76 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
1°8 to 2°6 in.; petiole ‘25 to °35 in. Sowers about 1 in. long, im clusters of 20 to 
290 from nodulated puberulous tubercles on the stem; pedicels long (1°5 to 2°5 in,), 
slender, puberulous, with an ovate-lanceolate bracteole eae the middle, Sepals thick, 
lanceolate-acuminate with broad connate bases, sub-erect, puberulous. Petals coriaceous, 
sub-erect, linear-oblong, slightly concave and glabrous at the base inside, otherwise 
minutely tomentose; the inner slightly smaller than the outer. Séamens numerous; the 
connective with an orbicular, sub-convex, apical expansion concealing the limear dorsal 
anther-cells. Ovaries much less numerous than the stamens, oblong, hirsute, apparently 
l-ovuled ; the stigma small,. oblong, slightly pubescent. 
Perak,—King’s Collector, Wray. 
Distrib.—Sumatra,—Forbes (No. 2804). 
In all the flowers I have examined the pistils are very small (as if undeveloped), 
and I have not been able to find more than one ovule. In the Sumatran specimens 
the flowers are much longer than im those from . Perak. | 
Prate 106. Polyalthia glomerata, King. 1, Leaf-twig; 2, fascicle of flowers 
on a stem tubercle; 3, flower from a Sumatran specimen—of natural size; 4, flower 
dissected ; 5, anthers; 4, pistils—enlurged. 
94,  PonyauTata conerecata, King im Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 61. A 
tree 40 to 60 feet high; young branches at first rusty-puberulous but speedily glab- 
rous and dark-coloured. Lewes thinly coriaceous, oblong elliptic, acute, slightly 
narrowed to the rounded or minutely cordate base; upper surface. glabrous except the 
depressed puberulous midrib; the lower pale when dry, clabrous, minutely lepidote ; 
main nerves 13 to 19 pairs, oblique, curving, thin but prominent beneath; length 9 
to 16 in., breadth 3°75 to 7 in.; petiole 3 or *4 in., stout. Fowers large, in short, 
much divided, rough, tubercular, woody cymes from the stem near its base; the 
pedicels 1:25 to 175 in. long, glabrescent; bracteole single, sub- orbicular, clasping, 
infra-median, Sepals thick, broadly ovate-triangular, sare cin slightly cuneate at the 
base, concave, corrugated and puberulous outside, glabrous inside, often reflexed, ‘5 
in long. Petals thick, white, ovate-elliptic, sub-acute, hoary-puberulous, except at the 
base inside on both surfaces: the outer row 1:5 to 3 in. lone and ‘65 to 1 in. broad, 
the inner row narrower. Stamens numerous, compressed; the apical process of the 
connective truncate, oblique, granular; anther-cells linear, dorsal. Ovuries 20 to 380, 
oblong, strigose, with a single basilar ovule; stigma oblong, pubescent. Ripe carpels 
elliptic, beaked, 1 in. or more long, hoary-pubescent, narrowed at the base: into the 
short, thick stalk. Seed solitary, pale brown, shining, elliptic. Lees 
Perak,— Seortechini, King’s Collector. oe | 
This resembles P. macrantha, King; but is distinguished from that by its cymose, 
cauline inflorescence, smaller flowers and puberulous fruit. Mr. H. O. Forbes collected in 
the. Lampongs in Eastern Sumatra a plant (No. 1642 of his Herb.) which ereatay 
resembles this. 
Puate 107. Polyalthia congregata, King. 1, Leaf; 2, inflorescence from the stem ; 
3, flower-bud; 4, outer petal; 5, inner petal; 6, calyx and andro-gyneecium—of natural 
size; 7 & 8, anthers from. an outer row; 9-& 10, anthers from inner row; 1, pistil— 
érelneged: Ae et \ 
