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loped by tlie calyx-tube, striate, minaiely pubescent, '6 in. long, '4 in. 

 wide at tbe apex. Seech narrowly ellipsoid, tapering mucli to the apex ; 

 tlie testa thick, wldte, iridescent, with elongate reticulations. Clarke in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IT, 428. 



Penang; Maingay 1513; Curtis 659. Pekak ; ScortecUni 819; 

 King's Collector 7330. 



2. Bdcklandia, Br. 



A tall glabrous tree. Leaves alternate, acuminate, entire, long- 

 petioled ; stipules solitary or in pairs, large, oblong, coriaceous, decidu- 

 ous. Inflorescence of 2-5 peduncled heads, at first enclosed between a 

 pair of stipules ; flowers adnate by their calyces, about 8 in a l>ead, 

 polygamous. Calyx-tuhe adnate to the ovary ; limb 5-lobed. Petals in 

 the ^ flower linear-spathulate, fleshy, variable in number ; in the $ fl. 

 rudimentary. Stamens 10-14 (in the $ none) ; filaments long. Ovary 

 half-inferior, 2-celled ; styles 2, separate, soon divaricate ; ovules in 

 each cell 6 in two rows. Capsule nearly superior, woody, subglobose ; 

 endocarp horny, showing a tendency to separate from the exocarp. 

 Seeds in each cell 6, oblong, trigonous ; the upper wingless, solid, with- 

 out any embryo, the lower one in each cell winged and fertile. 



BuCKLANDiA POPDLNEA, R. Brown in Wall. Cat. 7414. Leaves 

 broadly ovate sub-reniform or sub-orbicular, the apex acuminate or 

 tricuspidate, the edges entire ; the base broad and rounded, subcordate 

 or truncate, or narrowed and cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous ; the lower 

 sometimes pubescent on the nerves; main nerves 5-7, radiating palmately 

 from the base, the lower on each side slender, prominent on the lower 

 surface; length 2-5-6'5 in., breadth 1 "5-7 in. ; petiole -8-3 in., usually 

 glabrous but sometimes pubescent; stipules oblong, sub-falcate, obtuse, 

 •9-l'25 in. long, slightly pubescent at the base, breadth •25--45 in. 

 Grifl. in Asiat. Res. XIX, 95, with two plates ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. II, 429. B. populifoUa, H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 11, 86 ; 

 Kurz Forest Fl. Brit. Burma, I, 445. Liquidamhar tricuspis, Miq. FL 

 Ind. Bat. I, Ft. I, 1097 ; and Suppl. 346, with a figure. 



Perak ; Scortecliini; on Gunong.Inas, elevat. 5000 feet, Wray 

 4151 ; on Ulu Batang Padang, about 3900 feet, Wray 1535. Distrib. The 

 temperate Himalaya from Nepal to Bliotan, elevat. 5000-8000 ft. ; 

 Khasia Hills 4000-6000 feet ; Burma, Java,. Sumatra. 



None of the Perak specimens have flowers or frnit. Scortechini's have leaves 

 in no ■vv&j differing from those from the Himalaya and Khasia mountains, except 

 that the main nerves and petioles, even when old, are pubescent. Wray's speci- 

 mens, on the other hand, have smaller ovate leaves, rarely tri-cusiDidate and never 

 Sub-rotund or reniformj their petioles are sometimes slightly hairy, but their main 

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