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pale (when dry); main nerves 15 to 20 pairs, very slender and- little more pro- 
minent than the secondary; length 4:5 to 6:5 in., breadth 1:25 to I-74 in; 
petiole °25 im. Flowers 1:4 to 1:75 im. long, solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3 
from the younger branches below the leaves, or axillary; their pedicels ‘6 to °9 in. 
long, minutely bracteolate near the base, glabrous. Sepals very small, half-orbicular- 
ovate.. Petals narrowly linear-oblong, sub-acute or obtuse, puberulous, pale green to 
yellowish ; the outer slightly longer than the imner, 1:35 to 1:75 in. long and +16 
to *2 in. broad. Ovaries glabrous, sub-cylindric, with a single ovule; stigma hairy. 
Carpels ovoid, tapermg to each end, ridged (when dry), pubescent or glabrous, 
about. 1.in, long and °6 in. in diam.; their stalks *5 to ‘6 in. long. Guatteria 
sumatrana, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat, Suppl.. 380.—Monoon sumatranum, Mig. Ann, Mus. Lugd. 
Bar ai; 19: 2) > sere 
Perak; at elevations up to 2,500 feet, common. Distrib.n—Sumatra,—Xorthais, 
Beccari P. S. No. 613. Borneo, Korthals, Beccari Nos. 680 and 1168. 
- This is allied to P. hypoleuca, H. f. & T.; but has larger leaves, much larger 
flowers, and slightly different carpels. 
| PuaTe 89. Polyalthia sumatrana, King. 1, Flowering branch; 2, young flowers 
from another specimen; 3, young carpels; 4, ripe carpel; 5, flower dissected—of 
natural size ; 6, anthers; 7, pistils—enlarged. : 
7. PobyaLTHia ANDAMANICA, Kurz Andam, Report (1870), p. 29. A shrub; young 
branches slender, tomentose. eaves membranous, ovate-lanceolate, acute; the base 
broad and rounded, slightly unequal; some of the larger nerves underneath and _ the 
midrib on both surfaces pubescent near the base, otherwise glabrous and shining ; 
main nerves, 6 or 7 pairs, distant, spreading and forming bold arches far from the 
margin; reticulations minute, distinct; length 4:5 to 6 im, breadth 2 to 2-4 in; 
petiole *2 in., pubescent. lowers axillary or extra-axillary, solitary, 2 in, in diam.; 
the pedicel -4. to ‘75 in. long, sub-pubescent, minutely bracteolate. Sepals minute 
(-1 in. long), broadly triangular, pubescent. Pedals thinly coriaceous, sub-equal, oblong, 
blunt, 1 in. long. Ripe carpels 6 to 8, oblong, smooth, glabrous, slightly apiculate, 
+5 or °6 in. long and 15 to ‘2 in. in diam.; their stalks nearly as long. King in 
Journ, As. Soc, Bengal 61, pt. 2, 53.—P. Jenkinsii, Benth. §& Hook. fil. in Hook. fil. 
Fi. Br. Ind. i. 64 (in part); Kurz For. Fl. Burm, i. 38. 
S. Andaman,—Kurz, Man, King’s Collector. eee 
Allied to P. Jenkinsi, H. f. & T.; but with much weal flowers, and leaves 
with broader bases, | 
Puate 90. Polyalthia <epeee Kurz. 1, Fruiting branch; 2, flower seen from 
above; 3, flower from below—of natural size; 4 andro-gynecium; 5, anthers; 6, pistils— 
enlarged. | 
8, PoLyALTHIA COFFEOIDES, Benth. §& Hook. fil. Gen. Pl. i. 25; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 
Ind.-i. 62.. A spreading tree; young branches glabrous; the older lenticellate and corky. 
Leaves membranous, slightly pellucid-dotted, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or shortly 
acuminate, the edges shortly undulate; the base slightly narrowed, rounded; both surfaces 
glabrous; the upper shining, the lower dull, paler; main nerves 12 to 16 pairs, oblique, 
Axy. Roy. Bor. Garp. Caxucurta Vou. IV. 
