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and obscurely serrulate, very much narrowed to the base; upper surface smooth and shining; 
lower dull, rough from the numerous short transverse secondary nerves and 14 to 16 
pairs of prominent ascending main nerves; the midrib bold and subragose; the reticulations 
minute and distinct; length of blade 6 to 10 iu., breadth 2:25 to 3 in., petiole ‘25 to '5 
in. Stipules lanceolate, "95 in. long. Flowers in axillary, often crowded, fascicles or 
very short racemes of З to 8, bracteolate, the pedicels shorter than the leaf-petioles. Sepals 
ovate, obtuse, imbricate, shorter than the petals, strongly nerved, the edges ciliate. 
Petals erect, the tips not reflexed, ovate-acute, rigid, the edges ciliate. Stamens with 
short flat filaments, each inserted into the apex of a lobe of the deeply 5-lobed disc. 
Anthers broad, adpressed to the ovary, each with 2 linear anterior appendages from 
the cells and one large dorsally-attached halbert-shaped membranous posterior appendage 
from the connective, the latter appendages conniving into a cone round the upper 
part of the ovary. Ovary sessile, ovoid-conic; the style exserted, cylindric. Capsules 
ovoid, glabrous, shining, smooth, “5 in. long, dehiscing into three narrow compressed 
pointed valves; seeds one in each valve, ovoid, white, shining. 
Singapore; Wallich, King's Collector. Perak; Scortechini, King's Collector; at low 
elevations. 
There are two kinds of flowers in this plant—(a) those with pedicels as long as the flower; (P) those 
with pedicels shorter than the flower. In tne former the anthers are perfect, and the ovaries produee 
seed. ‘The flowers are thus truly hermaphrodite. In the latter the anthers have no pollen, but the 
ovaries are fruitful: they are virtually unisexual. The species is allied to A.  Wulliehiana, but differs 
from that species in its much more acuminate rougher leaves and also in its capsules and seeds. 
Prate 141. <Alsodeia Kunstleriana, King. 1, branch with short-stalked flowers; 2, fascicles of long-stalked flowers ; 
3, ripe capsules: of natural size; 4, long-stalked flower; 5, the same dissected; 6, stamens of the same; 7, back view 
of a single anther; 8, front view of the same; 9, section of ovary of the same: 10, short-stalked flowers; 11, anthers 
of short-stalked flower: all enlarged. : 
PLATE 1424. 
Atsoveta Hooxertana, King in Journ. Ав. Soc. Bengal, for 1889, рё 9, p, 402. 
A small glabrous tree, the branchlets lenticellate. Leaves membranous, shining, shortly 
petiolate, elongate-oblanceolate or lanceolate, apex shortly and rather bluntly acuminate, 
entire or remotely serrulate, gradually narrowed below the middle to the base; nerves 
7 to 9 pairs, arching, slightly prominent; length 4 to 8 in., breadth 1:25 to 2 in., ee 
15 to :25 іп; stipules ovate, only ‘1 in.; long. Васетез axillary, and on the older 
branches from the axils of fallen leaves, numerous, rather dense when young, afterwards 
sparse and open, from ‘75 to 15 in. long, bracteoles linear, deciduous, pedicels as long 
as or longer than the flowers. Sepals ovate, equal, pubescent or glabrous. Petuls lanceo- 
late with linear blunt apex, longer than the sepals, glabrous or pubescent along the 
midrib externally. Stamens glabrous, the filaments as long as the rather deep disc. Anthers 
broadly ovate, the base cordate, almost sub-reniform, the cells each with an apical point 
and with a broad membranous ovate acute dorsal appendage wider than the anther. 
Ovary sessile, pubescent; the style cylindric, glabrous; the stigma cup-shaped, truncate. 
Capsule globular, obtusely angled, glabrous, reticulate, '8 in. long; the valves unequal, 
obtuse, compressed, sub-faleate: seeds sub-globose, pale, minutely mottled at the apex, 
the base with a papillate pitted caruncle. 
Perak; at low elevations, Scortechini, Wray, King’s Collector. 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp. Carc, Vor. V. 
