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5270. Malacca : Griffith. Singapoee : Cantley 166 ; Bidley 8095 

 (var. glabra, Koord. & Val). — Distrie. Java {Koorders 1^, 14230), 

 Borneo {Haviland 1732). Wray gives the vernacular name " Jelutmig," 

 Ciu'fcis " Getah Paule," Cantley " Gutta Pulei." 



A leaf-specimen collected by G. King " halfway up Penang hill," in August, 1879, 

 and another from Malacca, collected by Hervey in 1885, have " Leaves in. whorls of 

 4 to 6, oblong-lanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate at apex, attenuate at base ; 

 green above, glaucous grey beneath ; 4 to 6 in. long, 1 to 1-5 in. broad ; main nerves 

 very many, nearly 40, very regular and parallel; petiole rather slender, -25 to -6 in. 

 long." They agree well with Teysmann's No. 994 from Loeboe Aloeng, Sumatra, 

 Alstonia caloplnjlla, :\liq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 439. 



4. Alstonia CuETisn, Eang & Gamble, n. sp. A dwarf compact 

 shrub ; branchlets slender, grey, ringed by the ridges marking fallen 

 leaves. Leaves membranous when dry, in whorls of 3 to 4 ; oblan- 

 ceolate, sharply acuminate at apex, attenuate at base ; dull on both 

 surfaces, pale beneath ; margins recurved ; 3 to 4 in. long, '75 to 1 in. 

 broad ; midrib slender ; main nerv^es parallel, starting at about 70° to 

 the midrib and curved upwards to the margin, 24 to 27 pairs, indis- 

 tinct ; secondary nerves similar, between the main nerves ; reticulations 

 very indistinct ; petiole none or very short, bordered by the decurrent 

 margins of the blade, with 2 to 3 small subulate glands on the upper 

 surface at the base. Cymes pseudo-terminal, 1 to 2, few-flowered ; 

 peduncles short, "1 to "2 in. long ; pedicels slender, '75 in. long ; flowers 

 white ; buds long clavate with a swelling in the middle. Calyx-txihe 

 short; lobes as long as tube, -05 in., ovate-acimainate, hyaline at the 

 margins, glabrous. Corolla-tnhe very slender, 1 in. long, dilated a Httle 

 above the middle, glabrous without, sHghtly pubescent within below the 

 stamens ; lobes oblong-falcate, overlapping to the left in bud, '6 in. 

 long, spreading, glabrous. Stamens inserted within the dilatation ; 

 anthers lanceolate, '15 in. long ; filaments short ; pollen globose. Dish 

 of two subulate scales on broad bases alternate mth the carpels. Ovary 

 glabrous ; style very slender ; stigma cylindric, elongated (-05 in.), bifid 

 at apex ; ovules very many. Fruit of two glabrous foUicles, 3 to 3*5 in. 

 long, -1 to "15 in. broad, acuminate at apex. Seeds oblong, peltate on a 

 tough placenta, -25 in. long, -1 in. broad; margins scabrous, dentate, 

 especially at the ends ; testa covered with brown papillae on the outer 

 and with two ridges on the inner side ; coma white, silky, very short at 

 the sides, up to -15 in. long at the ends ; albumen scanty. 



Kasoom : limestone islands, Curtis 3242. 



5. ALSTONLi. maceophylla, Wall. Cat. 1648 (1829). A large tree, 

 reaching 40 to 60 feet in height and 1 to 2 feet in diameter ; branches 

 stout, fleshy ; branchlets more or less quadrangular and channelled on 



