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Prare 96. Polyalthia Jenkinsii, Benth. § Hook, fil. 1, Flowering branch; 2, flower 
dissected; 3, ripe fruit—of natural size; 4, anthers; 5, pistils—enlarged. 
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14. Poryaurata Hooxertana, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 57. A tree 
20 to 70 feet high; young branches softly tawny-pubescent, ultimately glabrous and 
darkly cinereous. Leaves membranous, obovate-elliptic or oblanceolate, shortly acuminate, 
narrowed from above the middle.to the sub-cuneate base; both surfaces reticulate, the 
upper glabrous except the pubescent midrib and nerves; lower glabrous, the midrib and 
nerves adpressed-pubescent; main nerves 10 or 11 pairs, oblique, forming imperfect 
arches close to the edge, prominent beneath; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 2°25 to 3°25 in.; 
petiole *15 to *2 in., tomentose. Flowers in pairs from peduncles with several aborted 
flowers near their bases, extra-axillary; pedicels °5 to ‘75 in. long, lengthening in fruit, 
stout, pubescent, with 1 or 2 small ovate bracteoles at the middle or below it. Sepals 
broadly ovate, concave,. free, or connate only at the base, pubescent outside, glabrous 
within, °2 in..long. Pedals coriaceous, yellowish, sub-equal, ovate or obovate-oblong, sub- 
acute, puberulous except ‘at the base mside, only slightly contracted at the base, nearly 1 
in. long. Stamens numerous, very short, cuneate ; the apical process of the connective 
thick, with a truncate orbicular top hiding the linear dorsal anthers. Ovaries short, oblong, 
puberulous, with 1 ovule; stigma sessile, large, obovate with sub-truncate lobed apex. 
Ripe carpels numerous, ovoid, slightly apiculate and somewhat narrowed at the base, 6d 
in. long; stalks 1-2 in. long. Seed solitary, ovoid, smooth, with a vertical furrow. 
Perak,—King’s Collector, Wray. r 
This is a common tree in Perak. In Malacca, however, it appears to be rare; for 
it is so very imperfectly represented in Maingay’s great Malayan collection (of which 
the best set is at Kew) that Sir Joseph Hooker, while recognising it as a Polyalthia, 
had not sufficient material to enable him to describe it in his Flora of British India. 
Pare 97. Polyalthia Hookeriana, King. 1, Flowering branch; 2, unripe carpels—of 
natural size; 3, anthers; 4, ovaries—enlarged. : 
45. ~Poryanrata acuminata, Thwaites’ Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 399. A tree; young branches 
densely tawny-tomentose. Leaves membranous, elliptic-ovate to elliptic-oblong, sometimes 
slightly obovate, shortly acuminate, the base rounded; upper surface shining, glabrous, 
the midrib depressed and puberulous; under-surface dull, rather darker in colour than 
the upper (when dry), puberulous, the midrib and 15 to 18 pairs of stout oblique nerves 
pubescent ; length 7 to 11 m,, breadth 2°75 to 4 in.; petiole ‘4 in., tomentose. 
Flowers large (8 to 4 in. in diam.), greenish-yellow, pedicelled, solitary or 2 to 3 
from rough woody peduncles about *75 to 1 in. long from the branches below the leaves ; 
pedicels from 1 to 2 in. long, tomentose and with, one or more bracts, Sepals triangular, 
acute, spreading, tomentose, about *35 in. long. Pata coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, sub- 
acute, pubescent, veined, 2 in. long and about 1 in. broad; the inner three rather smaller 
than the outer. Ripe carpels stalked, ovoid-globose, tomentose, about 1 in. long; stalk 
from '*75 to 1 in. Seed broadly ovoid, ‘smooth, shining, grooved. Beddome Ic. Pl. Ind. 
Or., t. 57; Hook. fil. Fl.. Br. Ind. i. 63. a at 
Ceylon, near Ratnapura. 
A magnificent species, but very local. 
