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by the persistent base of the style and supported by the persistent 

 calyx-lobes, nearly 1 in. long. Seed 1, oblong, acute at the top, 

 ■7 in. long, -35 in. broad, and about -3 in. thick ; testa shining, 

 crustaceous, chestnut-brown ; hilum -15 to "2 in. broad ; albumen none ; 

 cotyledons thick, inner face somewhat striate ; radicle rather large, 

 inferior. Payena malaccensis, Clarke in Hook. f. PL Br. Ind. III. 547. 

 Keratephorus Wightii, Maingay MS. {not o/Hassk.). 



Malacca: ariffith (K.D.) S610; Maingay (K.J). ) 992. Peeak: Wray 

 1229 ; Scortechini 314. Singapobe : Bidley 2082, 2757, 5643, 6042, 

 6132, 6133, 6498, 6499, 6500, 6531, 8078, 10159. 



Wray says this species gives only a sticky gutta in small quantities. 



6. Bassia Curtisii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree, reaching 40 to 

 50 feet in height ; branches greyish-brown, strongly marked by the scars 

 of fallen leaves and the prominent tubercles of fallen flowers, innovations 

 very slightly rusty-pubescent, thick. Leaves very coriaceous ; clustered 

 at the ends of the branchlets, obovate or sometimes lanceolate-obovate, 

 obtuse emarginate or very suddenly and shortly blunt-acuminate ; 

 glabrous on both surfaces, margins strongly recurved ; 4 to 6 in. long, 

 1-25 to 2'5 in. broad; midrib stout, prominent ; main-nerves not promi- 

 nent, 14 to 15 pairs, at an angle of about 70° with the midrib, '3 to "4 in. 

 apart, straight, joined near the margin by a looped intramarginal nerve ; 

 secondary nerves prominent, reticulations few ; all raised on the under 

 surface ; petiole "7 to 1 in. long, rather thick, bordered by the decurrent 

 margins of the blade, base swollen. Floivers fascicled, many (10 to 12) 

 together on prominent tubercles in the axils of the scars of fallen leaves 

 below the leaf-cluster, and covering the branchlets densely for a 

 distance of about 4 in. ; pedicels -25 (buds) to "5 (flower) in. long, 

 somewhat angular, decurved, densely pale tawny-pubescent ; buds 

 ovoid-conical. Calyx-lobes rounded, obtuse, densely tawny-pubescent, 

 •2 in. long, the outer pair thick, the inner somewhat keeled, scarious on 

 the margins. Corolla campanulate, rather longer than the calyx ; tube 

 short, glabrous except for the ring of hairs at the insertion of the 

 stamens ; lobes 8, oblong spathulate, ciliate and hirsute at the tip. 

 Stamens 16 ; filaments short, slender, villous ; anthers ovate-acute, the 

 connective ending in a sharp conical acumen, extrorse. Ovary rounded, 

 villous ; style thick glabrous, stigmas minute ; cells 8. Fruit an oblong 

 berry, covered without with appressed golden pubescence, "5 to "7 in. 

 long, -5 in. broad, crowned with the persistent style and supported by 

 the persistent calyx ; seeds 1-2, placentas thin. Seeds oblong, pointed 

 at the ends • testa crustaceous, shining ; hilum narrow ; albumen none ; 

 cotyledons thick, fleshy, radicle small. 



