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89. Payena paralleloneura, n. sp. 



Arbor ingens, ramulis subtiliter ferrugineo-puberis ; folia ellip- 

 tica ad elliptico-lanceolata, petiolis circ. poll, longis, gracilibus, gla- 

 bres-centibus, suffulta, breviter acuminata, 3-4 poll, longa, tenui 

 corvacea, glabra, nervis lateralibus teimibus parallelis sub an- 

 gulo fere recto divergentibus ; flores mediocres, albi, pedunculis circ. 

 poll, longis, minute fulvescente-puberis suffulti, 3 — 7-ni fasciculati ; 

 fasciculi axillares, petioli longitudine v. paulum longiores ; calyx 

 minute fulvescente-puberus, 4-partitus, sepalis lato-ovatis, acutis, 

 circ. 3 lin. longis ; corolla glaberrima, lobis elliptico-oblongis obtu- 

 sis ; stamina 16, antheris glabris, aristato-mucronatis ; ovarium 

 fulvescente pubescens ; baccee ovatee, pruni magnitudine, apicu- 

 latse, glabrae, 1- raro 2- spermae. — Pegu. Differs from P. lucida by 

 the acute sepals, the bristly-terminated (not beaked) anthers, 

 by the longer petiols and by the nervature of the leaves. 



90. Mimtjsops Indica, (Kurz, in And. Eep. 42, et DC. quoad spe- 

 cim. Martahanica). 



This is the well-known Andaman bullet-wood, but there 

 are considerable difficulties in giving the tree a proper scien- 

 tific name. Mr. Bentham has identified it with his M. Browniana. 

 The description of the fruit and seed of the Australian M. 

 Browniana appears to me to differ considerably from the Andaman 

 species. In the former the fruit is said to be ovoid or almost 

 globular and 1-2 seeded, while in the latter it is decidedly 

 dej^ressed globular (not unlike in shape and size to a wood-apple), 

 5-6 seeded, and the hilum hardly half the length of the seed. I have 

 unfortunately no specimens from Ceylon, and therefore I am unable 

 to compare my plant with If. Kaulci L. Bentham, who has seen 

 the Linnean specimens of M. Kauhi, declares them to be Jf. Indica, 

 &c, (Wight Icon., t. 1587), a common species all over Hindustan. 

 The very short Linnean description, however, represents more the 

 Andaman tree with solitary flowers than the Hindustan tree, which 

 latter is the same as M. hexandra, Houb., Corom., PI. I, 16, t. 15, 

 differing from the former considerably by the 1 -seeded, differently 

 shaped, fruits and by the flowers being always two or more toge- 

 ther in the axils of the leaves. 



M. Kauki, Houb., and Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat., II, 1042, is undoubted- 

 ly M. Bojeri, &c. ( ? = 31. dissecta> Hook. Bot. Mag., t. 3157). 



