134 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
and 4 pairs of sub-erect nerves prominent below as are the transverse veins; length 
5 to 10 in., breadth 1:75 to 45 in.; petiole ‘75 to 125 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 pedieelled. — Culyz with 3 broadly ovate teeth, 
pubescent externally. Petals 5, oblong-ovate, pubescent externally, each with a triangular 
sericeous scale half as long as itself.  S/amial tube pubescent; anthers 5, ovate, 
reflexed. Female flower; sepals and petals as in the male; disc annular, with 5 conical 
staminodes. Ovary rugulose, pubescent, globular, 1-celled. — Stigmas 2, sub-bifid, 
spreading. Fruit globular, crowned by the stigmas, rugose, pubescent, “5 to 75 in. 
in diam., 1-seeded. 
Perak; King’s Collector, Wray; rather common. 
Prate 155. Ryparosa Wrayi, King. 1, branch with male flowers; 2, branch with ripe fruit: of natural size; 
3, male flower: enlarged ; 4, sepal of male flower; 5 petal of the same; 6, staminal column: much enlarged. 
PLATE 156. 
Ryrarosa ScomgrECcHINU, King, in Journ. Ав. 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. Zacemes in tufts from tubercles on the stem and large 
branches, the male 8 to 12 in. long. Calyx splitting into 3 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, 1'5 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 TR the above description 
ot them has been taken. 
Ртлтв 156. Ryparosa 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 d * sepal from 
‘the same ; 7, pistil: enlarged. 
| PLATE 157. 
` RxPAROSA Кохвтіғи, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1892, pt. 2, р. 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 
narrowed; upper surface shining; lower dull, pale, much reticulate, the midrib and 5 
to 7 pairs of nerves very аа length 5 to 8 ш., breadth 2 to 3 ш.; petiole 
1 to 15 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. 
2. aes flower ; ; caljz thin, pubescent outside, with 3 ovate broad teeth, Petals 5, oblong- 
