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narrower and thinner and a little shorter than the outer, cinereous- 

 puberulous. Stamens about 24, narrow : anthers linear, lateral, the 

 connective ending in a broadly oblong apical process. Ovaries numerous, 

 narrowly oblong, pointed, densely rusty-hirsute, multi-ovular : style 

 short, filiform, glabrous ; stigma minute. Bipe carpels numerous, much 

 elongate, cylindric, glabrescent, with transverse partitions between 

 the seeds, many-seeded, sub-moniliform when dry, 2 to 5 in. long. Seeds 

 oblong, rugose, minutely pellucid-dotted, "3 in long. Habzelia ferruginea, 

 H. f. and T. Fl. Ind. 123. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 37. Artaboirys 

 malayana, Griff. Notul. IV, 713. 



Malacca: Griffith. Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 85. Perak : 

 Scortechini, King's Collector, Wray : common. Selangor : Curtis. 



16. Xylopia Ridleyi, King n. sp. A tree ? Young branches stout, 

 densely rusty-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, obovate-elliptic, abruptly 

 and very shortly acuminate, narrowed from below the middle to the 

 slightly cuneate base : upper surface glabrous except the rufous-puberul- 

 ous midrib : lower softly rusty-tomentose with longer, superficial, paler 

 hairs : main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, oblique, inter-ai'ching boldly within 

 the margin, prominent on the lower, depressed on the upper, surface ; 

 length 6'5 to 8'5 in., breadth 2'75 to 3"5 in. ; petiole "5 to "6 in. stout, 

 tomentose. Floioers in extra-a:^illai'y (often leaf-opposed) fascicles of 

 3 to 5 : pedicels stout, rufous-tomentose, with a single bracteole, "25 to 

 "3 in. long. Sepals broadly ovate, long-acuminate, rufous-pubescent 

 outside, glabrous within, '35 in. long. Petals filiform, triquetrous, with 

 expanded concave vaulted bases concealing the andro-gynoecium, and 

 glabrous inside, otherwise pubescent, 2'5 to 3'5 in. long. Stamens nu- 

 mei-ous, with truncate 4- or 5-angled heads concealing the elongate, 

 lateral anthers. Ovaries obliquely ovoid, densely sericeous, 4- to 6- 

 ovuled : stigmas fleshy, agglutinated. Ripe carpels unknown. 

 Singapore : Ridley. 



21. PH.EANTHUS, H. f. and T. 



Trees or climbers. Floioers solitai'y, terminal or in extra-axillary 

 fascicles. Sepals 3, small, valvate. Petals 6, valvate in 2 I'ows ; outer 

 small like the sepals ; inner large, flat, coriaceous. Stamens numerous, 

 oblong or quadrate, truncate ; anther-cells dorsal, distant. Carpels nu- 

 merous ; style cylindric or clavate, sometimes gi^ooved ventrally. Ovules 

 1-2, sub-basal, ascending. IJipe carpels staked, 1-seeded. — Distrib. 

 Species about 6 ; one in Southern Peninsular India, the rest Malayan. 

 Leaves softly pubescent ... ... ... 1. P. nutans. 



Leaves glabrous. 



Ovules and seeds solitary ... ... 2. P. lucidus. 



Ovules and seeds in pairs .,. ... 3. P. andamanicus. 



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