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and 4 pairs of sub-erect nerves prominent below ss are the transverse veins; length 
5 to 10 in., breadth 1:75 to 4°5 in.; petiole ‘75 to 1°25 in., slightly winged at the 
apex. Racemes solitary or in pairs, axillary or from below the leaves, 6 to 9 in. 
long, longer iu fruit. Male flowers pedicelled. Culyv with З broadly ovate teeth, 
pubescent externally. Petals 5, oblong-ovate, pubescent externally, each with a triangular 
sericeous scale half as long as itself. Svaminal tube pubescent; anthers. 5, ovate, 
reflexed. Female flower; вера and petals as in the male; dise annular, with 5 conical 
staminodes. Ovary rugulose, pubescent, globular, l-celled. — Stigmas 9, sub-bifid,. 
spreading. Fruit globular, crowned by tbe stigmas, rugose, pubescent, “5 to “75 in. 
in diam., l-seeded. 
Perak; King's Collector, Wray; rather common. 
Prate 155. Ryparosa Wrayi, King. 1, branch with male flowers; 2, branch with ripé fruit: of natural size; 
3, male flower: enlarged ; 4, sepal of male flowe-; 5 petal of the same; 6, staminal column: much enlarged. 
PLATE 150. 
Ryparosa Scortecuinu, King, in Journ. Аз. Soc. Bengal, for 1892, pt. 2, p. 126. 
A slender tree; the branchlets and inflorescence rusty, otherwise glabrous, Leaves 
large, thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, shortly and abruptly acumi- 
nate, gradually narrowed from the middle to the base; both surfaces glabrous, the 
upper shining, the lower dull, pale; the midrib and 5 to 7 pairs of nerves very 
prominent; length 10 to 15 in., breadth 3 to 6 in.; petiole 1:5 to 2'5, thickened 
and bent at the apex. Racemes in tufts from tubercles on the stem and large 
branches, the male 8 to 12 in. long. Calyx splitting into З ovate segments, tomentose. 
Petals 4, ovate, acute; the gland large, rotund, sericeous. Female racemes shorter; sepals 
and petals as in the male; ovary tomentose, obscurely 4-angled; stigmas 2, discoid. 
Fruit angled when young: when ripe transversely oblong, the apex retuse, l:5 in., 
by 1 in., velvetty rusty-tomentose with green or white dots; seeds two, plano-convex. 
Perak: Scortechini, Kunstler, Wray; common. 
The male flowers have been found only by Scortechini, from whose field notes the above description 
of them has been taken. 
Ррате 156. Јуратоза Scortechinii, King. 1, branch with advanced female flowers; 2, raceme of young female 
flowers; 3, raceme with young fruits; 4, ripe seeds: of natural size; 5, petal from female flower; 6, sepal from 
the same ; 7, pistil: enlarged. 
PLATE 157. 
Ryparosa Кохәтіғк, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1892, pt. 2, p. 127. 
A tree 50 to 60 feet high, the branchlets minutely rusty puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, 
ovate-oblong, obovate-oblong to oblong, shortly: and abruptly acuminate, the base 
narrowel; upper surface shining; lower dull, pale, much reticulate, the midrib and 5 
to 7 pairs of nerves very prominent; length 5 to 8 in., breadth 2 to 3 in.; petiole 
I to 1-5 in, swollen and bent towards the apex. Racemes axillary, solitary, rarely 2 or 
3 from an axil, the male 6 to 8 in. long, the female half as long, flowers pedicelled. 
Male flower; calyx thin, pubescent outside, with 3 ovate broad teeth. Petals 5, oblong- 
