Parinarium.] LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 811 



and rachis densely clothed with soft yellowish tomentum ; bracts oblong, obtuse. 

 Flowers sessile, in. long. Calyx-tube clavate, gibbous, clothed with silky hairs 

 outside, and with long deflexed hairs inside ; lobes broadly ovate, obtuse. Petals 

 obovate, sessile, nearly glabrous. Stamens 12-15, in. long, circinnately incurved, 

 united at the base into a unilateral ring which is deficient opposite the single carpel. 

 Ovary densely woolly, imperfectly 2-celled; style very long and slender, stigma 

 minute. Drupe the size of a small apple, spherical, very hard ; outer surface rough 

 and rust-coloured ; endocarp | in. thick, bony ; cavity smooth with a furrow down one 

 side and a few very stout sparingly branched raised veins. Seed large, testa thin ; 

 embryo with the cotyledons consolidated into a ruminated mass. 



** Leaves obscurely ^-glandular at the base. 



7. P. indicum, Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 109 ; Flor. Sylvat. t, 191 ; 

 leaves elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous, nerves 8-10 pair, racemes tomentose. En- 

 tosiphon, Bedd. in Mad. Joum. Lift. Ser. 3. i. 44. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; Wynad, in moist woods, alt. 2-3000 ft., Beddome. 



A middling sized tree. Leaves 8-9 by 3 in., slightly undulate ; nerves strong 

 beneath, much arched ; petiole very short. Racemes axillary and terminal, simple, 

 stout, rarely divided at the base. Flowers shortly pedicelled, \-\ in. long. Calyx- 

 tube campanulate ; lobes ovate, acute. Petals ovate, sessile, shorter than the calyx- 

 lobes. Stamens 12-15, unilateral, twice as long as the calyx -lobes. Ovary hairy, 

 2-celled. 



8. P. travancoricum, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 189 ; leaves lanceolate 

 glabrous, nerves 12-16 pair, racemes silky. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, near Courtallum, alt. 2000 ft., Beddome. 



A small graceful tree, young parts grey, silky ; branchlets very slender. Leaves 

 4-5 by 1-1 in., obtusely acuminate; margins waved; nerves beneath silky when 

 young, finally glabrous ; petiole very short. Racemes 1-2 in., few-flowered, simple 

 or branched at the base, drooping, silky. Flowers ^ in. long. Calyx-tube campanu- 

 late ; lobes ovate, acute. Petals broadly ovate, obtuse, equalling or exceeding the 

 calyx -lobes. Stamens 10-12, unilateral, filaments three times as long as the calyx- 

 lobes. Ovary hairy, 2-celled. 



DOUBTFUL, EXCLUDED AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



P. WALLICHIANUM, Wall. Cat. 7520 ; consists of branches with leaves only 

 of a most conspicuous j plant from Sincapore, which I suspect is a Dipterocarpus. 

 Branchlets very stout and leaves beneath clothed most densely with appressed 

 snow-white almost silvery tomentum ; leaves 8-14 by 3-6 in., oblong, abruptly 

 acuminate, rounded at the base, quite entire ; nerves 30-35 pair, spreading ; 

 upper surface shining ; petiole very short and stout ; stipules sheathing, 1 in. long,, 

 membranous. Sincapore. A lofty tree ( Wallich). 



P. HELFERI, Hook. f. ; branchlets slender clothed with soft rusty tomentum. 

 leaves elliptic-oblong acuminate membranous white and downy beneath, nerves- 

 about 12 pair, flowers minute in small softly tomentose panicles, calyx-tube shortly 

 campanulate, stamens 6-7. P. sumatranum, Kurz, For. Flor. Brit. Burm. i. 433, not 

 ofBenth.t 



TENASSERIM, Heifer. 



Leaves 3-4 in., base rounded or acute ; petiole and midrib beneath when young 

 clothed with rusty soft wool ; whole undersurface clothed with locse snow-white 

 tomentum when young, hoary when old ; nerves spreading, slender. Panicle 1 in. 

 long. Flowers in., very shortly pedicelled. Calyx-lobes short, rounded. 

 Petals very small, ovate. Stamens equalling the calyx-lobes. I have seen but one 

 specimen. 



P. ? A species, apparently allied to P. Helferi, collected by Griffith on hills- 



