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but has broader leaves and much more condensed panicles than tliat 

 species. 



3. Retinoden'dron KuNSTr.ERi, King n. sp. A tree, 20 to 50 feet 

 high, sometimes a shrub : young bi^anches slender, deciduously stellate- 

 puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong- to oblong-hmcco- 

 late, sometimes slightly obovate, sub-acute or shortly and bluntly 

 acuminate ; the base cuneate, rarely rounded : upper surface glabrous, 

 the midrib and nerves pubescent ; tlie lower quite glabrous ; main nerves 

 7 to 9 pairs, ascending, slightly prominent beneath : length 2'25 to 4 5 

 in., breadth 1-25 to 1'75 in., petiole '25 to 4 in. Bacemes axillary, I 

 to 1'5 in. long, sparsely scaly. Flowers '4 in. long. Culijx-lohes ovate- 

 lanceolate, puberulous. Pe^c//s oblong-elliptic, oblique, obtuse, puberulous 

 outside. Anthers slightly and sharply apiculate. Ovary puberulous, 

 stigma capitate. Ripe fridt globular, with a long curved apical beak, 

 glabrous, about "25 in. in diam. Calyx-lobes all accrescent, sub-equal, 

 oblong, tapering slightly to the sub-obtuse apex, the base slightly 

 auricled, thickly membranous, glabrous, 3-nerved, the longest about 

 1"3 in. long, and '35 in. broad, loosely surrounding, and longer than, the 

 fruit. 



Perak ; Scortechini, Wray, King's Collector ; very common at low 

 elevations. 



In this species all the five calyx-lobes are accrescent and of nearly 

 equal size. They are quite free from the ripe fruit, round which they 

 foi'm a loose semi-inflated investiture. Its nearest ally is Vatica 

 bancana, Scheffer, {Betinodendron bancantim). 



8. IsorTERi, Scheffer. 



A tall resinous tree. Leaves coriaceous, enfii'e, feather-veined. 

 Floivers in axillary or terminal panicles. Cahjx-tuhe very short, the 

 segments ovate-rotund, imbricate. Stamens 30 to 35, the anthers ovate, 

 the cells divei'gent at the biisc, acute, the valves equal, the connective 

 produced into an apical bristle-like appendage. Ovary 3-celled, the loculi 

 bi-ovulate ; the style short, terete, 3-angled at the apex. Fruit indehis- 

 cent, 1-seeded, the pericarp coriaceous. Frniting-calyx an open cup 

 not embracing the fruit ; its lobes all slightly enlarged, spreading (not 

 winged) ; the outer 3 rotund, broader than the 2 narrower inner lobes. 



One species — Malayan. 



1. IsoPTEUA BoRNEEXSis, Schcff. MSS. cx Burck in Ann. Bot. 

 Jard. Buitenzorg VI, 222. A large tree : young branches slender, 

 dark-coloured, sparsely Icnticellate, glabresceut. Leaves coriaceous, 

 oblong, sub-acute, slightly narrowed to the rounded base : upper surface 

 glabrous except the puberulous midrib ; the lower pnlo. pflfibmns ; main 



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