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Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Ill, 74; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. i. CXCIII ; Dalz. 

 and Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 96 ; Biandis For. Flora 219 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Bi-. Ind. 



II, 439. Trimen Flora Ceylon I, 155. C. ceylanica, C. corymhosa, and 

 C. sinensis, Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. I, 371. 0. ceylanica, Arn. Wight 



III. 211 t. 90. C. timorensis, Blurae Mus. Bot. Lu,?d. Bat. I, 128 ? C. 

 octopetala, Muell. Fl. Aust. Trop. Occ. ex Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Ill, 

 74. C. synimetria, Blume Mu.s. 1. c. 130. 



Perak ; very common. Singapore, and probably also in several of 

 the other provinces. Distrib. Malayan Archipelago, China, Australia, 

 British India. 



DeCandolle's G. vitegerrima, published in 1828, is in my opinion mei'ely the en- 

 tire-leaved form of tins very common Indian tree, the leaves of which are sometimes 

 serrulate and sometimes entire. It is a tree which Roxburgh could not possibl\' have 

 overlooked. He published and figured the serrulate-leaved form of it as C lucida 

 in his Coromandel Plants (1819), having previously given the name in his Hortns 

 Bengalensis, p. 92. In the belief that 0. lucida is the oldest name for this plant, 

 I have followed Kurz in restoring it. DeCandolle's name C. integerrhna is however 

 adopted by Mr. Bentham, and also by Mr. Henslow who described the Bhizoipliorex 

 in Hooker's Flora of British India. 



2. Carallia ScORTECHiNir, King n. spec. A shrub or small tree; 

 young branches slender, opposite, smooth, dark-coloured when dry. 

 Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, shortly caudate-acuminate, the 

 base slightly cuneate ; the edges entire, slightly revolute when dry ; 

 both surfaces shining, the lower with sparse black dots and with 

 the numerous spreading main nerves slightly prominent; length 2-2'75 

 in., breadth 1-1-25 in., petiole •2-25 in. Stipules lanceolate, '25 in. long, 

 caducous. Cymes axillaiy, on pedicels slightly longer than the petioles, 

 trichotomous, spreading, not crowded. Flowers 3-5, rather more than 

 •1 in. long and about the same in width at the mouth, on pedicels nearly 

 •1 in. long and bracteolate at the base. Calyx-tuhe campanulate, with 5 

 triangular lobes half as long as itself, their apices slightly inflexed. 

 Petals 5, thin, reniform, erose-crenate, clawed, each embracing a stamen. 

 Stamens 10, inserted on the 10-toothed epigynous disc, unequal. Ovary 

 adnate to the calyx-tube, 5-celied, with 2 axile ovules in each cell. 

 Style stout, as long as the calyx -lobes, stigma 5-lobed. Fruit unknown. 



Perak ; ScortecMni 2023 ; King's Collector 1013. Singapore ; Ridley 

 5593. 



The specimens collected by Scortechini are described by him as taken from a 

 shrub 5 or 6 feet high, while those collected by Mr. Kunstler are noted as from a 

 tree 30-40 feet in height. They resemble each other exactly both in flowers and 

 leaves, and I have no doubt whatever that the two belong to the same species. I 

 give this species a name with considerable hesitation ; for it does not differ much 

 from Roxburgh's description of C. lancasfolia. It also closely resembles C. eicspidata, 

 Blume, in leaves, but has larger flowers. 



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