1897,] G. Kitig^Matei'iaU for a Flora of the Malayan Pmimuhh 279 
3, Parinarium OBLONGiPOLitJM Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IT, 309. A 
treo 50-70 feet high ; young bi-anches lenticellate, deciduonaly piibem- 
lous. Leaves very coriaceous, oblong- or oblong-el I iptio, t he apex enb- 
acute, the base rountled ; upper surface glabrous and shining, the lower 
pale with oblique areolae, pnberulous on the nerpes and midrib \ main 
nerves 25—30 pairs, stout, oblique, rather stmigbt; length 5-5-8'5 iu,, 
breadth l'85-3 iu. ; petiole *35-"65 in.^ stout. Panicles axillary and 
terminal, solitary, many-flowered, spreading, miautely tawny-tomentose, 
3^ in, across. Flotoem 2 in. long, on very short pedicels; bmcts 
ovate-rotuud, concare, acute, tomentose. €ali/x-tiihe infutidibuliform, 
snbgibboua, miuutoly tomentose outside, deflexed-villous inside, lobes 
broadly ovate, acute. Pencil* nob longer than the calyx-lobes, spathulate, 
glabrous. Stametm 8, about as long as tlie petals, Ovm^j villous ; style 
sparsely pubescent. Friiil elliptic-ovoid, obtuse, compreseedj densely 
ooated with grey hard scui'f, 2-75 in. long and ]'5 in. in diam- 
Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay 623. Pahakg ; Ridley 5026. Perak j 
King's Colkctor 10369, 10422. 
A apeciea readily diitringuished by ite large oblong fruit, largo leaves with 
ncimeroos parallel nerres prominent on tbe lower Burfucej, and aninll flowers with the 
Btamene nnd petals nqt longer than the calyjt-lobeB, It approach ea P. *!iima/.ranttf», 
Miq. in its leaves, bat the nndGr-flnrfaco in that species io auiformly and minntefy 
tomentose, whereas in this the nnder snrfhce baa very pecnlitir oblique areolae and 
there ia no tomentmn- The fruits of the two differ also in sise. 
4. Parinauium spicatum, Ki»g, n. sp. A tree 60 to SO feet high ; 
branches slender, dark-coloured, puberalous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic- 
ovate, shoi'tly and broadly acurairiate, the base rounded but aliglitly pro- 
duced along the sides of the upper half of the petiole ; botb surfaces 
reticulate when dry ; the upper glabrous, shilling; the lower slightly dtiU 
and paler, rainulely pustulate, glabrous except tbe spai-selystrigose mid- 
rib ; main nerves about 12 pairs, spreading^ faint ; length 2-3 in., breadth 
'85-1*6 in., petiole '1 in. Spikes axillaiy and terminal^ about as long as 
tbe leaves, in clusters of 2 or 3, everywhere tawny-pubescent with many 
adpressed hairs intermixed. Flmvt^s 5 in, Iong» solitary, rather dis- 
tant, sessile, bibracteate at the base ; the bracts much shorter than the 
flower, oblong, subaeute, tomentose, CrtZr/.r-fwije narrowly funnel-shaped, 
slightly gibbous, toraentose outside, rfefiesed -villous in its upper part 
inside ; its lobes broadly oblong, obtuse, dt-flexed. Fetah longer than 
the calyx-lubes, broadly elliptic, very obtuse, glabrous. Stamens about 
10, longer than the petals, shoi'ter than the pistil ; the filaments glab- 
rous, onited at the veiy base. Omry sericeous j style sparsely liBiry in 
its lower half, otherwise glabrous. FruU about 1 in. in diam,, sub- 
orbicular, slightly compressed, densely covered with a yellowish cnista- 
ceous scurf, 2-celled ; the pericarp '2 in, thick, tomentose inside. 
