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spreading triangular teeth. Petals linear, subacute, longer than the 

 stamens and much longer than the calyx, slightly pubescent ; anthers 

 elongate, filaments slightly pubescent. Fruit ovoid, tapering to each 

 end, the apex crowned by the persistent calyx-teeth and base of the 

 style, puberulous, black when dry, "4 in. long and "25 in. in diam. ; the 

 pedicel "15 in. long, puberulous. Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. p. 196 ; DC. 

 Prodr. IV, 276 ; Blurae Mus. Bot. I, 260 ; H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. II, 77 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 72i ; Suppl. I, 335. Clarke in 

 Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 409. Itea fragrans, Wall. Cat. 8472, -partly. 



Var. 1. typica ; leaves entire. 



Malacca ; Griffith 2510 (Kew Distrib.) ; Maingay 632. Perak ; 

 Wray 508; King's Oollector 3802. Penang ; Curtis 1081. Andaman 

 Islands ; King's Collectors, Prain. 



Var. 2. Wallichii, Clarke in Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 409 ; leaves 

 remotely serrate. P. Wallichii, Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. p. 196 ; Wall Cat. 

 8471 ; H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. II, 77 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, 

 I, 444. 



Andaman Islands. Distrib. Khasia Hills, Assam. 



As I have noted under P. mutahilis, Bl., the only tangible distinction between 

 that plant and this is that the former has frait truncate at the base and with 4 

 bold vertical grooves, while this has stnooth frait. Many of the specimens above- 

 quoted as belonging to this are not in fruit, and I accept them as P. integrifolia in 

 deference to the authority of the Flora of British India. 



7. PoLYOSMA L^TE-viRENS, Griff. MSS. in Herb. Kew. A tree 

 20-50 feet high ; young branches yellowish-tomentose. Leaves drying 

 of a yellowish-green, coriaceous, oblanceolate or narrowly-elliptic, 

 shortly acuminate, much narrowed to the base ; the edges entire, slightly 

 revolute when dry ; upper surface glabrous, shining, the midrib minutely 

 tomentose, lower surface yellowish-tomentose ; main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, 

 spreading, interarching, prominent on the lower surface only ; length 

 3'25-5"5 in., breadth •8-225 in., petiole "35-'5 in. Raceme solitary, 

 terminal, tomentose, rather longer than the leaves. Floivers '3 in. long, 

 on pedicels '1 in. long. Calyx-^uhe slightly longer than the three narrowly 

 oblong adpressed bracteoles, its mouth with 4 broad triangular obtuse 

 teeth, yellowish-tomentose. Petals much longer than the calyx and 

 slightly longer than the stamens, linear, tapering to the obtuse apex, 

 villous in front, tomentose behind. Filaments nearly as long as the 

 anthers, villous in front. Fruit ovoid or globular-ovoid, crowned by the 

 calyx-teeth, deciduously adpressed-sericeous and lepidote, "25 in. long, 

 the pedicel •l-*2 in. P. mutahilis, Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 469 (not of Blume). 



Malacca; Griffith 2508, 2509; Maingay 633. Perak ; King's 

 Collector 8775. Penang ; Curtis 377, 758. 



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