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smooth, with grey dotted bark; while young slightly villous with 

 short, jointed, ferruginous or reddish, copious hairs — Leaves small, 

 alternate, approximate, bifarious, spreading, coriaceous, lanceolate, 

 or cuneate-Ianceolate, acute, sharply serrulate, each serrature ending 

 in a sharp point, tapering and sub-entire at the base, very smooth ; and 

 minutely dotted as in the preceding species ; lucid and slightly con- 

 cave above, pallid or whitish underneath with scarcely visible reticulate 

 nerves; from half an inch to an inch and halt long. — Petiol scarcely 



a line long, a little villous, slightly channelled F forcers united and 



male, tetrandious, white, with a pale pink tint, five, or six fascicled 

 in axillary, numerous, round, small bunches, besprinkled wnh c >p ous 

 brown, elevated, resinous dots. Peduncles fleshy, very slioi t, each 

 with an ovate, concave, dotted, deciduous bractlet at the base. Calyx 

 and corolla with lanceolate, ciliate divisions. Filaments very short, 

 subulate, widening and almost uniting at their base. Anthers large, 

 oblong, erect, purple, nearly twice as long as the corolla. Style 

 short. Stigma large, flat, verrucose.— Rudiment of the pistil in the 

 male flowers with a minute point. Drupe round, red, smooth, about 

 the size of a coriander seed. 



06s. The tree comes very near to M. africana. The benies are 

 much infested with a parasitical fungus, consisting of numerous spread- 

 ing, rigid, black, columnar, capitate bodies, which stain the fingers 

 with black dust.— N. W. 



4. M. pachysandra, Wall. 



Arboreous, erect. Leaves smooth, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 entire. Flowers hermaphrodite, pedicelled, glandular, farming nu- 

 merous axillary and lateral fascicles (from the vestiges of the fallen 

 leaves.) Anthers large. 



A small tree found growing on the hills at Pinang by Mr. 

 George Porter; in blossom in the beginning of the year. 



Branches cylindric with elevated decurrent lines j villous; while 



