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1. Ternstrcemia Penangiana, Cboisy Mem. Ternst. 20. A tree 40 

 to 60 feet high : young branches rough, stout, pale brown. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, oblanceolate to obovate, sub-acute or bluntly mucronate, rarely 

 blunt or emarginate, entire, the base narrowed to the petiole; nerves 5 to 

 7 pairs, spreading, invisible when fresh and inconspicuous when dry, the 

 midrib prominent : length 3*5 to 6 in., breadth 1*5 to 2'5 and (in 

 Wallich's specimen) to 4 in., petiole *6 to '75 in. Flowers '8 to 1'25 in. 

 in diam., dioecious, solitary, axillary; pedicels *75 in. long, recurved or 

 straight. Sepals rotund, fleshy with thin edges. Petals much larger 

 than the sepals but similar in texture, rotund with a broad claw, the edges 

 sub-denticulate. Stamens in the male very numerous, crowded, short, (re- 

 duced to filaments in the female) ; connective slightly produced beyond 

 the anther cells, truncate ; ovary globular, its cells biovulate. Stigmas 2, 

 large, reniform, with erose glandular edges. Berry dry with coriaceous 

 epicarp, globulai', 1 to 15 in. in diam., subtended by the thickened rugu- 

 lose connate sepals : Seeds about 4, oblong. Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. I, 281. Kurz For, Fl. Burmah i, 99. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pfc. 2, p. 

 469. Pierre Fl. For. Cooh.-Chine, t. 123. T. macrocarpa, Scheff. Obs. 

 Phyt. i, p. 5. Erythrochiton Wallichianum, Griff. Notul iv. 565, t. 585 

 A, fig. 7. Fagraea dubia, Wall. Cat. 4456. Oarcinia acuminata, Wall. 

 Cat. 4871 A, in part, (fide Hooker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv, 486. 



Penang ; Wallich, Griffith, Curtis. Andamans and Nicobars ; Kurz, 

 King's Collector. Distrib. Java. 



This species was founded by Choisy on the imperfect Wallichian 

 specimens from Penang issued by Wallich as his No. 4456. These 

 specimens consist of leaves and fruit with some imperfect flowers The 

 leaves are obovate, almost rotund, and broader than those of any Tern- 

 strmmia which has been collected since. It is therefore not quite cer- 

 tain that the Andaman andNicobar plant is really the same as Wallich's 

 although in stigma and fruit it agrees. The plant described and figured 

 as T. Penangiana by Pierre (1. c.) is obviously the same as the Andaman 

 and Nicobar species, but whether it is the same as Wallich's No. 4456 I 

 am not prepared to say. 



2. Ternstrcemia Scortechinii, King, n. sp. A tree, 20 to 40 feet 

 high : young branches with pale brownish-grey bark, striate when dry. 

 Leaves coriaceous, verticellate, drying of a pale green, oblanceolate, the 

 apex shortly abruptly and rather bluntly acuminate, narrowed from above 

 the middle to the rather stout short petiole; edges entire ; under surface 

 rather pale ; midrib distinct on both surfaces ; nerves visible on neither • 

 length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1-25 to nearly 2 ia. ; petiole '4 to - 5. Flowers 

 dioecious, '6 to '7 in. in diam., pedunculate, axillary, solitary or in fasci- 

 cles of 2 to 6 ; peduncles slender, compressed, 1 to Vb in. lono-; the 2 



