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4-angled ancl.;4-winged, the bark dark-brown and flakey, deciduous. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, almost sessile, broadly lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, the base broad and minutely cordate, the apex shortly and 

 bluntly acuminate; upper surface dull olivaceous-brown with remote 

 black pits, the nerves slightly and the midrib greatly depressed ; lower 

 surface pale-brown, with many small black marks especially on the bold 

 thick midrib; main-nerves 14 to 18 pairs, prominent, slightly curved, 

 subascending and interarching at about '1 in. from the edge; length 

 2 to 2-25 in. ; breadth 1 to 1'5 in. ; petiole -05 in. wrinkled. Flowers 

 in terminal, sessile, multi-bracteate glomeruli about '4 in. long; the 

 bracts about as long as the flowers, large, broadly oblong, blunt, their 

 posterior surfaces bearing many black dots. Flowers about '25 in. 

 long, their pedicels less than '1 in. Calyx cylindric, slightly contracted 

 at the base; the mouth with 5 erect, ovate, blunt, sub-distant teeth, 

 about -05 in. long. Petals sub-orbicular, calyptrate. Fruit sub- 

 globular, '25 in. in diam., crowned by the calyx-teeth. 

 JoHORE : on Gunong Panti, Ridley 4197. 



This species comes very near E. tetraptera, Miq., but that species has narrower, 

 less conspicuously bracteate flowers and its young branches are covered with 

 glandular hairs. This is also allied to E. tecta, King, which has, however, larger 

 flowers in pedunculate bracteate heads. The leaves of the two are almost exactly 

 alike in texture and form, but the dots and pits in those of E. tecta are less conspi- 

 cuous than in these of this plant. This is also closely allied to E. polita, 



57. EuGHNiA POLITA, King. A glabrous tree, 30 to 60 feet high ; 

 young branches slender, compressed and acutely 4-angled or winged, 

 their bark pale-brown and deciduous. Leaves coriaceous, lanceolate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, bluntly and shortly acuminate, the base abruptly 

 cuneate, both surfaces shining and of a liver-brown colour ; main-nerves 

 10 to 12 pairs, often forked, interarching less than '04 in. from the edge, 

 hardly visible on the upper surface, length 1*5 to 225 in. ; breadth 

 •75 to 1 in. ; petiole under '1 in. Panicles shorter than the leaves, 

 axillary and terminal, very condensed, many-flowered, bearing coriaceous 

 bracts of two sorts, those at the base of the panicle with long, subulate 

 points, those at the base of its branches and of the flowers oblong with 

 broad truncate apices, the rachis and branches 4-winged. Flowers 

 (including the stamens) '35 in. long, sessile. Calyx funnel-shaped, 

 ribbed, very coriaceous ; the limb much prolonged beyond the ovary, 

 but only slightly expanded, with 5 ovate-rotund, concave, erect lobes. 

 Petals orbicular, deciduous. Stamens not very numerous nor long. 

 Fruit globular, crowned by the 5 calyx-lobes, when young minutely 

 pellucid-glandular. E. zeylanica, Duthie (not of Wight) in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. 11, 485, in part. Syzyg, politum, Wall. Cat. 3626. 



