142 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Leaves obovate, distinctly crenulate ; flowers sessile ... 1. P. sundiaca. 

 Leaves broadly elliptic, obscurely crenulate ; flowers on 

 long pedicels ... ... ... ... 2. P. andamanica. 



1. Planchonia sundiaca, Miq. A tree, 50 feet high; young 

 branches thicker than a goose-quill, the bark rough, pale-brown. Leaves 

 distinctly crenulate, obovate, much and gradually narrowed into the 

 petiole ; the apex with a short triangular apiculus ; both surfaces 

 brown (when dry), the reticulations faint: main-nerves 32 to 18 pairs, 

 spreading, depressed on the upper prominent and often pale in colour 

 on the lower surface ; length 3 to 65 in. ; breadth 1-75 to 3 in. ; petiole 

 •3 to '6 in. Racemes 2 in. long, few-flowered. Flowers white with 

 pink towards the centre, about 1'5 in. long, sessile. Calyx-tuhe '6 or 

 •7 in. long, campanulate, ribbed below : the lobes oblong, broad, subacute. 

 Petals narrowly oblong, acute, longer than the calyx and about as long 

 as the stamens. Fruit (unripe) broadly oblong-ovoid. 



Perak: Wray 2366; King*s Collector 7096. Distrib. — Sumatra, 

 Forhes 3254. 



2. Planchonia andamanica. King n. sp. A tree ; young branches 

 as thick as a goose-quill, pale-brown, smooth. Leaves broadly elliptic 

 or elliptic-rotund, slightly and abruptly tapered into the narrowly 

 winged petiole, the apex with a short triangular acumen, the edges 

 indistinctly crenulate; upper surface olivaceous-brown, the lower pale- 

 brown, not olivaceous ; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spreading, dark on 

 the upper and pale on the lower surface but not very bold on either, 

 length 5 to 7 in. ; breadth 3 to 4 in. ; petioles '6 to "8 in. Racemes 

 3 or 4 in. long ; the flowers about 2 in. long on stalks 1 to 2 in. long. 

 Calyx 'S or "9 in. long, campanulate, its lobes large, elliptic-rotund, 

 obtuse. Petals broadly elliptic, very obtuse. Fruit unknown. 



Andaman Islands: King's Collector. 



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