72 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Pate 98. Polyalthia acuminata, Thw. 1, Branch with young leaf and flower-bud ; 
2, branch with flower and fruit; 3, adult leaf—all of natural size and copied from 
a drawing made in the Peradeniya Herbarium and kindly lent by its Director, Dr. H. 
Trimen, F-B.8. 
16, Poryaurata tonerrouria, Benth. § Hook. fil. Gen. Pl. i, 25. <A tall tree; young 
branches slender, glabrous, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves membranous, narrowly 
lanceolate, taper-pointed, the edges undulate; the base broadly cuneate, rarely rounded; 
both surfaces glabrous, the upper shining; main nerves 20 to 35 pairs, faint, oblique; 
length 8°5 to 7 in., breadth °75 to 1°5 in.; petiole *25 to °35 in. Flowers in fascicles or 
shortly peduncled umbels, numerous, yellowish-green, about 1 in. long; pedicels slender, 
1 to 2 in. long, with one or even two minute bracts about the middle. Sepals 
triangular, spreading, hoary-pubescent, much shorter than the petals. Petals sub-equal, 
linear, spreading, pointed, with slightly expanded bases, puberulous. Jtipe carpels numerous, 
stalked, ovoid, obtuse at both ends, glabrous, ‘75 in. long; stalk *d in. long, stout, 
glabrous. Seed smooth, shining. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 62; Thwaites’ Hnum. 398; 
Bedd. Fl. Sylvat., ¢t. 38.—Guatteria longifolia, Wall. Cat. 6442; W. & A. Prodr. 10; 
Wight Ic, t= 1; He f. & T. Fl. Ind. 1389; Thwaites’ Enum. 10; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. pé. 
2, 45.—Uvaria. cigttesfolia, Lam. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 664. 
- Indigenous in the south of British India and in the drier parts of Ceylon. Planted, 
especially near temples, throughout the warmer and moister parts of British India. 
In the south of India known by uae vernacular name of Asoke: in Northern India 
named Debdar. 
Puate 99. Polyalthia longifolia, Benth. & Hook. fil. 1, Talenearity branch ; 2, ripe 
fruit; 3 & 4, sections of ripe fruit; 5, section of ripe seed—of natural size; 6, flower; 
7, anther; 8, pistil—enlarged. 
17, PotyattHia Fracrans, Benth. § Hook. fil. Gen. Pl. i. 25. A tree; young 
branches densely but minutely tawny-tomentose, the older dark and lenticellate. Leaves 
membranous, elliptic or ovate, rarely oblong-lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, the 
base rounded; upper surface shining, glabrous, except the puberulous midrib; lower dull, 
glabrous or puberulous; main nerves 15 to 18 pairs, oblique, curving little, bold and 
prominent beneath; length 6 to 8 in,, breadth 1°5 to 3:25 in.; petiole -35 to °d in. 
Flowers in shortly pedunculate few or many-flowered cymes, from the axils of the 
Jeaves or tubercles on the branches; peduncles and branches of the cymes tomentose; 
pedicels from -5 to 1 in. long with a sub-orbicular bract about the middle. Sepals 
small, orbicular. Petals sub-equal, narrowly linear, puberulous, 1°5 in. long and -2 in. 
broad. Carpels stalked, ovoid, oblique, blunt, puberulous, 1 to 1°5 in. long; pericarp 
very brittle. Seed orbicular-ovoid. Beddome Ic. Pl. Ind. Or., t. 54; Hook, fil. Fl. Br. 
Ind. i. 63.—Guatteria fragrans, Dalz. in Kew Journ, Bot. iii. 206; Hook. fil. §& Th. Fl. 
Ind, 142; Dalz. & Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 4. 
| Forest of the South Concan, Canara and Malabar 3 in Peninsular India. 
Prare 100A. Polyalthia fragrans, Benth. § Hook. fil. 1, Flowering branch; 
2, flower; 3, carpel; 4, seed; 5, transverse section of seed—of natural size; 6, anthers; 
7, pistils—enlarged (partly copied from a drawing kindly lent by Dr. Trimen, ¥.2-S-) 
