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larger flowers on longer peduncles : but in other respects they agree with 
the Javn phiuL This species is readily distinguished I * y its enormously 
largo, solitary, woody carpels. 
4. Talauma Juss. 
Trees or shrubs. 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 : Btigmas decurrent. Carpels woody, 
separating from the woody axis at the ventral suture, and dehiscing so 
as to leave the seeds suspended from tho 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. Eft Br. Ind. I, 40. A small tree. 
Young leaves, petioles and branches, the pednnclos, outer surface of the 
stipular involucre enveloping the calyx, and the ovaries densely fulvous- 
toraentose. Leaves snb-coriaceons, oblong op oblanceolate, abruptly 
and shortly acuminate, narrowed at the base, when adult shining and 
glabrous except on the lower half of tho 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. Rip*', fruit 
3 to 4 in. long by 2 in. broad ; the carpels glabrescent when quito ripe, 
beaked, 1*5 in. long. 
In open forest on low hills ; Porak and Malacca. 
From Miquel's description of his T. villosa, (Fl, Tnd. Bat. Suppl. 
366,) that species and thiB must be very closely allied; and, if they 
are identical, Miquel's name, dating 1860, must take precedence of Hf. 
& TVs, which was published in 1875. 
2. T. Andamanica, King, n. sp. A glabrous shrub or small tree. 
Leaves sub-coriaceous, oblanceolate-obloug, rarely lanceolate, the apex 
(usually rather abruptly) acute, below gradually narrowed to the petiole; 
both surfaces shining ; main nerves 10 to 14 pairs, thin bat 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. Flowers solitary, sub-globose, 15 in. long : 
on thick terminal aunulated pubescent peduncles 1 in. long : stipular 
hood of calyx glabrous. Sepals 3. PetaU 6 ovate or obovate. Ripe 
fruit globose, pyriforiu, 1*5 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. Rabaniana, H. f. and Th., but has 
windier flowers and fruit. Tho individual carpels of this are not more 
than a third the aize of those of T. Rabaniana, which are more than 
1 inch long and narrowly oblong and not rhomboidal. 
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