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2. Pygeum grandiflorum, King n. spec. A tree 50-70 feet high ; 

 all parts, except the inflorescence, glabrous ; young branches rather 

 stout. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, sometimes 

 slightly obovate, with an abrupt short blunt point ; the base cuneate, 

 eglandular ; upper surface shining, smooth, the lower less shining and 

 minutely pustulate ; main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, spreading but curving 

 upwards, prominent on the lower surface ; length 5-8 in., breadth 

 2*75-3*5 in., petiole '75 in. Panicles solitary, axillary, nearly as long as 

 the leaves, with a few lax corymbose branches, almost glabrous below, 

 rusty- tomentose towards the apex ; bracts broadly ovate, concave, 

 blunt, puberulous. Flowers '5 in. across, on pedicels '15 in. long; 

 bracteoles near the apex of the pedicels 1 or 2, minute. Calyx-tuhe 

 widely campanulate, short, with 5 broad blunt subreniform lobes 

 tomentose outside. Petals 5, much larger than the calyx-teeth ('2 in. 

 long), subrotund to broadly oblong, blunt, reflexed. Stamens very 

 numerous, glabrous. Pistil slightly longer than the staraens, the ovary 

 pubescent, style puberulous ; stigma small, capitate. Fruit unknown. 



Perak ; King's Collector 7425. 



A very distinct species with large glabrous leaves, and larger flowers than any 

 here described. 



3. Pygeum intermedium, King n. spec. A tree 30-40 feet high; young 

 branches dark-coloured, lenticellate, subglabi-ous. Leaves coriaceous, 

 broadly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, the apex acute or shortly acuminate, 

 the base rounded or slightly cuneate ; upper surface minutely punc- 

 tulate, not shining when dry, glabrous except the broad, depressed, 

 pubescent midrib ; lower surface puberulous, pubescent on the nerves 

 and midrib ; main-nerves 7 pairs, oblique, curved, prominent beneath ; 

 length 4-5 in., breadth about 2 in., petiole '35 in. Racemes about '5 

 in. lono-, from the axils of fallen leaves, solitary or several together, 

 densely tawny-tomentose ; bracts shorter than the very short pedicels, 

 ovate-obtuse, concave. Flowers less than -15 in. long. Calyx-tuhe wide- 

 ly infundibuliform, with 6 oblong blunt hairy teeth. Petals none. 

 Stamens about 20, glabrous, exserted. Pistils as long as the stamens, 

 glabrous ; stigma capitate. Fruit subglobular, compressed, crowned 

 by the style, glabrous, *3 in. long and about '2 in. thick. 



Malacca ; Maingay 626. Perak ; King's Collector 3791. 



4. Pygeum Maingayi, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 319. A tree; 

 young branches slender, with dark-coloured glabrous bark. Leaves 

 coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, with slightly cuneate rather 

 broad bases and often with 2 small glands a little above the petiole ; the 

 upper surface glabrous, smooth but not shining (when dry) ; the lower 

 dark-brown in colour and rugulose, deciduously pubescent : main-nerves 



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