate, valvate, the inner row sometimes absent. Torus convex. 



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