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within, ovate-acute, valvate, without spines externally. Petal 1, as 

 long as calyx-lobes, densely hairy. Staminal-sh.Q&th and filaments 

 declinate hairy. Ovary very hirsute, oblique; style twisted, stigma 

 capitate. Pod not yet known. Galedupa velutina Prain MSS. 

 Malacca ; Maingay 607 ! 



Of this very distinct species the only specimens hitherto collected are Main- 

 gay's. One of these has been very kindly placed at Dr. King's disposal, for purposes 

 of description, by the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. There is no doubt 

 as to its affinity being greatest, as Mr. Baker has already indicated, with 8. inter- 

 media, and though it is as yet impossible to say if the pod is marked by the presence 

 or absence of spines, it is very probable, from the obliquity of the ovary, that it 

 has a transverse pod like S. intermedia and S. sumatrana. 



5. Sindora coriacea Prain. A large tree with glabrous branches. 

 Leaves equally piunate with glabrous rachis 5-6 in. long, stipules small; 

 leaflets 4-jugate, oblong, apex rounded or subacute, base round or slightly 

 cuneate, 2-3 in. long, 1'25-1'5 in. wide, the lowest pair rather the small- 

 est, very coriaceous, shining glabrous above, dull glabrous beneath, 

 nerves numerous close horizontal slightly irregular, very faint, petiolules 

 •15 in. glabrous. Flowers in axillary and terminal lax panicles 8-10 in. 

 long, 4 in. wide ; individual racemes 2 in. long, with straight, thinly rusty - 

 puberulous, spreading rachis ; flowers spirally disposed, bracts and 

 bracteoles not seen, pedicels thinly rusty, 2 in., buds oblong, thinly rusty, 

 *25 in. long. Galyx-tuhe short, lobes 4, thick, "2 in. long, very faintly 

 imbricated ; spineless externally. Petal 1. Staminal-she&th and fila- 

 ments hairy. Pod broadly oblong, bubequally rounded at base so that 

 the strong slightly recurved beak, *3 in. long, continues the direction of 

 the stalk, tip subobliquely cuneate, tapering abruptly on the dorsal, 

 slightly rounded on the ventral suture, 3 in. long, 2*25 in. across ; valves 

 dehiscent, glabrous, woody, unarmed. Seeds 2-3, funicle thick arillate. 

 Afzelia? coriacea Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 275. Intsia coriacea 

 Maingay MSS. Galedupa coriacea Prain MSS. 



Malacca; Chaban, Maingay 566! Ridley 2328 ! Penang ; Tulloh 

 Bah an g, Curtis 430 ! 



This fine tree is said by Mr. Ridley to be the " Sapetir " of Malacca ; this 

 name, it will be noticed, is used in Pangkor for the nearly allied but quite distinct 8. 

 intermedia. Mr. Curtis says it is known in Penang as " Mirbau ;" the " Mirba.u" 

 of the Mainland, it will be observed, is Afzelia palembanica. 



Of the specimens referred to, the writer has only seen leaves of Maingay's, and 

 only fruits of Curtis' and of Ridley's gatherings. The description of the flowers is 

 therefore constructed from the characters stated and implied in the- brief des- 

 cription of the Flora of British India. The number of stamens mentioned by 

 Maingay, still more their monadelphous nature, makes it certain that the plant can 

 be no Afzelia and goes to indicate that it is a species of Sindora ; the fruiting speci- 

 mens sent by Mr. Curtis and Mr. Itidley show that this is really the case. 



