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liipe carpels (fide Hooker) 2 or 3, sub-globoso or ovoid, pubescent, 5 in. 

 long, 2-secded. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 85 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 

 2, 38. Guatteria (O caudata, Wall. Cat. 6452. 



Singapore : Wallicli, Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 79. Malacca ; 

 Griffith. 



10. Xtlopia stenopetala, Oliver in Hook. Ic. Plantar, t. 1563. A 

 tree 50 to 60 feet high : young branches dark-coloured, glabrescent, 

 minutely lenticellate. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, shortly 

 and obtusely acuminate, the base sub-cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, 

 shining ; the lower glaucous or glaucescent, sparsely adpressed-pubes- 

 cent ; both reticulate ; main nerves 10 or 12 pairs, spreading, inter- 

 arching close to the edge, faint : length 2o to 4'5 in., breadth I'l to 1"6 

 in., petiole '25 in. Flowers axillary, solitary or in fascicles of 2 to 5 ; 

 pedicels slender, often decurved, puberulous, with one minute bracteole, 

 •5 to "75 in. long. Sepals united to form a small puberulous cup with 

 acute, spreading teeth. Petals fleshy, very narrow, slightly expanded 

 and concave at the base, minutely tawny-pubescent, the inner slightly 

 shorter and narrower. Stamens linear, the connective prolonged into 

 a cylindro-conic apical appendage; the anthers fusiform, lateral. Ovaries 

 numerous, elongate, pubescent, 6-ovuled ; style filiform : stigma sub- 

 clavate. Bipe carpels oblong, sub-terete, narrowed to the stalk, 2 to 25 

 in. long and -5 in. diam. : pericarp fleshy. Seeds 1 to 4 : stalks thick, 3 

 in. long. 



Penang; on Government Hill at 600 feet : Cartis Nos. 857 and 880. 



11. Xylopia Scortechinii, King n. sp. A tree 50 to 60 feet high : 

 young branches rusty-tomentose, ultimately glabrous, much striate and 

 pale brown. Leaves coriaceous, obovate-elliptic to elliptic-oblong, very 

 shortly and abruptly acuminate, slightly narrowed to the sub-cuneate 

 rounded slightly oblique base : upper surface glabrous, the midrib 

 slightly rufous-puberulous near the base : lower surface pale, sparsely 

 rufous-pubescent especially on the midrib and 10 to 14 pairs of oblique, 

 rather straight, prominently raised main nerves ; length 4 to 7 in., 

 breadth 175 to 4 in. ; petiole "35 in., pubescent. Flowers rarely solitary, 

 usually in fascicles of 2 to 5 on tubercles in the axils of leaves or of 

 fallen leaves ; pedicels short, (-2 to '25 in.), stout, rusty-tomentose with 

 a sub-mesial bracteole. Sepals quite free, broadly ovate, blunt, pubes- 

 cent outside, glabrous inside. Petals thickened, linear-obtuse with an 

 orbicular concave claw, vaulted over the stamens and pistils, 125 to 175 

 in. long, pubescent everywhere except on the glabrous concavity of the 

 claw. *S7am(??2.s numerous, with truncate 4- or 5-angled apices concealing 

 the lateral anthers. Ovaries few, short, oblong, pubescent, 4- or 5-ovuled ; 

 stigma large, oblong. Pipe carpels broadly ovoid, blunt, rufous-pubes- 



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