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lanceolate, pubescent externally, each with a large sericeous gland at its base; staminal 
tube glabrous, the anthers ovate-oblong. Female flower ; sepals and petals as in the 
male, annular disc at base of ovary small, staminodes none; ovary ovoid, angled, 
tomentose, 1-сеПей, with 4 parietal bi-ovulate placentas; stigmas obovate, radiating. 
Fruit globular, yellowish, velvetty, ‘about 1:5 in. diam.; seeds 5 or 6, oblong, com- 
pressed, striate, about "75 in. long. 
Perak, at elevations up to 800 feet, common. 
A tree 40 to 100 feet in height, with shorter and ;in proportion) broader leaves 
than R. fasciculata, 4 stigmas, and more globular pedicellate fruit. 
Prare 167. Ryparosa Kunstleri, King. 1, branch with female flowers and young fruit; 2, r'pe fruit (of small 
size); 3, section of the same: of natural size; 4, male flower ; 5, female flower: enlarged ; 6, sepal of male flower ; 
7, petal ofthe same; 8, staminal column; 9, pistil: much enlarged. 
PLATE 158, 
RyPAROSA FASCICULATA, King in Journ. Аз. Soc. Bengal, for 1892, pt. 2, p. 127. 
A glabrous tree 30 to 60 feet high. Young branches lenticellate, Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, narrowly oblong, acuminate, the base narrowed, shining above, pale 
beneath; midrib, 5 to 7 pairs of lateral nerves, and the bold sub-horizontal transverse 
nerves and reticulations very distinct especially beneath; length 9 to 15 in, breadth 
2:25 to 3:75 in.; petiole 1 to 15 in., grooved, thickened in its upper fourth. Racemes 
in fascicles of 4 to 7 from tubercles on the large branches and stem. Calyx with 3 
broadly ovate teeth. Petals rotund, much imbrieste and inflexed, Female flower with 
annular dise bearing 5 conical staminodes, the petals with hairy scales at their bases; 
stigmas 3, large, sub-reniform. Fruit rusty-tomentose, pyriform, the apex mamillate 
and crowned for some time by the remains of the stigmas, about 6-seeded, 15 to 2 
in. long. 
Perak, at elevations up to 800 feet; common. 
Prate 158. Ryparosa fasciculata, King. 1, leaf-twig; 2, fascicles of male flowers from a stem-tubercle ; 3, fascicles 
of female flowers; 4, ripe fruits; 5, section of ripe fruit: of natural size; 6, male flower (from below); 7, male 
flower from above; 8, petal; 9, staminal column; 10, female flower from the side: enlarged. 
PLATE 159. 
TRIGONIASTRUM HYPOLEUCUM, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. I, 895. 
Nat. Ord. Polygalee. 
A slender tree, 30 to 60 feet high; young branches hoary-pubescent ; the older 
with dark brown, lenticellate bark. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, shortly and bluntly acumi- 5 
nate, narrowed to the base; both surfaces shining; the upper glabrous; the lower pale, 
very minutely scurfy-pubescent, the reticulations and 6 pairs of nerves bold and promi- 
nent; length 4 to 5 іп, breadth 1:25 to 175 in.; petiole 92 to °3 in. Panieles 
axillary and terminal, slender, spreading. Flowers “95 in. in diam., shortly pedi- 
cellate. Sepals 5, pubescent, slightly unequal, Ovary hairy. Samaras 2 in, long; the 
