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sub-acute, or shortly and obtusely acumiuate, the base cuneate ; both 

 surfaces glabrous, tlie lower pale and prominently reticulate when dry : 

 main nerves 6 to 9 paiis, slightly prominent beneath, ascending; length 

 4'5 to 8 in., breadth 1'5 to 3 in., petiole ; '4 to "6 iu. Panicles crowded 

 near tlie apices of the branches, many-flowered, 2 to 4 in. long. Calyx- 

 lohes deltoid, minutely velvety outside. Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 puberulous externally. Stamens broadly ovoid, minutely but obtusely 

 apiculate. Ovary puberulous : stigma sub-capitate, lobed. Pipe fruit 

 ovoid-globose, about 'lb in. in diani., closely embraced by the sliglitly 

 shorter, much thickened, per.sistent, fibrous or woody, rugose, enlarged 

 calyx-lobes. V. Wallichii Dyer in, Journ. Bot. 1878 p. 154. Vatica 

 ruminata, Burck in Ann. Jard. Bot Huitenzorg, VI, 227 t. 29, fig. 1. 



Pena.ig : Wallich, Cat. No. 9018 ; Curtis Nos. 1161, 1218, 1391. 

 Malacca : Maingay No. 201. Trang, King's Collector. Johore, HuUett 

 and King. Perak : common at low elevations. King's Collector, Scor- 

 techini. Distrib., Bangka. 



In the young stages of the fruit of this species the calyx is quite 

 small and embraces only the very base of it, much as in Isanxis ; but as 

 the fruit expands the calyx grows, so that when ripe tlie fruit is, with 

 the exception of its apex, closely embraced by the much thickened, 

 lignified, obscurely toothed calyx-tube. This offers, therefore, a transi- 

 tion between laaiwis and PacTiynocarpus. And, indeed, it is to the former 

 section that Dyer refers it (Journ. Bot., 1. c), and to which Buick 

 refers his D. o-nminata, a species which authentic specimens shew to be 

 identical witli this. Dr. Burck's species, Vatica verrucosa (Ann. Jard. 

 Bot. Buitenzorg) appears also to come very near to this. 



2. Pachynocarpus Stapfianus, King, n. sp. A tree 80 to 100 

 feet high : young branches rather stout, scaly-pubescent at first, ulti- 

 mately glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, broadly elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 

 the apex broadly rounded, slightly narrowed to the rounded or sub- 

 cuneate base : upper surface glabrous, shining, the lower paler, minutely 

 and sparsely scurfy-puberulous on the midrib and nerves ; main nerves 

 10 to 13 pairs, oblique, prominent on the lower, depressed on the 

 uppei", surface; length 5 to 8 in., breadth 275 to 4*5 in., petiole '65 

 to 1 in. Flowers unknown. Pipe fruit almost solitary, 2'5 to 3 in. 

 long, on a woody raceme, globular, slightly apiculate, 1'25 in. diam., 

 closely invested by the gamosepalous, 5-toothed, thickened, woody, 

 rugose, glaberulous calyx. 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 5932 and 6132, 



This very distinct species Avas first recognised as a Pachynocarpus 

 by Dr. 0. Stapf, of the Kew Herbarium, after whom I have named it. 

 Its flowers are as yet unknown ; but it is readily identified by its leaves. 



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