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channelled above and bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade ; 

 stipules small, ovate-falcate, densely ferruginous-pubescent. Flowers 

 fascicled, 3-4 together, in the axils of upper leaves or of terminal 

 leafless branchlets, giving the appearance of a terminal corymbose 

 inflorescence ; pedicels '8 to 1 in. long, densely rusty-pubescent, 

 recurved; buds ovate, "25 in. long, obtuse. Calyx-lobes 4, outer pair 

 rounded, thick, appressed pubescent to nearly glabrous ; inner pair 

 thinner, scarious, ciiiate. Corolla campanulate, '3 to •4 in. long, longer 

 than the calyx, glabrous ; lobes 8, oblong, cordate at base, crenate or 

 ciiiate on the margins, veined ; tube as long as lobes. Stamens 16, usually 

 in 2 rows ; filaments slender, glabrous ; anthers ovate, the connective 

 broad and produced in a broad glabrous acumen, sharp in bud, flattened 

 later on. Ovary linear-oblong ; style slender, '5 in. long. Fruit an 

 obpyriform fleshy berry, 1*5 in. long and -75 in. broad, surmounted by 

 the persistent conical style, seed 1. Seed oblong, 1 in. long, '6 in. broad, 

 flattened ; testa crustaceous, shining, chestnut-brown ; hilum narrow, 

 elongated ; albumen thick ; cotyledons broadly oblong, -5 in. long, 

 nerved ; radicle rather large, nearly -15 in. long, 



Kedah : Lankawi Island, Ridley 8329. Penang : Curtis 111. 

 Singapore : Bidley 4959, 9203. — Disteib. Borneo, Haviland 2098, 

 2320. 



P. Croixiana, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. I. 524 seems to be this 

 species or very near it. The following is Pierre's description : — 



A huge tree. Leaves oval or sub-oblong, long acuminate, glabrous ; 

 2-3 in. long, -3 in. broad; main-nerves 24 to 28, petiole '25 in. 

 Flowers 3, axillary, sub-terminal ; peduncles -2 to *3 in. long, "6 in. in 

 fruit. Sepals ovate, ciiiate. Corolla-tube pubescent without ; lobes 

 oblong, truncate at the apex, ciiiate ; filaments very short ; anthers sub- 

 oblong with a long connective, obtuse, pilose on both sides. Ovary 

 8-celled, tomentose, urceolate at the base of the style. Berry oblong, 

 •8-1-2 in. long, •5-"6 in. broad, glabrous, 1-seeded ; pericarp -06 in. 

 thick ; hilum under -04 in. broad, laterally extended over the whole 

 height; cotyledons "8 in. long; "02 in. broad, radicle "14 in. long. 



Malacca : St. Pol Lias ; Mad. Errington de la Croix in Paris Mus. 

 " Sundek." 



4. Payena Leerii, Benth. & Hook. f. ; Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. 

 Par. i. 524 (1885). A tree, reaching 80 to 100 feet in height and a con- 

 siderable girth ; branchlets grey, slender ; innovations minutely rusty- 

 pubescent. Leaves chartaceous ; elliptic, abruptly acuminate at apex, 

 acute or somewhat rounded at base ; upper surface glabrous, shining, 

 lower surface sparsely pubescent to glabrous ; margins undulate, re- 

 curved ; 2 to 4 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib prominent, impressed 



