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ceiice of the under surface of the leaves in tliis species there is some 

 diversity, many specimens having the under surface covered with a 

 dense and uniform layer of rusty toinentum, while in other specimens 

 the lower surface of the leaves and the petioles are glabrescent. The 

 species was named by Father Scortechini to commemorate his friend, 

 the Revd. Father Tennison Woods, who died of an illness contracted 

 during his exploration of the physiograpliy of the central mountainous 

 range of the Malayan Peninsula. 



4. Melanorrhcea Curtisii, Oliver in Hook, Ic. Plantar, t. J 5 13. 

 A tree 40 to 80 feet high : young branches very slender. Leaves 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, or shortly and 

 bluntly acuminate, the base cuneate, both surfaces quite glabrous and 

 without scales or dots ; main nerves 12 to 16 pairs, spreading, curving, 

 faint; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 125 to 2 in.; petiole '5 to '75 in. 

 Panicles slender, open, axillary and terminal, pedunculate, much longer 

 than the leaves ; the branches opposite or sub-opposite, distant, lax, 

 each bearing several ultimate few-flowered branchlets near the apex, 

 puberulous close to the flowers, otherwise quite glabrous; hracteoles 

 small, ovate-lanceolate, caducous. Flowers *25 in. long, on puberulous 

 pedicels, the buds narrow. Calyx with dark nerves. Petals 5, linear, 

 puberulous outside, contorted in aestivation. Stamens 10, a little 

 shorter than the petals, glabrous; the filaments slender ; the anthers small, 

 oval. Disc pubescent. Ovary obliquely ovoid, stalked, glabrous. Style 

 sub-terminal. Drupe depressed-globose, '5 to '75 in. in diam., its stalk 

 •35 in. ; the enlarged petals leathery, linear-oblanceolate, lib to 2'5 in. 

 long. M. Duthieana, Scort. MSS. in Herb. Calcutta. 



Penang : Curtis, 'No. 242 ; King's Collector, No. 1635. Perak : 

 King's Collector, No. 6887. Kedah : Ridley, No. 5359. 



The late Father Scortechini notes on this that the stamens are 

 occasionally 8 instead of 10. 



5. Melanorhhcea torquata. King n. sp, A tree 80 to 100 feet 

 high : young branches stout, and with rough rather pale brown bark. 

 Leaves coriaceous, obovate, with broad rounded apices, sub-undulate 

 edges, and sharply cuneate bases ; both surfaces glabrous, the upper 

 'with the reticulations almost obsolete, the midrib very broad and flat ; 

 the lower with the transverse veins rather distinct, the midrib sharply con- 

 vex ; main nerves 22 to 26 pairs, rather faint on the upper surface when 

 dry, very distinct on the lower, spreading and rather straight ; length 

 7 to 11 in., breadth 4 to 625 in.; petiole '25 to '35, stout. Panicles 

 terminal, branching from the very base, densely and minutely tawny- 

 tomentose; the branches spreading, naked below but with many branchlets 

 toward the apex, the ultimate branchlets cymulose. Flowers '25 in. 



