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iieatli ; length 5 to 8 in., breadth 1'5 to 3 in., petiole "5 to 1 in. Flowers 

 '2 to '3 in, in diam., narrowly ovate in bud, in fascicles of 2 to 5 from 

 small axillary tubercles, but mostly from the axils of fallen leaves ; the 

 pedicels slender, minutely bracteolate, '75 in. long, scurfy. Male jioiver ; 

 sepals erect, unequal, the two outer smaller, more or less broadly ovate, 

 blunt ; petals larger than the sepals, sub-erect, membranous, veined, 

 oblong, blunt : stamens about 25, glabrous ; the anthers broadly ovate, 

 blunt, with sutural dehiscence; rudimentary ovary none. Female flower ; 

 sepals and petals as in the male ; stamens absent. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; 

 styles 3, distinct to the base, or united half way. Fruit globular, sub- 

 dehiscent, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Seeds broadly ovate, angled, 

 deeply pitted. Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 287. Miq. Fi. Ind. Bat. 

 i, Pt. 2, p. 483; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i, 104. Scaplia GandoUei and S. 

 Pinangiana, Choisy Mem. Ternst. 31. Ternstrcemia 'pentapetala, Jack in 

 Malay. Misc. i, No. 5, 40. T. trilocularis, Roxb. ex Wall. PI. As. Rar. 

 ii, 40. T. hilocularis, Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 522 ? 



In all the provinces (except the Andamans and ISTicobars from 

 which it has not as yet been sent) ; at low elevations, common. 



The plant figured under this name by Pierre (Fl. Forest Coch.- 

 Chine) is obviously a different species ; for it has 5 styles, and it differs 

 also in other respects. 



2. Saurauja NUDiFLORA, DO. Mem. Soc. Geneve, i, 422. A tree 20 to 

 30 feet high ; youngest branchlets dark-coloured, squamulose towards the 

 apex ; the older esquamulose, pale, faintly striate. Leaves membranous, 

 oblanceolate, shortly and sharply acuminate, minutely glandular-serrate, 

 narrowed in the lower half to the acute base ; both surfaces glabrous ; 

 the midrib and 12 to 13 pairs of bold spreading nerves puberulous on 

 the upper, sparsely covered with flattened hairs on the lower, surface ; 

 length 6 to 10 in., breadth 2*25 to 3*75 in., petiole "5 to 1'25 in. Flowers 

 •25 to '4 in. in diam., white, glabrous, solitary or in 2 to 3-flowered fasci- 

 cles from tubercles in the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves ; pedicels 

 •5 to 1 in. long, slender, sparsely scurfy, and with several acute bracte- 

 oles. Sepals rotund, fleshy with thin edges, united at the base. Petals 

 oblong-obovate, emarginate, united below, larger than the sepals. Sta- 

 mens 25 to 30, attached to the base of the corolla : anthers oblong-ovate, 

 curved, the dehiscence sutural, not apiculate ; filaments short. Ovary 

 hemispheric, pubescent. Styles 3 to 5, united in the lower half. Fruit 

 covered by the accrescent calyx. Seeds ovate, deeply foveolate, pale 

 brown, shining. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. ii, p. 484. ? S. Noronhiana, 

 Bl. Bijdr. 126. 



Perak 800 to 3,500 feet, common. Distrib. Sumatra and Java. 



This differs from S. tristyla in its rotund sepals, larger flowers, pu- 



