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sab-acute, or shortly and obtusely acuminate, the base cuneate ; both 

 surfaces glabrous, the lower pale and prominently reticulate when dry : 

 main nerves 6 to 9 pairs, slightly prominent beneath, ascending; length 

 4"5 to 8 in., breadth 1*5 to 3 in., petiole; "4 to "6 in. Panicles crowded 

 near the apices of the branches, many-flowered, 2 to 4 in. long. Calyx- 

 lobes deltoid, minutely velvety outside. Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 puberulous externally. Stamens broadly ovoid, minutely but obtusely 

 apiculate. Ovary puberulous : stigma sub-capitate, lobed. Pipe fruit 

 ovoid-globose, about "75 in. in diam., closely embraced by the slightly 

 shorter, much thickened, persistent, fibrous or woody, rugose, enlarged 

 calyx-lobes. V. Wallicliii Dyer in Jouru. Bot. 1878 p. 154. Vatica ruminata, 

 Burck in Ann. Jard. Bot hjuitenzorg, VI, 227 t, 29, fig. 4. 



Penang : Wallich, Cat. No. 9018 ; Curtis Nos. 1161, 1218, 1391. 

 Malacca : Maingay No. 201. Trang, King's Collector. Johore, Hullett 

 and King. Perak : common at low elevations, King's Collector, Scor- 

 techini. DlSTRlB., Bangka. 



In the young stages of the fruit of this species the calyx is quite 

 small and embraces only the very base of it, much as in Isauxis ; but as 

 the fruit expands the calyx grows, so that when ripe the fruit is, with 

 the exception of its apex, closely embraced by the much thickened, 

 lignified, obscurely toothed calyx-tube. This offers, therefore, a transi- 

 tion between Isauxis and Paehynocarpus. And, indeed, it is to the former 

 section that Dyer refers it ( Journ. Bot., 1. a), and to which Burck 

 refers his D. ruminata, a species which authentic specimens shew to be 

 identical with this. Dr. Burck's species, Vatica verrucosa (Ann. Jard. 

 Bot. Buitenzorg) appears also to come very near to this. 



2. Pachynocarpus Stapfianus, King, n. sp. A tree 80 to 100 

 feet high ; young branches rather stout, scaly-pubescent at first, ulti- 

 mately glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, broadly elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 

 the apex broadly rounded, slightly narrowed to the rounded or sub- 

 cuneate base : upper surface glabrous, shining, the lower paler, minutely 

 and sparsely scurfy-puberulous on the midrib and nerves ; main nerves 

 10 to 13 pairs, oblique, prominent on the lower, depressed on the 

 upper, surface ; length 5 to 8 in., breadth 2 - 75 to 4*5 in., petiole '65 

 to 1 in. Flowers unknown. Ripe fruit almost solitary, 2"5 to 3 in. 

 long, on a woody raceme, globular, slightly apiculate, 1*25 in diam., 

 closely invested by the gamosepalous, 5-toothed, thickened, woody, 

 rugose, glaberulous calyx. 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 5932 and 6132, 



This very distinct species was first recognised as a Paehynocarpus 

 by Dr. O. Stapf, of the Kew Herbarium, after whom I have named it. 

 Its flowers are as yet unknown ; but it is readily identified by its leaves. 



