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Pcrak, on low Hills. 
This resembles Xi adenolus, Miq., bat differs iu vonation of leaves 
and in inflorescence. 
19. Xantdopiiylldm sulphureum, King, n, sp. A tree 100 (or even 
150) feet high ; branches with very dark brown bark, the youngest 
minutely tomentoso. Leaves coriaceous, drying bright yellowish-green, 
elliptic-oblong, sometimes sub-obovate, acuminate, the edges recurved 
■when dry, the base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, shining ; lower sul- 
phureons, softly but minutely pubescent especially on the midrib and G 
to 7 pairs of prominent ascending nerves ; lengtb 5*5 to 7*5 in., breadth 
2 to 2 5 in., petiole '5 to '65 in. Flowers '4 in. long, the pedicels about 
as long aa tho calyx. Panicles tomentoso, with ovate deciduous bracts, 
compact, many-branched, axillary or terminal, less than half the length 
of the leaves. Sepak unequal, ovate-rotund, minutely tomentose on 
both surfaces, the edges ciliolate. Petals oblong, obtnse, glabrous 
except the pubescent tips ; the keel obovate, vertically 9 to 10-ridged, 
tomentose. FilamerUs flattened, glabrous. Ovary shortly stipitatc, gla- 
brous, ovate, 8-ovulcd, surrounded at the base by a fleshy glabrous much 
waved annular disc. Style villous in its lower, glabrous in its upper, 
half, Fruit (young) globose, sulphureous, glabrous, faintly rugose. 
Porak, on low lulls. 
Not unlike X. rufum, A. TV. Bonn, in general aspect : but with 
smaller flowers, glabrous ovary and fruit, and leaves intensely sulphu- 
reous beneath. 
20. X a nth o ph y r. l cm rufvm, A. W. Benn. in Hook, fit FI. Br. Ind. I, 
210. A tree 40 to 50 feet high. Branchlets stout, terete, pale scurfy- 
pubescent, tho youngest rufous-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to 
ovato or obovate-elliptic, very shortly and suddenly acuminate, narrow- 
ed in the lower third to the stout short petiole, the edges recurved when 
dry ; upper surface glabrous, dull ; lower paler, covered with short soft 
pubescence especially on tho midrib and 7-8 pairs of bold semi-erect 
nerves ; length 4 5 to G'5 in. (acumen 5 in.,) breadth 2*25 to 2*75 in., 
petiole '5 in. Panicles torminal or from tho axils of the uppermost 
leaves, lax, few-branched, 3 to 7 in, long, densely tomentoso, the ends 
of tho branches and sepals rufous. Flowers G in. long, on short pedieela 
in tho axils of ovate sub-persistent bracts. Sepals unequal, ovate to sub- 
rcniform, densely tomeutose on both surfaces, fleshy, concavo Petals 
more than twice as long as the sepals, oblong, obtuse, glabrous except 
the tomentose keel. Fit amenta glabrous, flat at the base. Ovary sur- 
rounded by a shallow fleshy disc, sessile, ovate, pointed, ridged, tomen- 
toso as is also tho conical stylo ; ovules 12 to 16. Fruit 75 in. in diaiu., 
(r nmf mo) globose, with 4 vertical rufous pubescent ridges; pericarp 
thick, crustaceous, 
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