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5. Alanqium nobile, Harms. A tree 60 to 100 feet high : young 

 branches and petioles velvety rusty-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, 

 elliptic to ovate-elliptic, rarely slightly obovate, entire, the base slightly 

 cordate rarely sub-acute, the apex blunt or very shortly and bluntly 

 acuminate ; upper surface almost glabrous, the midrib and nerves min- 

 utely tomentose : lower surface densely and minutely tomentose or 

 pubescent ; main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs, spreading, slightly curved, very 

 bold on the lower surface when dry, the secondary nerves transverse 

 and bold ; length 4o to 12 in. ; breadth 3 to 6*5 in. ; petiole '8 to 1'75 

 in. Cymes on very short peduncles, 4- to 8-flowered, shorter or slightly 

 longer than the petioles. Flowers h or '6 in. long and 'J in. in diam. ; 

 their pedicels very short and thick. Calyx narrowly campanulate ; 

 deeply 6-grooved ; the mouth with 6 deep lanceolate spreading teeth. 

 Petals thick, narrowly oblong, sub-acute, tomentose, especially outside, 

 sub-glabrous inside. Stamens 6, shorter than the petals, filaments 

 short villous inside ; anthers linear. Style cylindric, adpressed villous ; 

 stigmas linear. Disc glabrous, deeply 6-lobed. Fruit compressed, 

 ridged, ellipsoid in outline, slightly contracted at both ends, tomentose, 

 about 1 in. long and '65 in. broad. Marlea nohilisy Clarke in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. II, 743. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3384, 3385. Maingay (K.D.); 705, 707. 

 Perak: King's Collector 6047, 6116, 10892. Singapore: Maingay; 

 Ridley 5077. 



Beccari collected in Borneo specimens (Herb. Becc. P.B. 3611) of a species 

 closely allied to this, the flowers of which are however longer ('85 in.) with the 

 Cftlyx-tube much less prominently grooved. 



3. Nyssa, Linn. 



Trees (or shrubs), innovations silky. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 entire. Flowers capitate, on axillary peduncles, polygamo-dioecious, 1 

 or few females and many males in a head, each 3-4-bracteolate, or the 

 males irregularly coalescing. Male : calyx short, cup-shaped, 5-7- 

 toothed ; petals 5-7, imbricate, hairy; stamens usually 10 (in the 

 Indian species) around a large circular disc; rudiment of the ovary 

 or small. Female: calyx-tube campanulate; limb 5-toothed ; petals 

 or minute; rudimentary stamens none; ovary 1-celled ; style cylin- 

 dric, simple or shortly 2-fid ; ovule solitary, pendulous. Berry oblong 

 or ovoid. Albumen copious ; cotyledons flat, leafy, nearly as broad as 

 the seeds. — Distrid. Species 5-6, in N. America, and from Sikkim to Java. 



Nyssa sessiliflora. Hook. fil. in Gen. Plantar. I, 952. A tree. 

 Leaves sub-coriaceous, oblanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate tapering to 

 each end, length 4 to 8 in. ; breadth 1*5 to 2 5 in. ; petiole '6 to 'S in. ; 

 both surfaces minutely punctate ; main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, spreading. 



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