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larger flowers on longer peduncles : but in other respects they agree with 

 the Java plant. This species is readily distinguished by its enormously 

 large, solitary, woody carpels. 



4. Talatjma Juss. 

 Trees or shinibs. Leaves and inflorescence of Magnolia. Sepals 3. 

 Petals 6 or more, in 2 or more whorls. Stamens very numerous, many- 

 seriate : anthers linear, introrse. Oynophore sessile. Ovaries inde- 

 finite, 2-ovuled, spiked or capitate : stigmas decurrent. Carpels woody, 

 separating from the woody axis at the ventral suture, and dehiscing so 

 as to leave the seeds suspended from the axis by an elastic cord. Seeds 

 of Magnolia. Distrib. Tropics of Eastern Asia, & South America : Japan, 

 Species about 18. 



1. T. LANiGERA, Hook. fil. & Th. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 40. A small tree. 

 Young leaves, petioles and branches, the peduncles, outer surface of the 

 stipular involucre enveloping the calyx, and the ovaries densely fulvous- 

 tomentose. Leaves sub-coriaceous, oblong or oblanceolate, abruptly 

 and shortly acuminate, narrowed at the base, when adult shining and 

 glabrous except on the lower half of the midrib below ; length of blade 9 

 to 12 in., breadth 2'5 to 4 in. ; petiole 1 to 1'5 in., thickened below. 

 Sepals and petals white, ovate, tomentose at the very base. Bipe frnit 

 3 to 4 in. long by 2 in. broad ; the carpels glabrescent when quite ripe, 

 beaked, I'o in. long. 



In open forest on low hills ; Perak and Malacca. 



From Miquel's description of his T. villosa, (Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 

 366,) that species and this must bo very closely allied ; and, if they 

 are ideutical, Miquel's name, dating 1860, must take precedence of Hf. 

 & T.'s, which was published in 1875. 



2. T. Andamanica, King, n. sp. A glabrous shmb or small tree. 

 Leaves sub-coriaceous, oblanceolate-oblong, rarely lanceolate, the apex 

 (usaally rather abruptly) acute, below gradually narrowed to the petiole ; 

 both surfaces shining ; main nerves 10 to 14 pairs, thin but prominent 

 below; length of blade 7 to 10 in., breadth 2-5 to 3 5 in. ; petiole -5 to 1 

 in., expanded at the base. Floivers solitai'y, sub-globose, I'S in. long : 

 on thick terminal annulated pubescent peduncles 1 in. long : stipular 

 hood of calyx glabrous. Sepals 3. Petals 6 ovate or obovato. Jiipn 

 fruit globose, pyriform, 1'6 in. long ; the individual carpels rhomboid, 

 6 in. long and nearly as broad, shortly beaked : seeds '4 in. long. 



Andaman Islands, on Mount Harriet. 



In leaf this closely resembles T. Rahaniana, H. f. and Tb., but has 

 smaller flowers and frait. The individual carpels of this are not moro 

 than a third the size of those of T. Babaniana, which are more than 

 1 inch long and narrowly oblong and not rhomboidal. 



