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are subsessile. In their leaves the Malacca and Beuitenzorg specimens 

 closely resemble each other, but the panicles of the latter are much 

 larger than those of the former. I think it possible therefore that, 

 when better specimens of the Malacca plant are collected, other char- 

 acters may be found, which will prove that it is not really the same as 

 £. Schwenkii, T. and .B. 



2. Swintonia Penangiana, King n. sp. A tall tree : yoang 

 branches slender, glaucous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, rarely 

 ovate-lanceolate, tapering from the middle to the shortly bluntly acumi- 

 nate apex and to the cuneate base ; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spread- 

 ing, faint on both surfaces, the reticulations obsolete : length 3 to 4'5 

 in., breadth pi to 14 in. ; petiole '75 to 125 in., slender, but slightly 

 thickened near the base. Panicles axillary and terminal, as long as or 

 longer than the leaves, pedunculate, slender, glabrous: the branches 

 lax, spreading, the flowers in ultimate cymules of about three. Flowers 

 *15 in. long ; their pedicels slender, longer than themselves. Calyx 

 narrowly campanulate, with 5 broad subtruncate sub-ciliate lobes. Petals 

 5, longer than the calyx, sub-erect, oblong, obtuse, minutely tomentose 

 with glabrous margins. Stamens 5 ; the anthers elliptic, dorsifixed, 

 the filaments slender. Disc thin, cylindric. Ovary obliquely ovoid, 

 pubescent, tapering into the short sub-terminal style, stigma rather 

 large for the genus. Drupe globular, glabrous, smooth, '5 in. in diarn., 

 the reflexed accrescent petals narrowly oblong, sub-acute, about 135 in. 

 long and '3 in. wide, glabrescent. 



Penang: Curtis, No. 1579. 



A species allied to S. floribunda, Griff., but with shorter panicles, 

 and globular not oblong, fruit. The leaves of this moreover are more 

 coriaceous and have fewer nerves than these of S. floribunda. 



3. Swintonia SPICIFERA, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 27. A lofty 

 tree : young branches smooth, reddish when fresh. Leaves coriaceous, 

 oblanceolate or elliptic-obovate, the apex sub-acute or obtuse, the base 

 attenuate-cuneate ; upper surface shining, not reticulate, the lower pale 

 brown when dry and glaucous : main nerves 13 to 20 pairs, obsolete on 

 the upper and only slightly prominent on the lower surface, spreading, 

 slightly curved ; length 325 to 4*5 in., breadth 1*5 to 1*75 in. ; petiole 

 •6 to 1'25 in. Panicles crowded near the ends of the branches, long- 

 pedunculate, exceeding the leaves ; the branchlets articulate, corvmbosely 

 crowded and trichotomously branched, augled, puberulous. Flowers "2 in. 

 long, each on a pubescent pedicel embraced by a broadly-ovate 

 concave puberulous bracteole. Calyx fleshy, tubular, with 5 deep 

 quadrate segments, puberulous outside, glabrous inside. Petals 5, twice 

 as long as the calyx, thick, obovate-obloug, obtuse, concave, shortly 



