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loped by the calyx-tube, striate, minutely pubescent, -6 in. long, '4 in. 

 wide at the apex. Seeds narrowly ellipsoid, tapering much to the apex ; 

 the testa thick, white, iridescent, with elongate reticulations. Clarke in 

 Hook, fill Fl. Br. Ind. II, 428. 



Penang ; Maingay 1513 ; Curtis 659. Peeak ; Scortechini 819 ; 

 King's Collector 7330. 



2. Bucklandia, Br. 



A tall glabrous tree. Leaves alternate, acuminate, entire, Iong- 

 petioled ; stipules solitary or in pairs, large, oblong, coriaceous, decidu- 

 ous. Inflorescence of 2-5 peduncled heads, at first enclosed between a 

 pair of stipules ; flowers adnate by their calyces, about 8 in a head, 

 polygamous. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; limb 5-lobed. Petals in 

 the <jf flower linear-spathulate, fleshy, variable in number ; in the $ fl. 

 rudimentary. Stamens 10-14 (in the $ none) ; filaments long. Ovary 

 half-inferior, 2-celled ; styles 2, separate, soon divaricate ; ovules in 

 each cell 6 in two rows. Capsule nearly superior, woody, subglobose \ 

 endocarp horny, showing a tendency to separate from the exocarp. 

 Seeds in each cell 6, oblong, trigonous ; the upper wingless, solid, with- 

 out any embryo, the lower one in each cell winged and fertile. 



Bucklandia popdlnea, R. Brown in Wall. Cat. 7414. Leaves 

 broadly ovate sub-reniform or sub-orbicular, the apex acuminate or 

 tricuspidate, the edges entire ; the base broad and rounded, subcordate 

 or truncate, or narrowed and cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous ; the lower 

 sometimes pubescent on the nerves; main nerves 5-7, radiating palmately 

 from the base, the lower on each side slender, prominent on the lower 

 surface; length 2'5-6*f» in., breadth 1 '5-7 in. ; petiole '8-3 in., usually 

 glabrous but sometimes pubescent; stipules oblong, sub-falcate, obtuse, 

 •9-125 in. long, slightly pubescent at the base, breadth *25-45 in. 

 Griff, in Asiat. Res. XIX, 95, with two plates ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. II, 429. B. populijolia, H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. II, 86 ; 

 Kurz Forest Fl. Brit. Burma, I, 445. Liquidambar tricuspis, Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 1097 ; and Suppl. 346, with a figure. 



Perak ; Scortechini; on Gunong Inas, elevat. 5000 feet, Wray 

 4151 ; on Ulu Batang Padang, about 3900 feet, Wray 1535. Distrib. The 

 temperate Himalaya from Nepal to Bhotan, elevat. 5000-8000 ft. ; 

 Khasia Hills 4000-6000 feet ; Burma, Java, Sumatra. 



None of the Perak specimens have flowers or fruit. Scortechini's have leaves 

 in no way differing from those from the Himalaya and Khasia mountains, except 

 that the main nerves and petioles, even when old, are pubescent. Wray's speci- 

 mens, on the other hand, havo smaller ovate leaves, rarely tri-cuspidate and never 

 Sub-rotund or reniform; their petioles are sometimes slightly hairy, but their main 



