FariMfvrivm.'l hi. EOSAOEiE. (J. J). Hooker.) 311 



and rachis densely clothed with soft yellowish tomentum ; bracts oblong, obtuse. 

 Flowers sessile, \ in. long. Cah/x.-tuhe clavate, gibbous, clothed with, silky hairs 

 outside, and with long deflexed hairs inside ; lobes broadly ovate, obtuse. Petah 

 obovate, sessile, nearly glabrous. Stamens 12-15, | in. long, ciroinnately iucuryed,- 

 united at the base into a unilateral ring which is deficient opposite the single carpel. 

 Ovary densely woolly, imperfectly 2-c6lled; style very long and slender, stigma 

 minute. Drupe the size of a small apple, spherical, very hard ; outer surface rough 

 and rust-coloured ; endocarp 1 in. thick, bony ; cavity smooth with a fiirrow down one 

 side and a few very stout sparingly branched raised veins. Seed large, testa thin ; 

 embryo with the cotyledons consolidated into a ruminated mass. 



** Leaves obscurely 2-glandular at the base. 



f. P. indicum, Sedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 109; Flor. Sylvat. t. 191; 

 leaves elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous, nerves 8-10 pair, racemes tomentose. En- 

 tosiphon, Bedd. in Mad. Joum. lAtt. Ser. 3. i. 44. 



■Wbstekn- Peninsula; Wynad, in moist woods, alt. 2-3000 ft., Beddome. 



A middling sized tree. Leaves 8-9 by 3 in., slightly undulate ; nerves strong 

 beneath, much arched ; petiole very short. Sacemes axijlary and terminal, simple, 

 stout, rarely divided at the base. Flowers shortly pedicelled, ^-§ in. long. Calyx- 

 titbe campanulate ; lobes ovate, acute. Petals ovate, sessile, shorter than the calyx- 

 lobes. Stamens 12-16, unilateral, twice as long as the calyx-lobes. Ovary hairy, 

 '2-celled. 



8. P. travancoricum, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 189 ; leaves lanceolate 

 glabrous, nerves 12-16 pair, racemes silky. 



Western Peninsula, near Courtallum, alt. 2000 ft., Beddome. 



A small graceful tree, young parts grey, silky ; branohlets very slender. Leaves 

 4-5 by 1-1 J in., obtusely acuminate; margins waved; nerves beneath silky when 

 young, finally glabrous ; petiole very short. Bacemes 1-2 in., few-flowered, simple 

 or branched at the base, drooping, silky. Flowers A in. long. Calyx-tvbe campanu- 

 late ; lobes ovate, acute. Petals broadly ovate, obtuse, equalling or exceeding the 

 calyx -lobes. Stainems 10-12, unilateral, filaments three times as long as the calyx- 

 lobes. Ovary hairy, 2-celled. 



DOUBTFUL, EXCLUDED AND IMPEEFBCTLT KNOWN SPECIES. 



P. Wallichianum, Wall. Cat. 7520 ; consists of branches with leaves only 

 of a most conspicuousj plant from Sincapore, which I suspect is a Dipteroearpus. 

 Branchlets very stout and leaves beneath clothed most densely with appressed 

 snow-white almost silvery tomentum ; leaves 8-14 by 3-6 in., oblong, abruptly 

 acuminate, rounded at the base, quite entire; nerves 30-35 pair, spreading; 

 upper surface shining ; petiole very short and stout ; stipules sheathing, 1 in. long, 

 membranous. — Sincapore. A lofty tree ( WalUch), 



P. Heleebi, Hook. f. ; branchlets slender clothed with soft rusty tomentum. 

 leaves elliptic-oblong acuminate membranous white and downy beneath, nerves 

 about 12 pair, flowers minute in small softly tomentose panicles, calyx-tube shortly 

 campanulate, stamens 6-7. P. sumatranum, Kwrz, For. Mor. Brit. Burm. i. 433, not 

 o/Benth.? 



Tenassehim, Heifer. 



Leaves 3-4 in., base rounded or acute ; petiole and midrib beneath when young 

 clothed with rusty soft wool ; whole undersurface clothed with loose snow-white 

 tomentum when young, hoary when old ; nerves spreading, slender. Panicle 1 in. 

 long. Flowers j^ in., very shortly pedicelled. Cah/x-lobes short, rounded. 

 Petals very small, ovate. Stamens equalling the calyx-lobes. — I have seen but one 

 specimen. 



P. ? A species, apparently allied to P. Hdferi, collected by Griffitll on hills 



