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nerves J3-15 pairs, slender, spreading, with a few shorter intermediate; 

 lenfTth 4-6 in.,- breadth J'76-275 in., petiole '2 in. Panicles (sometimes 

 reduced to racemes) axillary and terminal, often two or three together, 

 mnch shorter than the leaves, adpressed-pubescent ; the flowers not 

 numerous, collected near the ends of the branches ; bracts oblong, ob- 

 tuse, pubescent, shorter than the calyx-tube. Flowers (from the point of 

 insertion) '5 or "6 in. long ; the calyx-tube merged in the pedicel, 

 clavate, pubescent outside, deflexed-villous inside. Calyx-lohes ovate- 

 rotund, undulate, subacute, imbricate, minutely tomentose on both 

 surfaces. Petals larger than the calyx-lobes, obovate, clawed, glabres- 

 cent. Stamens 12-16 ; the filaments united at the base into a tube open 

 at one side, much curved, deflexed. Ovary lanate, 2-celled. Style 

 sparsely pubescent, shorter than the stamens. Fruit ovoid, obtuse, slight- 

 ly compressed, vertically grooved, rough and covered with pale scurf ^ 

 pericarp bony, thick, 2-celled, the cells pubescent, 1 in. long and '6 

 in. broad (not ripe). Hassk. in Flora (1844), p. 685. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. Vol. I, pt. I, 354 t. V. 

 Perak; Scortechini 19SI. 



Only once collected in Perak. Thia species is very closely allied to P. glaher- 

 rimum, Hassk. and I greatly doubt whether the two should be kept separate. The 

 latter species is described at great length by Hasskarl in the volume of Flora for 

 1844, p. 533 ; but I have seen only one authentic specimen, and that consists only of 

 leaves. P. scahrum, on the other hand, is described by Hasskarl in nine words : but 

 of it there are in the Calcutta Herbarium several excellent authentic flowering 

 specimens. And with these Scortechini's specimens numbered 1981 agree absolutely. 



9. Parinarium Kdnstleri, King n. spec. A tree 50-80 feet high ; 

 young branches slender, cinereous, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong- 

 lanceolate, tapering from about the middle to each end, the apex 

 acuminate ; the base acute, eglandular ; both surfaces glabrous and 

 rather dull, the lower with wide slightly conspicuous reticulations and 

 minute papillaB ; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, curving upwards, only slightly 

 conspicuous on the lower surface ; length 3-25-4-5 in., breadth 1-15- 

 1-65 in., petiole •25--3 in., ; lobes of the calyx oblong, obtuse, tomentose 

 on both surfaces. Petals longer than the calyx-lobes, obtuse, glabrous. 

 Stamens about 20 or 30, glabrous; the filaments united by their bases, 

 longer than the petals. Style as long as the stamens, villous. Frvrit 

 oblong, ovoid, slightly compressed, obtuse, tapering slightly to the base, 

 1-25 in. long and about '9 in. broad, 2-ceried, densely covered with pale- 

 brown crustaceous scurf ; pericarp crustaceous, smooth inside. 



Perak ; King's Collector 3715, 3745, 6917. 



I have seen no specimens of this in flower. The description of the parts 

 of the flower above given has been taken from withered remains found persisting 

 at the base of some of the ripe fruits. In its leaves this resembles P. asjperulum^ 



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