4 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
1. SretecHocarrus puNncratus, King im Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 4. 
A tree 20 to 30 feet high; young branches slender, cinereous-puberulous, becoming 
glabrous. Leaves membranous, minutely. pellucid-punctate, elliptic-ovate, shortly acumi- 
nate, slightly narrowed in the lower fourth to the rounded sub-oblique base; upper 
surface shining, glabrous, except the pubescent impressed midrib; lower surface shining, 
paler than the upper, sparsely puberulous or glabrous, the reticulations minute and 
distinct; main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, bold and prominent on the lower, slightly im- 
pressed on the upper, surface; length of blade 7 to 10 im, breadth 3 to 4 im.; 
petiole 15 to *2 in., stout, pubescent. Male flowers in several-flowered fascicles from 
woody tubercles on the trunk, pedunculate; buds turbinate, nearly ‘5: in. in diam. ; 
peduncles 1 to 1:5 in. long, stout, thickened upwards, ebracteolate, puberulous. Sepals 
very coriaceous, rotund, concave, conjoined at the base, spreading, rugose, pubescent 
outside, glabrous inside. Pefuls very coriaceous, rotund, concave, glabrous; the outer 
3 puberulous outside; the inner three smaller than the outer, quite glabrous, otherwise 
like them, and all of a dark brownish colour. Anthers sessile, flat, the cells elongate 
on the anterior surface, the back striate; apex without any appendage from the con 
nective. Female flowers and fruit unknown. 
Perak,—King’s Collector No. 7183. 
Although female flowers and fruit of this have not yet been found, I describe it 
as a new species of. Stéelechocarpus without any hesitation. Its male flowers have 
exactly the facies of those of S. Burahol, Bl; but they are larger, and they differ as 
to shape of their petals. The leaves of this species are distinctly pellucid-punctate 
(while those of S. Burahol are not), and they are broader and have slightly more 
nerves than those of S. Burahol, When boiled, the flowers of the two have exactly 
the same peculiar sweetish smell, | | 
Prate 1. Stelechocarpus punctatus, King. 1, Leaf-twig; 2, fascicle of male 
flower-buds from the trunk—of natural size; 8, male flower dissected; 4, anthers— 
enlarged. | 
2. OTE RPUS NITIDUS, King im Journ. As, Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 5. 
A tree 30 to 60 feet high; all parts glabrous except the inflorescence; young branches 
darkly cimereous, slender. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the 
base acute; both surfaces shining, very minutely scaly, the midrib and nerves deeply 
impressed on the upper, bold and prominent on the lower; the reticulations distinct 
on both; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, curved, sub-ascending, inter-arching within the 
edge; length of blade 6 to 9 in., breadth 1-8 to 3-25 in.; petiole 35 in. Mate flowers 
in many-flowered. fascicles from tubercles on the trunk, pedicellate; buds turbinate ; 
flowers when open probably nearly 1 in. in diam.; pedicels stout, thickened upwards, 
1 to 15 in. long, scurfy-puberulous, each with several sub-rotund glabrous bracteoles 
mostly near its base. Sepals very coriaceous, shortly oblong, obtuse, concave, spreading 
conjomed at the base, puberulous or glabrescent, warted externally, Outer 3 heitis 
much larger than the sepals and somewhat larger than the inner 3 petals, rotund 
concave, very coriaceous, glabrous, with scurfy warts externally near the middle; ‘ited 
3 petals coriaceous, rotund, blunt, cucullate, glabrous. Female flowers like the shilas 
stamens none ; ovaries very ‘Tumerous,. obscurely 3-angled, adpressed-sericeous. Wiis 
hemispheric. Ripe carpels broadly ovoid, lant 2 ain long 21:75 in. in Dan 
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