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are subsessile. In their leaves the Malacca and Beuitenzorg specimens 

 closely resemble each other, but the panicles of the latter ai-e much 

 larger than those of the former. I think it possible therefore that, 

 when better specimens of the Malacca plant are collected, other char- 

 acters may be found which will prove that it is not really the same as 

 S. Schwenkii, T. and B. 



2. SwiNTONiA Penangiana, King n. sp. A tall tree : young 

 branches slender, glaucous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, rarely 

 ovate-lanceolate, tapering from the middle to the shoitly bluntly acumi- 

 nate apex and to the cuneate base; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spread- 

 ing, faint on both surfaces, the reticulations obsolete : length 3 to 4*5 

 in., breadth 1*1 to 1*4 in. ; petiole •75 to 1-25 in., slender, but slightly 

 thickened near the base. Panicles axillary and terminal, ns long as or 

 longer than the leaves, pedunculate, slender, glabrous: the branches 

 Lix, spreading, the flowers in ultimate cyraules of about three. Flowers 

 •15 in. long ; their pedicels slender, longer than themselves. Calyx 

 narrowly canipanulate, with 5 broad subtruncate sub-ciliate lobes. Petals 

 5, longer than the calyx, sub-erect,. oblong, obtuse, minutely tomentose 

 with glabrous margins. Stame>is 5 ; the anthers elliptic, dorsifixed, 

 the filaments slender. Disc thin, cylindric. Ovary obliquely ovoid, 

 pubescent, tnpering into the shoit sub-terminal style, stigma rather 

 large for the genus. Drwpe globular, glabrous, smooth, '5 in. in diam., 

 the reflexed accrescent petals narrowly oblong, sub-acute, about 1*35 in. 

 long and "3 in. wide, glabrescent. 



Penang: Curtis, No. 1579. 



A species allied to S. jloribunda^ Griff., but with shorter panicles, 

 and globular not oblong, fruit. The leaves of this moreover are more 

 coriaceous and have fewer nerves than these of S . florihunda. 



3. SwiNTONiA spiciFEKA, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 27. A lofty 

 tree : young branches smooth, reddish when fresh. Leaves coriaceous, 

 oblanceolate or elliptic-obovate, the apex sub-acute or obtuse, the base 

 attenuate-cuneate ; upper surface shining, not reticulate, the lower pale 

 brown when dry and glaucous : main nerves 13 to 20 pairs, obsolete on 

 the upper and only slightly prominent on the lower surface, spreading, 

 slightly curved ; length 325 to 4*5 in., breadth 1*5 to 1'75 in. ; petiole 

 •6 to 1*25 in. Panicles crowded near the ends of the branches, long.- 

 pedunculate, exceeding the leaves; the branchlets articulate, corymbosely 

 crowded and trichotomously branched, angled, puberulous. Flowers '2 in. 

 long, each on a pubescent pedicel embraced by a broadly-ovate 

 concave puberulous bracteole. Calyx fleshy, tubular, with 5 deep 

 quadrate segments, puberulous outside, glabrous inside. Petals 5, twice 

 as long as the calyx, thick, obovate-oblung, obtuse, coucave, shortly 



