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slightly piorninent ou the upper, spreading, interarchiug near the edge: 

 length 4 to 7-5 in,, breadth 2 to 3'25 in. ; petiole -Ts" to 1-5 or even 2 

 in., thickened near the base. Payiides usually terminal, pedunculate, 

 longer than the leaves, puberulous ; the brandies slender, long, lax, 

 sub-erect; the branchlets short and bearing the flowers in ratlier 

 crowded ultimate fascicles. Flowers -15 in. in diam., on pedicels shorter 

 than themselves. Mal-r floweus ; calyx cupular, flat, with 5 ovate acute 

 spreading teeth, glabrous; petah 5, ovate-lanceolate, acute, several 

 times longer than the calyx, glabrous : stamnu 5, shorter than the 

 petals; the cells of the anthers divergent, the filaments flattened; disc 

 fleshy, flat, with a small concave pitj puberulous. FE^fALE flowees on 

 smaller fewer-flowered panicles; the flowers themselves larger than 

 the males ; calyx as in the male ; petals broader and more fleshy. 

 Stamens 5, short and rudimentary, each rising from one of the angles 

 of the cupular fleshy 5 angled glabrous disc. Ovary tomentose, conical, 

 slightly oblique, its base surrounded by the disc. Styles 3, horizontal 

 or depressed, radiating. Drupe (young) obliquely ovoid, compressed, 

 the enlarged peduncle about a third of its lengtii, rusty-puberulous. 



Perak: King's Collector, Nos. 5256, 5377, 541.4, 5470, 6895. 



5. Semecaepus Prainii, King n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet high ; 

 young branches rather stout, deciduously puberulous. Leaves oblong- 

 oblanceolate to obovate-oblong, shortly and abruptly acuminate, the 

 edges slightly undulate, gradually narrowed from the upper third 

 to the rather short petiole ; both surfaces glabrous and minutely 

 though distinctly reticulate, the upper pale-greenish when dry, the lower 

 pale brown ; main nerves 18 to 24 pairs, prominent on the lower sur- 

 face, slightly so on the upper, the lower pairs sub-horizontal, the upper 

 spreading and curving upwards ; length 5 to 10 in., breadth 1*5 to 3*25 

 in. ; petiole '5 to '8 in. Panicle terminal, pedunculate, glabrous below, 

 pubescent towards the extremities, longer than the leaves ; the branches 

 numerous, slender, with many branchlets, the ultimate branchlets 

 cyniulose. Flowers rather crowded, almost sessile, globular in bud, 

 about 'I in. in diam. when expanded. Calyx cupular, puberulous, ratlier 

 coriaceous, with 5 broadly-ovate obtuse ciliate spreading segments. 

 Petals 5, imbricate, longer than the calyx, glabrous, broadly ovate, acute. 

 Stamens 5, shorter than the petals. Disc fleshy, convex, dark-coloured, 

 with a tuft of hairs in the middle ;, ovary in the male flower absent. 

 Drupe obliquely obovoid, compressed, glabious, about "5 in. long and -65 

 in. broad ; the enlarged peduncle obconic, '35 in. long, glabrous. S. 

 heterophyllus, Hook. fil. (not of Blume) Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 35. 



Barren and Little Cocos Islands ; Prain. Andan.ans : Frain, King's 

 Collectors. Perak : King's Collector, No. 7442 Andamans : Heifer, 

 No. 1131. 



