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Griffith's original specimens, to Which he gave the MSS. name P. Ixte-virens, 

 have smaller leaves and more ovoid fruit on shorter pedicels than any specimens 

 subsequently collected. But in other respects they agree with specimens more 

 recently collected in Perak and Penang. 



8. Polyosma velutina, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 261. A 

 small tree ; young branches stout, deciduously tomentose. .Leaves coria- 

 ceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sometimes slightly obovate, sub-acute 

 or obtuse, the base cuneate ; the edges entire, revolute when dry ; upper 

 surface at first with a few scattered adpressed hairs, glabrous when old 

 except the pubescent depressed midrib and main nerves ; lower surface 

 covered with soft velvety yellowish tomentum ; main nerves 9-12 

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

 1*75-325 in., petiole '6-1*5 in. Raceme terminal, about one and a half 

 times as long as the leaves, stout, densely yellowish-tomentose like the 

 calyx. Flowers *4 in. long, their pedicels rather over '1 in., with 3 

 narrow unequal adpressed bracteoles. Calyx-tube tomeutose ; its teeth 

 triangular, acute. Petals narrowly linear, sub-acute, slightly longer 

 than the stamens, much longer than the calyx ; the filaments slightly 

 villous in front, about equal to the anthers. Fruit ovoid, with a broad 

 sub-truncate base, and with an apiculus formed by the remains of the 

 base of the style, boldly 4-ridged, sparsely and deciduously strigose, "4 

 in. long and *3 in. in diam. at the base; the pedicel *2 in.; endocarp 

 woody, deeply 4-grooved. 



Penang ; Curtis 1165 ; King's Collector 1352. Perak ; Scortechiui 

 2111 ; King's Collector 3685, 4362. Distrib. Sumatra, Java. 



I identify the Penang and Perak plants with Blume's P. velutina by description 

 only ; for I have seen no authentic specimen of that species. The deep vertical 

 ridging of the endocarp is noted of no other described species except P. mutabilis, 

 Bl., and I think my identification is correct. 



9. Polyosma Ridleyi, King n. spec. A tree ; young branches 

 densely and minutely tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly-elliptic, 

 caudate-acuminate, the edges entire and slightly revolute when dry, the 

 base cuneate; upper surface when young sparsely adpressed-pubescent, 

 when adult glabrous and shining ; lower surface covered with dense 

 yellowish tomentum ; main nerves 9-11 pairs, spreading, curving and 

 interarching, rather prominent on the lower surface, the intermediate 

 nerves almost as prominent ; length 6-6 5 in., breadth 2-25 in. ; petiole 

 1-1*75 or even 2 in., tomentose. Raceme terminal, stout, shorter than 

 the leaves, densely covered with pale yellowish or whitish tomentum 

 like the calyx and petals. Flowers 4 in. long, their pedicels '1 in., with 

 3 equal lanceolate bracteoles on the same level. Calyx-tube shorter 

 than the pedicel, wide ; the teeth broad, shallow. Petals much longer 

 than the calyx, linear, blunt, villous in front. Stamens nearly as long 



