24 XLYJ. ANACAKDIACEJL (J. D. Hooker.) [Buchanania. 



obovate or obovate-oblong, tip rounded or obtuse reticulate on both surfaces 

 narrowed into the petiole, panicles lax spreading, branches slender, flowers 

 not crowded pedicelled. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 636. B. palembanica, 

 Blume f Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1858, pt. i. 473. Hypericinea angustata, Wall. 

 Cat. 4830. B. subobovata, Griff. Notul. iv. 413. 



EASTERN PENINSTJLA; from Tenasserim to Malacca, and Penang. DISTRIB. 

 Sumatra, Borneo, Australia? 



A tree, quite glabrous throughout. Leaves 4-7 by l|-2 in., coriaceous, very 

 bro-wn when dry and rather shining; nerves 12-15 pairs slender, arched; petiole 

 1 ij in., gradually dilated upwards. Panicles usually longer than the leaves, very 

 many-flowered. Flowers | in. diam. (4-5-merous, white, disagreeably-scented, 

 Griffith}. Sepals orbicular. Petals elliptic, obtuse. Filaments subulate, white. Drupe 

 I in. diam., orbicular, compressed with a sharp edge. Blume's B. arborescens, and 

 perhaps B. longifolia, are hardly distinct from this, as is Miquel's petiolaris and 

 bancana. I should refer hither also the glabrous panicled Australian plant placed 

 under angustifolia, Koxb., in the Flora Australiensis. 



VAE. intermedia, leaves obovate-spathulate membranous. B. intermedia, Wight 

 Ic. t. 81. Naggarie hills, Madras. 



5. B. acuminata, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1858, i. 472; glabrous 

 throughout, leaves long- or short-petioled obovate or 'oblanceolate abruptly 

 acuminate, panicles spreading exceeding the leaves long-peduncled very slender 

 lax-flowered, flowers pedicelled. B. sessilifolia, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 184. 

 Hypericinea lucida, Wall. Cat. 4827. Terebinthacea, Wall Cat. 8505. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Lobb PENANG, Porter ; MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. 

 DISTKIB. Sumatra. 



A small tree. Leaves 4-7 by 2-2| in., thinly coriaceous, tips very acute, base 

 much narrowed, reticulate on both surfaces, quite sessile in Penang specimens, with 

 elender petioles sometimes 1| in. in Malacca and Tenasserim ones, bright brown 

 when dry ; nerves about 1 5 pairs, slender. Panicles chiefly axillary, branches divari- 

 cating. Flowers -^ in. diam. Sepals small, orbicular. Petals oblong. Filaments 

 compressed. Drupe as in B. lucida. I think there is no doubt of Blume's B. scssili- 

 fqlia being a sessile-leaved form of this, which is far more frequently a petioled plant, 

 and therefore better fitted to TurczaninoiFs name than to Blume's, though against the 

 laws of priority. 



6. B. lanceolata, Wt. Ic. t. 237 ; III. i. 185 ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate 

 obtusely acuminate, petiole stout, 'panicles short pubescent, flowers crowded 

 subsessile. Buchanania ? acuminata, Wall. Cat. 981. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; near Quilon, Wight. 



A tree. Leaves 4-5 by l|-lf in., reticulate and shining on both surfaces, margin 

 waved, base acute but not contracted into the petiole; nerves 16-20 pairs, slender 

 arched ; petiole f- in., stout. Panicles shorter than the leaves, numerous, stout, 

 axillary and terminal. Flowers f in. diam., crowded on the short stout lateral 

 branches. Sepals rounded. Petals broadly oblong. Filaments subulate. Fruit 

 unknown. "Wallich's B. 1 acuminata, from Tavoy (Cat. 981), is very similar to this; 

 it has fruit only, and the nervation is a little different. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



B. LANCIFOLIA, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 386 ; ' a large tree, leaves lanceolate obtuse 

 pointed lucid entire, panicles terminal.' Chittagong. 



B. ? ACUMINATA, Wall Cat. 981. See at end of 6. lanceolata. Tavoy, Gomez, in 

 fruit only. 



B. LAXIFLORA, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, pt. 2, 304 ; ' leaves 6-7 in. 

 ovate-oblong coriaceous finely tomentose glabrescent above, petiole ^ in. stout, panicle 

 terminal lax diffuse much branched hoary or yellowish pubescent, flowers minute, 



