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4 T Kunstleri, King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol 58, pt if, 373. A tree, 25 to 30 

 feet hi^h;' glabrous, except the peduncle and unripe carpels. Leaves oblong-lanceolate 





acuminate at base and apex, thinly coriaceous, both surfaces shining ; nerves 10 to 14 

 pairs- length of blade 6 to 9 in., breadth 175 to 2 5 in.; petiole -5 to 1*25 in., slender; 

 the base thickened. Flowers ovoid, terminal, solitary, scarcely expanding, -85 in. Ion 

 peduncles erect, pubescent, annulate, J in. long. Sepals 3 and petals 6, scarcely exceeding 

 the stamens, broadly elliptic, fleshy, glabrous, waxy white. Anthers sessile, more than 

 •5 in long ' Pistils 6 to 8, linear, pubescent. Ripe fruit ovoid, pointed, 1*25 in. long 

 and -75 in! in dtam. ; individual carpels '75 to I in. long, with short, stout, terminal 



beaks.— Magnolia Kunstleri, King MSS. 



Perak, in dense forest at elevations of from 3,500 to 4,000 feet. 



Plate 4U3. Talauma Kunstleri, King.—% flowering branch; 7, flower-bud; 



8. young and 9, mature fruit,— all of natural size. 



Hook. fd. 8f Thorns. FL Ind. 74. A tall tree ; young branches 



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deciduously tawny-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate to lanceolate, shortly 

 and bluntly acuminate, much narrowed at the base, glabrous, shining and (when dry) 



ily reti 



nerves about 10 pairs; length 8 to 18 in., breadth 275 to 6 



in. 



• petiole 1-25 to 2 in. Floivers solitary, terminal, 2 to 25 in. long, on stout, annulate 

 peduncles less than 1 in. long. Spathoid bract densely adpressed-fuscous-tomentose. 

 Sepals 3- sub-orbicular, rough externally. Petals 9, narrower than the sepals, concave, 

 connivent, the outer row reflexed after the fall of the sepals. Fruit xxnknown.-Hook. 



Fi. Br. Ind. i, 40. 



Khasia Hills at elevations of about 4,000 feet. 



Plate 40. Talauma Rabaniana, Hook. fit. 8f Thorns.— \, branch with fully-blown 



flower the sepals of which have fallen off; 2, flower-bud showing spathoid bract 



3, flower with sepals attached; 4, flower artificially opened up; 5 and 6, carpels and 

 stamens,— all of natural she. 



6. T. Hodgsoni, Hook, fil Sf Thorns. FL Ind. 74. A considerable tree; all parts 



I ibrous except" the puberulous young carpels ; young branches very stout, lenticellate 



the youngest glaucescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, 

 subacute or obtuse, much narrowed toward the base; both surfaces shining; the 

 reticulations distinct (when dry); nerves 15 to 20 pairs; length 8 to 20 in., breadth 3 

 to 6 in.; petiole 1*5 to 2 5 in.,, slender, with a thickened base. Flowers solitary, 

 terminal, ovoid, scarcely expanding, about 3 in. long; peduncle thick with 2 or 3 

 rings, glabrous, -75 to 1 in. long. Sepals 3, ovate, obtuse, fleshy. Petals 6, like the 

 sepals, the inner smaller. Ovaries forming a sub-globose cone much exceeding the 

 stamens. Fruit ovoid, 4 to 6 in. long by about 3 in. in diam. ; individual carpels 

 numerous, woody when ripe, verrucose, narrowly and shortly beaked, nearly 1*5 in. 

 long and (when dehisced) -6 in. broad; the rachis woody, deeply pitted.— Hook. fil. 

 FL Br. Ind. i, 74 ; Hook, fil and Cathc. III. Him. Plants, t. 6 ; Gamble Ind. Timb. 



? Miehelia 



5.-Manglietia insignis, Wall. Cat. 933 (addition at p. 236), not of Blutne. 

 macrophyUa, Don Prod. Fl. Nepal 2'26. 



Sikkim; Kl.asia and Assam Hills; at elevations of 1,400 to 5,000 feet, very common 



Nepal, — Waflich ? Vern. " Boramthuri" 



