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glabrous externally except along tlie suture, broadly oblong, blunt at 

 both ends, somewhat compressed, obliquely striate, attenuated to a very 

 short grooved pseudo-stalk, rosy-red when ripe, sparsely stellafe-hairy 

 inside ; length 1*25 in., breadth '85 in. ; the pericarp thin, coriaceous, 

 glabrous inside. Seed narrowly oblong, blunt, with a short arillus at 



its base. 



Perak; Wray, No. 1858. King's Collector, Nos. 5586, 0517, 7519. 



6. CoNNARUS NiCOBARicus, King n. spcc. Scandent, woody, all 

 parts except the inflorescence glabrous; young branches witli pale 

 smooth bark. Leaves 8 to 10 in. long; leaflets thinly coriaceous, 3 to 5, 

 broadly ovate with a very short blunt apical point, the base bioad and 

 rounded; upper surface slightly shining, the lower duller and paler ; 

 main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, faint, curving upwards ; length of lateral 

 leaflets 2'75 to 4-5 in., breadth 1*5 to 2*75 in. ; petiolules about •25 in., 

 the terminal leaflet larger. Panicles terminal (probably also axillary), 

 nearly as long as the leaves, rusty-pubescent, the branches sub-erect. 

 Flowers crowded near the ends of the branchlets. So in. long, on pedicels 

 much shorter than themselves. Calyx- segments ovate, tomentose out- 

 side, glabrous inside, about one-fourth as long as the corolla. Petals 

 linear pubescent on both surfaces. Stamens 10, in two rows, the 

 longer row much shorter than the style and petals ; filaments sparsely 

 pubescent, swollen near the i)ase. Pistil as long as the petals ; the ovary 

 broadly ovoid, tomentose ; style sparsely pubescent. Stigma sub-capitate. 

 Follicle broad, sub-compressed, obtuse, glabrous, faintly striate longi- 

 tudinally, 1'5 in. long, and nearly 1 in. broad, pubescent inside. 



Nicobar Islands ; King's Collectors. 



Allied to C gi'bhosus, Wall., but with pubescent petals and larger follicles which 

 are pubescent inside. 



7. CoNNARUS GiBBOSUS, Wall. Gat. 8541 (in part). A large semi- 

 scandent shrub ; young branches deciduously rusty-puberulous. Leaves 

 6 to 9 in. long, quite glabrous ; leaflets 3 to 5, thinly coriaceous, elliptic 

 or elliptic-oblong, very shortly and obtusely acuminate, the base round- 

 ed • both surfaces shining, the lower reticulate ; main nerves 6 or 7 

 pairs, spreading but curving upwards, the lower pairs very oblique, 

 slightly prominent on the lower surface ; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 

 1-25 to 2-5 in., petiolules -2 to '3 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, 

 shorter than or as long as the leaves, many-branched, rusty-pubescent. 

 Flowers rather crowded on the short ultimate branchlets, '25 in. long, 

 on pedicels shorter than themselves. Sepals and petals as in G. semide- 

 candrus. Stamens 10, the one row only slightly shoiter than the other. 

 Pistil longer than the stamens and petals ; the ovary ovate-rotund, 

 rusty-tomentose, the style pubescent; stigma sub-capitate. Follicles 



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