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beneath ; length 4-6*5 in., breadth l'75-3'25 in., petiole '35-*5 in. 

 Racemes from the axils of fallen leaves, solitary or several together, 

 2 or 3 inches long, slender,, tawny-pubescent. Flowers 15 in. long, on 

 pedicels '1 in. long ; bracts narrowly oblong, sub-acute, Very deciduous. 

 Calyx-tube broadly campanulate, *15 in. wide at the mouth ; teeth about 

 6, narrowly lanceolate. Petals 6, oblanceolate, obtuse, sericeous outside. 

 Stamens about 80, long-exserted, glabrous. Pistil as long as the 

 stamens ; ovary glabrous ; style slender, straight ; stigma discoid-capi- 

 tate. Fruit transversely oblong, slightly compressed, minutely apiculate, 

 glabrous, but slightly rough, *5 in. long and "8 in. broad. 



Andaman Islands. Distrib. Burma, Chittagong, Assam Range, 

 Eastern Tropical Himalaya. 



7. Pygeum polystachyum, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 320. A tree 

 30-60 feet high ; young branches with dark-coloured glabrous lenti- 

 cellate bark. Leaves very coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, usually with an 

 abrupt obtusely acuminate apex ; the base broad or slightly and sud- 

 denly cuneate and with 2 large thick glands on its upper surface just above 

 the petiole ; upper surface glabrous, shining, pale greenish-brown when 

 dry ; the lower brown when dry, dull, minutely rugulose, glabrous ; main 

 nerves 7-10 pairs, oblique, rather straight, depressed on the upper and 

 prominent on the lower surface ; length 4*5-7 in., breadth 25-4 in., 

 petiole '5 in., stout. Racemes (occasionally racemoid panicles) axillary, 

 shorter than the leaves, slender, covered with short scanty rusty pubes- 

 cence. Floivers about '2 in. long and 25 in. in diam., on pedicels varying 

 from *l--2 in. long; bracts (if any) deciduous. Calyx-tube campanulate, 

 ribbed and tomentose externally, glabrescent within ; lobes 5, oblong, 

 obtuse, rufous-tomentose. Petals 5, like the calyx- lobes. Stamens 40-50, 

 much exserted. Ovary glabrous ; style as long as the stamens, glabrous ; 

 stigma dilated, compressed laterally. Drupe sub-globular or transversely 

 oblong, bluntly apiculate, *65 in. long and from '6-75 in. broad, glabrous. 

 Seeds glaucous. 



Malacca ; Maingay 627. Singapore ; Ridley 3830, 4453, 4666. 

 Perak ; Scortechini 2045, 2063. Kings Collector 5676, 6603, 5676, 

 6847, 10942 ; Wray 3113, 3384. 



This species is very near P. acuminatum, Colebr., of which I believe it to be 

 probably only a southern form. 



8. Pygeum Scortechinii, King n. sp. A slender tree 40-50 feet high ; 

 young branches puberulous, the bark dark-coloured. • Leaves coriaceous, 

 elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate; the base 

 cuneate, eglar.dular ; upper surface shining, glabrous except for occasion- 

 ally a few scattered hairs on the depressed midrib near its base; lower 

 surface pale, not shining, glabrous, minutely rugulose ; main nerves 



