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dry, glabrous ; the lower paler, faintly reticulate ; main-nerves 5 or 6 

 pairs, curving upwards, prominent and silky on the lower surface, less 

 prominent and glabrous on the upper; length 2*5 to 4 in. ; breadth 1 to 

 2 5; petioles '1 to '3 in. ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, silky, slightly 

 exceeding the petioles. Male cymes 3- to 12-flowered, on peduncles '35 

 to '75 in. long. Female flowers solitary, on peduncles longer than those 

 of the males : the calyx 4-gonous ; suburceolate, the mouth with 4 

 shallow obscure teeth. Corolla hypocrateriform, '3 to '5 in. long, the 

 throat valvate. Anthers slightly exserted. Disk large. Stigmas 4, 

 Fi'uit at first ellipsoid, but when peridepressed-globose, 4-gonous, sub- 

 truncate, about *35 in. across, crowned by the calyx-limb and large disk ; 

 crustaceous ; covered by a smooth pericarp : the placentas 4, cruciate, 

 each bearing about 6 ovules sunk in pits. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 190; 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. Ill, 127. T. flavescens, Bsiker ¥1 Maurit. 144. 

 Nelitris Jambosella, Gaertn. Fruct. I. 134, t. 90 {excl. syn.). Helospora 

 flavescensy Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV. 127, t. 4, f . 3 ; DC. Prod. IV. 

 391 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 234. Eupyrena glabra, W. & A. Prod. 423. 

 Bobea glabra, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 211. Polyphragmon 

 flavescens^ Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 38. Guettarda ? peduncularis, Wall, 

 Oat. 6222; Don. Gen. Syst. III. 551. G, Brunonis and G. missionis 

 Wall. Cat. 6220, 6221. 



In all the provinces: common. — Distrib. Andaman Islands 

 Ceylon, Malay Archipelago. 



VAR. Finlaysoniana ; leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblancolate, shortly 

 acuminate or acute, 3 to 5*5 in. long, the petioles '3 to '6 in. long, fruit, 

 nearly '5 in. in diam. T. Finlaysoniana, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 127. 

 Guettarda Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 6223. G. peduncularis, Wall. Cat. 

 6222. Timonius, Wall. Cat. 8446. 



Singapore : Wallich, G, Thomson, Bidley 2762. Penang : Curtis 

 3388. Perak: Kiitg's Collector 1629, 6209. Andaman Islands: King's 

 Collector. 



2. Timonius Wrayi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 20 to 50 feet 

 high ; young branches as thick as a goose-quill, dark-brown when dry, 

 the leaf- cicatrices large, distinct. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or obovate- 

 elliptic, sometimes rhomboidal, the apex acute, the base much narrowed 

 into the long petiole; upper surface olivaceous-brown when dry, 

 glabrous everywhere and shining ; the lower paler, dull, the nerves and 

 midrib ad pressed rusty- sericeous, otherwise glabrous ; main-nerves 6 or 

 7 pairs, only slightly curved, ascending, very bold on the lower surface 

 like the midrib, somewhat depressed on the upper ; length 5*5 to 8 in. ; 

 breadth 2'25 to 4*5 in. ; petiole -6 to 1*5 in. ; stipules lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, sparsely sericeous, about '5 in. long. Male cymes pedunculate, 

 dichotomous, 6- to 8 -flowered, the branches bracteate, short, spreading. 



