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produced above the seed-cavity into a much elongate leathery wing, 

 1-celled, 1 seeded, dehiscing vertically into 2 valves. Seed solitary, 

 large, compressed, exalbuminous. — Distrib. Four species, Malayan and 

 Polynesian, 



The differences between the genera Smytliea and Ventilago lie entirely in the 

 fruit. Both have 2-celled ovaries with two styles, and in both only one ovule 

 becomes a seed. In both the epicarp of the fruit is prolonged above the apex of 

 the seed-chamber into a long coriaceous wing with a vertical midrib. In Ventilago 

 the fruit never dehisces, and the wing never divides. In Smythea the seed-cluim- 

 ber dehisces vertically along its dissepiment, and the wing separates to some 

 extent, from below upwards and along the mesial line, into two pieces. In Venti- 

 Ingo the mesial line has the appearance of the midrib of a leaf, being quite single : 

 in SmytJiea the mesial line consists, in its lower part at least, of two parallel sets 

 of fibro-vascular bundles. 



Leaves entire, much and conspicuously reti- 

 culate ... ... ... ... 1. S. reticulata. 



Leaves serrate, widest above the middle ; disc 



and ovary glabrous ... ... ... 2. 8. macrocarpa. 



Leaves remotely crenate-serrate, widest below 



the middle ; disc and ovary minutely tomentose 3. S. calpicarpa. 



1. Smythea reticulata, King n. sp. Young branches puberu- 

 lous. Leaves ovate-elliptic or lanceolate, shortly acuminate, entire, with 

 minutely cordate or rounded bases, glabrous, shining and minutely 

 reticulate on both sides ; main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, faint ; length 2 to 3 

 in., breadth "8 to 1"5 in. ; petiole '1 in., glabrous. Fascicles 12-to 15- 

 flowered; flowers "15 in. in diam. Galyx sparsely pubescent outside, 

 glabrous inside, its lobes erect, neither lobed nor pitted. Ovary tomentose. 

 Fruit lanceolate, acuminate, minutely cinereous-tomentose, 2 in. long and 

 •8 in. broad. 



Singapore: Ridley, No. 3592. Johore : Ridley, 1917. Perak : 

 Scortechini, No. 1008. 



Distinguished by its entire perfectly glabrous very reticulate 

 leaves, glabrous petiole, hairy ovary, and lanceolate acuminate fruit. 



2. Smythea macrocarpa, Hemsley in Hook. Ic. PL t. L558. Young 

 branches slender, rufous-puberulous. Leaves oblong- oblanceolate to 

 obovate-elliptic, acuminate, serrate, narrowed to the slightly oblique 

 base; both surfaces glabrous; main nerves 6 to. 9 pairs, slightly 

 curved, ascending; length 25 to 5 or even 7 in,, breadth 1 to 1*5 or 

 even 2 in. ; petiole "1 to '2 in. or none. Fascicles about 10-flowered ; 

 the flowers "15 in. in diam., pedicellate. Calyx sparsely pubescent 

 outside, glabrous inside ; its 5 lobes triangular, thick. Disc glabrous, 

 neither lobed nor pitted. Ovary glabrous. Fruit leathery, oblong, 

 obtuse, with one stout vertical double line along which dehiscence takes 



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