68 NNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
prominent beneath; length 5:5 to 7:5 in., breadth 1:5 to 2°25 in.; petiole °25 in. 
Flowers solitary, greenish-yellow, from the young branches below the leaves, or sometimes 
from tubercles on the trunk; Jength from ‘75 to 1:25 in.; the pedicels about °5 in. 
Sepals very small, sub-orbicular. Petals oblong-lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Carpels stalked, 
ovoid, slightly mammillate; the base tapering, purple and glabrous when ripe, ‘75 to 1°15 
in. long; stalks °25 to °5 in. Seed broadly ovoid, grooved. Thwaites’ Enum. 399; 
Beddome Ic. Pl. Ind. Or., t 53.—Guatteria coffeoides, Thwaites’ Enum. 10; Hook. 
fil. & Th. Fl. Ind. 141, 
Ceylon, and in the Annamaly Hills and the Wynaad in peakials India. 
Puate 91. Polyalthia coffeoides, Benth. § Hook. fil. 1, Flowering branch; 2, ripe 
fruit; 8, seed; 4, section of seed—of natural sizz; 5, andro-gyncecium; 6, the same in 
section; 7, auther; 8, ovary; 9, section of ovary enlarged. (All copied from a drawing 
made im the Herbarium of the Royal Garden, Peradeniya, Ceylon, and kindly lent by 
Dr, H. Trimen, vz.s.) 
9. PoOLYALTHIA MACRANTHA, Jing in Journ. As, Soc. Bengai 61, pt. 2, 54. <A tree 20 
to 70 feet high; young branches rather slender, glabrous. Leaves large, thinly coriaceous, 
oblong to elliptic-oblong, acute, slightly narrowed below the middle to the rounded or 
minutely cordate base; upper surface shining, glabrous, except the depressed slightly pube- 
tulous midrib; wee surface paler when dry, glabrous, very minutely lepidote; main 
nerves 20 to 24 pairs, spreading, thin but prominent. beneath; length 12 to 18 in,, 
breadth 4°5 to 7-5 im.; petiole 4 in., stout. Flowers solitary, axillary or slightly supra- 
axillary, 2°5 to 4:5 in. in diam.; pedicels 1:5 to 2 in. long (longer in fruit), glabrescent, 
with a sub-orbicular bracteole about the middle; the buds conical when young. Sepals 
thick, sub-orbicular, spreading, connate by their edges and forming a cup ‘75 in. in 
diam., puberulous on both surfaces, corrugated outside. Petals much larger than the 
sepals, white, thick, fleshy, flattish, oblong-elliptic, widest above the middle, blunt, pube- 
rulous on both surfaces except at the glabrescent bases, nerved inside; the outer row 
1:3 to 2-9 in. long, the inner smaller. Samens numerous, compressed; apical process of 
connective truncate, Ovaries few, oblong, puberulous; stigmas large, capitate-truncate, 
pubescent. Ripe carpels elliptic-ovoid, sometimes oblique, blunt at each end; the apex 
mucronate, glabrous, 1 to 1:25 in. long and °75 in. in diam. Seed ovoid, solitary ; 
the testa corrugated. rida es : : 
Perak,—King’s Collector, Scortechini. , : 
A remarkable species, with handsome white flowers, allied in many ways to P. 
congregata; but at once distinguished from that by its axillary solitary flowers and 
glabrous ripe carpels. — 
Puate 93. Polyalthia macrantha, King. 1, Flowering branch; 2, young flower-bud; 
8, advanced flower-bed; 4, calyx of mature Hawt seen from below; 5, andro- cymes; z 
6, ripe carpel—of nawural size; 7, anthers; 8, pistils—enlarged, 
10. Poryaurnta putcora, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 55. A small 
tree, glabrous except the inflorescence. caves thinly coriaceous, elliptic to oblong-lanceo- 
late or oblong-oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, the base acute; both surfaces minutely 
muriculate; the lower paler and dull; length 4°5 to 6 in., breadth 2:5 in. (only 1°75 in; 
