pale. Leaves drying pale brown, sub-coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate to 
elliptic, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base nan-owed or rounded ; 
above shining; below dull, the reticulations distinct; nerves 5 or 6 
pairs ; length 2*5 to 4 in., breadth 1*2 to 1'75 in., petiolo '25 in. 
Flowers '25 in. long. Racemes axillary, shorter than the leaves, tlio 
pedicels longer than the flowers. Sepals ovate, fleshy, glabrous, con- 
cave, unequal. Petals thin, spathulato, much longer than sepals, gla- 
brescent. Ovary glabrous, shortly stipitate ; the stalk surrounded by a 
shallow entire, undulato, annular disc ; 10-ovulate ; stylo glabrous. Fruit 
globular, '5 to 75 in. in diatn., when ripe smooth, pulpy; pericarp 
thin, leathery. Hook. til. Fl. 13r. bid. I, 211. 
Malacca, Perak. 
15. Xan'Tiiopiivi.lum omscukuai, A. VV. Uenn. in Hook. hi. Fl. Br. 
Ind. I, 211. A large tree; branchon stout, glabrous, leutieellute. Lmres 
coriaceous, elliptic, blunt, nan-owed in the lower third to the stout petiole, 
drying to a dark brown; both surfaces shining; the lower slightly paler; 
main nerves 5 to 6 pairs, thin, rather prominent as are the intermediate 
nerves; length 4*25 to 4'75 in., breadth. 2 to 2*25 in., petiole -l- in. 
Racemes axillary, 1 to 115 in. long, few-flowered. Flowers 6 in. long, 
tho pedicels short. Sepals oblong, blunt, the edges ciliate, the 3 outer 
small. Petals glabrous, oblong, sub-spathulate. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, 
ovules 8 to 10 ; style glabrous. 
Siugrapore; Maingay, Hullotfc. 
Fruit of this is unknown. 
It). XANTnoi'iiYLLUM pvLCintvM, King, ii. Hp. A glabrous shrub or 
small tree, the young branches rather robust, tho bark very pale. Leaves 
coriaceous, shortly petiolate, elliptic, acute or very shortly and bluntly 
acuminate, tho edges recurved when dry, base rounded ; upper surface 
shining; lower dull, pale yellow, glaucous, the 5-(> pairs of nerves and 
tho lino reticulations very prominent ; length t to 8 in., breadth 2'25 to 
4> in. ; potiole stout, "2 in. Flowers 6 in. long, on short thick pedicels, 
in dense, solitary, axillary, rufous-tomontone racemes half as long as 
tho leaves, or less ; bracts broadly ovate, concave, deciduous, coloured. 
Sepals nearly equal, ovate-rotund, with Hoshy tomentoso midribs and 
thin minutely ciliate edges, coloured. Petals oblong, blunt, glabrous 
except the pubescent keel. Filaments rather short, broad, Hat, puberu- 
lous. Ovary ovoid, pointed, tomentose, surrounded by a thin, rather 
dcop, glabrous disc ; style glabrescent, slightly curved ■ ovules 12. Fruit 
globose, "75 in. in diam., minutely tomentose when ripe, pericarp 
thin. 
Perak : rather common. A handsome bush or troelot with yellow- 
ish flowers tinged with pink. 
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