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slightly prominent on the upper, spreading, interarching near the edge : 

 length 4 to 7"5 in., breadth 2 to 3*25 in. ; petiole "75 to 1*5 or even 2 

 iu thickened near the base. Panicles usually terminal, pedunculate, 

 longer than the leaves, puberulous ; the branches slender, long, lax, 

 sub-erect; the brauchlets short and bearing the flowers in rather 

 crowded ultimate fascicles. Flowers '15 in. in diam., on pedicels shorter 

 than themselves. Male flowers ; calyx cupular, flat, with 5 ovate acute 

 spreading teeth, glabixms ; petals 5, ovate-lanceolate, acute, several 

 times longer than the calyx, glabrous : stamens 5, shorter than the 

 petals; the cells of the anthers divergent, the filaments flattened; disc 

 fleshy, flat, with a small concave pit, puberulous. Female flowebs on 

 smaller fewer-flowered panicles; the flowers themselves larger than 

 the males ; calyx as in the male ; petals broader and more fleshy. 

 Stamens 5, short and rudimentary, each rising from one of the angles 

 of the cupular fleshy 5-angled glabrous disc. Ovary tomentose, conical, 

 slightly oblique, its base surrounded by the disc. Styles 3, horizontal 

 or depressed, radiating. Drupe (young) obliquely ovoid, compressed, 

 the enlarged peduncle about a third of its length, rusty-puberulous. 



Perak: King's Collector, Nos. 5256, 5377, 5414, 5470, 6895. 



5- Sehecaepus Peainii, King n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet high ; 

 young branches rather stout, deciduously puberulous. Leaves oblong- 

 oblanceolate to obovate-oblong, shortly and abruptly acuminate, the 

 edges slightly undulate, gradually narrowed from the upper third 

 to the rather short petiole ; both surfaces glabrous and minutely 

 though distinctly reticulate, the upper pale-greenish when dry, the lower 

 pale brown ; main nerves 18 to 24 pairs, prominent on the lower sur- 

 face, slightly so on the upper, the lower pairs sub-horizontal, the upper 

 spreading and curving upwards ; length 5 to 10 in., breadth 1*5 to 3'25 

 in. ; petiole *5 to "8 in. Panicle terminal, pedunculate, glabrous below, 

 pubescent towards the extremities, longer than the leaves ; the branches 

 numerous, slender, with many branchlets, the ultimate brauchlets 

 cymulose. Flowers rather crowded, almost sessile, globular in bud, 

 about *1 in. in diam. when expanded. Calyx, cupular, puberulous, rather 

 coriaceous, with 5 broadly-ovate obtuse ciliate spreading segments. 

 Petals 5, imbricate, longer than the calyx, glabrous, broadly ovate, acute. 

 Stamens 5, shorter than the petals. Disc fleshy, convex, dark-coloured, 

 with a tuft of hairs in the middle ; ovary in the male flower absent. 

 Drupe obliquely obovoid, compressed, glabrous, about -5 in. long and 65 

 in. broad ; the enlarged peduncle obconic, '35 in. long, glabrous. S. 

 heterophyllus, Hook. fil. (not of Blume) Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 35. 



Barren and Little Cocos Islands ; Pram. Audamans : Pram, King's 

 Collectors. Perak : King's Collector, No. 7442 Andamans : Heifer, 

 No. 1131. 



