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PiatE 109B. Polyalthia Moonii, Thwaites. 1, Branch with flower and fruit; 2, ripe 
seed—of natural size; 3 & 4, flower-bud and flower seen from above and from below; 
5 & 6, andro-gynecium; 7, outer petal (apex downwards); 8, inner petal; 9, anther ; 
10, pistil; 11, section of ovary; 12, section of ripe seed—enlarged in various degrees. 
(Vos. 3 to 11 are copied from a drawing executed in the Herbarium of the Royal Garden, 
Peradeniya, and kindly lent by the Director, Dr. H. Trimen, rx.) 
29. Potyatruta korintI, Benth. § Hook, fil. Gen. Pl. i. 25. A spreading shrub; 
young branches slender, pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to ovate, 
acute or acuminate, the base rounded or acute; both surfaces glabrous, boldly reticulate ; 
main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, slender, sub-horizontal, inter-arching doubly within the margin; 
the midrib sometimes pubescent beneath; length 25 to 5 in, breadth 1 to 2 in.; 
petiole *15 to °25 in. Flowers pedicelled, green, solitary, axillary, or extra-axillary, °6 to 
‘75 in. in diam. ; pedicels slender, *6 to ‘8 in. long, strigose, with 1 to 3 minute bracts. 
Sepals about a fourth of the length of the petals, ovate, sub-acute, adpressed-pubescent. 
Petals coriaceous; the outer oblong, the inner ovate-oblong .and rather longer than the 
outer; all obtuse, sparsely pubescent. Carpels numerous, shortly stalked, ovoid-globose, 
blunt, grooved, glabrous, red when ripe, 35 in. long. Seed smooth, shining. Jlook. fil. 
fl, Br. Ind. i. 64.—Guatteria corinti, H. f. § TL. Fl. Ind. 141; Thwaites’ Enum. 398.~ 
Guatteria Korinti, Dunal Anon, 1384; DC. Prodr. i. 94; W. & A. Prodr. 10; Wight Ie., 
t. 398; Thwattes’ Enum. 10; Hf. & T. Fl. Ind. 141.—G. acutiflora, Wall. Cat. 6438 
(excl. D.) 
The Eastern Ghats of Western Peninsular India and Ceylon; ascending to 1,500 
feet. 
Prate 110A. Polyalthia korinti, Benth. § Hook. fil. 1, Flowering branch; 2, leaf 
from another specimen; 3, ripe fruit; 4, back of flower—of natural size; 5, andro- 
gyneecium; 6, anthers; 7, ovaries—en/arged. 
Concerning the two obscure species of Polyalthia named Guatteria sempervirens and 
acutifuiia by Dunal, Sir J. D. Hooker aad Dr. Thomson remark as follows (Fl. Jndica 
ie ee 
“ G. sempervirens, Dunal, and G. acutiflora, Dunal, founded entirely on Rheede’s figures (Hort. Mal., 
v. t. 16, 18), appear to us to differ in no character of importance from t. 14 of the same volume, 
which is considered to represent G. corinti, Dun. The shape of the petals varies from acute to 
obtuse, and the flowers vary a good deal in size. G. sempervirens is said by Rheede to be common in 
Malabar, and G. acutifora to grow in mountainous places; and it is not likely that no trace of 
these species (if distinct) should be found in Dr. Wight’s extensive collections. There can at least be 
no doubt that G. acutiflora, which is the only one of the three figured in flower, is only the flower- 
ing state of one of the other two.” 
30. PoLyaLTHIA BuLLATA, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 64. A 
shrub 6 to 8 feet high; young branches densely covered with long, soft, spreading 
golden hairs. Leaves thinly coriaceous, bullate (at least when dry), narrowly oblong, 
acuminate, narrowed but slightly to the deeply cordate auricled base; both sur- 
faces boldly reticulate; the upper shining, glabrous, except the sulcate puberulous 
midrib; the lower glabrescent, except the midrib and nerves which have sparse 
hairs like those on the young branches; main nerves 25 to 40 pairs, spreading 
