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tjrandis, because, although WalHch referred the plant to a fanlily with which it has 

 no affinity, he gave it the earliest specific name " grandis." 



4. Anisophyllea Gripfithii, 01i\rer ia Trans. Linn. Soc. XXIII, 

 460. t. 48. A tree 40-50 feet high, with drooping brandies ; young 

 branches slender, glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, greenish-yellow 

 when dry, lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or broadly elliptic-lanceolate, the 

 apex bluntly acuminate, tbe base cuneate, the edges entire and slightly 

 revolute when dry ; both surfaces glabrous and very minutely dotted, 

 the upper shining, the lower rather dull ; length 2-5-3-5 in., breadth 

 1*2-2 in., petiole •15-2 in. ; a basal nerve springing from the apex of the 

 petiole on each side and running close to the edge ; main nerves pinnate, 

 about 6 pairs, oblique, curving but slightly. Spikes solitary or in pairs, 

 axillary or extra-axillary, slender, tawny-puberulous, '75-1 in. long, 

 (l'5-2'75 in., Jide Oliver), laxly-flowered. Male flowers "05 in. in diam., 

 sessile; calyx-Umh with 4 triangular coriaceous lobes; petals 4, shorter 

 than the calyx-lobes, thick, broadly-oblong, subquadrate, entire or 

 faintly emarginate ; stamens 8, the 4 opposite to the petals attached 

 to the latter, filaments dilated, anthers broadly-elliptic; styles 4, free, 

 subulate, ovary imperfect. Female floivers like the males, but the 

 calyx-tahe elongated and containing the 4-celled ovary. Fruit globular- 

 ellipsoid, obtuse at each end, glabrous, smooth, 1-75 in. long and 1'35 

 in. in diam. Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 442. 



Malacca; Griffi^th 2439. Penang; Gurtis 148 and 1511. Perak ; 

 King's Collector 7600. 



This differs from all other Malayan species in the pinnate venation of its leaves. 

 There are indeed two nerves which spring along with the midrib from the apex of 

 the petiole and run round the edges, but the midrib has pinnate branches. 



5. Anisophyllea Scortechinii, King n. spec. A tree 25-30 feet 

 high ; young branches slender, rusty-tomentose. Leaves falcately 

 lanceolate-rhomboidal, the apex much acuminate, the base obliquely 

 acute ; both surfaces shining, the upper quite glabrous, the lower 

 glabrous except for a few thin scattered brown apically-directed 

 adpressed hairs on the intercostal spaces ; the nerves (and particularly 

 the middle one) more pubescent, especially towards the base; main 

 nerves 3, 4 (from the splitting of the middle one) or rarely 5, springing 

 from the apex of the petiole, the middle one straight, the two lateral 

 curved ; all prominent on the lower and deeply depressed on the upper 

 surface; connecting veins sub-horizontal, prominent; length 2*5-3 in., 

 breadth '6-1 '25 in., petiole '15 in. Panicles extra-axillary, with only 

 1 or 2 branches, '5-1 in. long, rusty-pubescent. Male flowers '1 in. in 

 diam., on pedicels as long as themselves, minutely bracteolate at the base ; 

 calyx-lobes 4 or 5, broadly ovate-acute, not concave, i-eflexcd ; petals 



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