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more narrowed than the calyx-lobes, subacute, glabrous. Stamens 

 longer than tlie petals, glabrous. Ovary sericeous, the style glabrous in 

 its upper half. iMiit ovoid, not compressed, crustaceous-scurfy outside, 

 pale-brown, 2-celled, 1'15 in. long and '8 in. in diam. ; the pericarp 

 crustaceous, 2 in. thick, minutely hairy inside. 

 Perak ; King's Collector ^ 3436, 3711. 



A species resembling P. ohlongifolium, Hook. fil. in it8 leaves which however 

 have fewer nerves ; but differing greatly from that species both in its inflorescence 

 and flowers. 



7. Parinarium asperulum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 307. A tree 

 50-80 feet high ; young branches slender, with dark-coloured bark and 

 a few scanty deciduous pale flexuous hairs. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 oblong-lanceolate, tapering gradually to the obtusely acuminate apex ; 

 the blade narrowed slightly to the base and continued along the sides 

 of the upper half of the short petiole ; both surfaces glabrous and with 

 minute pitted papillae, the lower paler and more reticulate ; main 

 nerves 10-16 pairs, faint, spreading ; length 3-5*5 in., breadth 1-1*65 in., 

 petiole '25 in. Bacemes or panicles axillary or terminal, solitary, half 

 as long as the leaves, minutely tomentose ; the flowers about '3 in. long, 

 (•6 in. to the apex of the exserted stamens) ; the pedicels "1 in. long ; 

 bracts at the base of the flower 2, obtuse, tomentose. Calyx densely 

 tomentose ; the tube clavate, deflexed-pilose inside ; the lobes broadly 

 ovate, subacute, imbricate. Petals longer than the calyx-lobes, obovate- 

 oblong, not clawed, glabrous. Stamens about 10 ; the filaments glab- 

 rous, united at the base. Ovary densely and the style sparsely villous. 

 Fruit sub-ovoid, compressed, very obtuse, with a vertical groove along 

 the two sides, minutely rugulose and densely covered with hard pale- 

 brown scurf, nearly 1 in. long and '6 in. broad, 2-celled ; pericarp thick, 

 bony, hairy inside. 



Penang; Curtis, 20^. Pahang ; Ridley, 2603. Perak ; King's Col- 

 lector, 3537, 7568. Distrib. Sumatra. 



There is an original and authentic specimen of P. asperulum in the Calcutta 

 Herbarium collected by Teysraann in Sumatra, and it agrees absolutely with the 

 Penang and Perak specimens above quoted. The species is near to P. scahrum, 

 Hassk., but has fewer stamens and smaller and differently shaped leaves. The ripe 

 fruit is also presumably much smaller, for specimens of unripe fruit of P. scahrum 

 are as large as specimens of ripe fruit of this species. 



8. Parinarium scabrum, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. (1844), 269. 

 A tall tree ; young branches dark-coloured and with a few scattered hairs. 

 Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate ; the 

 base broad, rounded or very slightly cuneate, eglandular ; both surfaces 

 glabrous, shining, strongly but minutely reticulate, and with numerous 

 small perforate-topped papillce especially on the reticulations ; main 



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