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acuminate, the base rounded; both surfaces dull, glabrous, very minutely Jepidote; 
main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, anceaiing, faint, inter-arching far from the margin; length 
2°39 to 3°25 in, breadth ‘5 to ‘9 in.; petiole less than *l in. Flowers a eee leaf- 
opposed, *3 to 35° in, long; pedicels slender, glabrous, ‘3 to ‘4 in. long with a small 
lanceolate bracteole about the middle. Sepals thick, spreading, broadly ovate, acute or 
acuminate, *l in. long, glabrescent outside, quite glabrous inside. Petals leathery, 
sub-equal, narrowly oblong, acuminate, not widened at the base, sub-corrugated and 
glabrous outside, puberulous inside, *3 in. long. Stamens numerous, short; the apical 
process very broad, rhomboid, truncate, projecting much over the upices of the short 
dorsal anther-cells. Ovaries very few, oblong, pubescent; stigma broad, sessile, hairy. 
Kipe carpels one or two, ovoid-globose, glabrous, cherry-red when ripe, *25 to °3 in. 
long. 
Perak; elevat. about 1,200 feet, —W ray, Scortechint. 
Near P. suderosa, H. f. & Th., but with different venation, fewer carpels, and 
without hypertrophied bark. 
Prate 86A. Polyalthia dumosa, King. 1, Flowering branch; 2, ripe carpels—of 
natural size; 3, flower dissected; 4, anthers; 4, pistils—en/arged, 
3. PoLyALTHIA CERASOIDES, Benth. § Hook, fil. Gen. Pl. 1. 25. A shrub or small 
tree; young branches minutely rufous-tomentose, the older glabrous with pale, lenticellate 
bark. Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the base 
rounded or sub-acute; upper surface shining, glabrous, except the pubescent midrib ; 
lower. pubescent, becoming glabrescent when old; main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, 
ascending, slender, slightly prominent beneath, the intermediate nerves nearly as 
prominent ; length 3 to 7 in., breadth 1 to 1°75 in.; petiole *1. to *25 in., tomentose. 
Flowers ‘6 to °8 in. in diam., pedicelled, axillary, solitary, or 2 or 3 together from 
short woody tubercles; pedicels rather stout, tomentose, *6 to 1 in. long, with one or 
two large ovate or SporaEe concave bracts. Sepals membranous, ovate-lanceolate, 
adpressed-hairy outside, glabrous inside, reflexed, not much shorter than the petals. 
Petals spreading, incurved, dirty green, very coriaceous, oblong to ovate-oblong, sub- 
acute, puberulous, ‘4 in. long. Carpes numerous, stalked, broadly ovoid, apiculate, 
glabrous, °35 in. long; stalks slender, granular, ‘75 to 1 im. long. Seed pale, dull, 
dense. Bedd. Fi. Sylv. 7.1; Brandis For. Flora 5; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i. 383; Hook. 
fil. Fl. Br. Ind, 1. 68. ef Cmocs cerasoides, H. Bn. Pie Fl. Forest Coch.-Chine, t. 26.— 
Uvaria cerasoides, Roxb. Corom. Pl. i. t. 33; Fl. Ind. ii. 666.—Guatteria cerasoides, 
Dun. Mem. Anon. 127; DC. Prodr. i. 93; Wall. Cat. 6486; H. f. §& T. Fl Ind. 
139; Dalz. & Gibs, Bomb. PE os We & A. rrodr, 10, 
On dry hills from Bihar be witd to Tinnivelly ; ; in Burmah, on the Prome 
and Shan Hills. i 
Pirate 86B. Polyalthia cerasoides, Benth. § Hook. fil. 1, Flowering and fruiting 
branch; 2 & 3, sections of ripe fruit—f natural size; 4, flower; 5, torus with 
a stamen and a Gael eilaryed - 6, section of en eae oy: enlarged. 
4. PoLYALTHIA PERSICEFOLIA, Benth & H. f. Gen. Pl. i, 25, A shrub; young 
branches slender, pubescent, lenticellate. Leaves thinly coriaceous, shortly petiolate, 
~ Ayn. Roy. Bor. Garp. Carcutta Vor. IY. 
