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brandies 4-angled, yellow. Leave* thinly coriaceous, ovate-laneeolste to 
oblong- lanceolate, shortly caudate-acuminate, the base acnte ; both sur- 
faces sinning, the lower pale, opaque ; nerves 7 to 9 pairs, bold and promi- 
nent beneath as are some of the secondary nerves ; length 4'5 to 5'5 in., 
breadth 1'5 to 2 in., petiole "25 in. Male ftmvers about *2 in. in diam. in 
dense 6 to 10-flowered fascicles from small minutely brncteolate axillary 
tubercles; buds turbinate; pedicels slender, "1 in. or less in length; 
sepals 4, membranous, orbicular, concave; the outer pair much smaller 
and thicker, keeled ; petals 4, smaller than the sepals, fleshy, orhicular, 
concave ! stamens from a small receptacle ; filaments short ; anthers 
broadly reuiform, the connective expanded transversely, the cells some- 
times confluent, bent round it, and dehiscing along the convexity j rudy. 
stigma 0. Female flowers on axillary tubercles like the males, but 
fe wer- flowered : sepals as in the male but subequal : petals as in the 
male; staminodes about 10, distinct, the filaments broad, the pseud- 
anthers flat, ovate: stigma convex with 8 radiating ridges, its nun-gin 
S-angled ; ovary thick, cylindric, nearly as wide as the stigma. Fruit 
(fide Kunstler) ovoid, pointed. 
Porak; at low elevations, Wray No. 2162, King's Collector, No. 
2531. 
Subgenus II. XanthoCTTYMCs, Roxb. (Gen.), Sepals and petals 
5, very rarely 4. Filaments connate in 5, rarely in 4, erect distant pedi- 
celled spathulate bodies, antberiferous at the top, free portions very 
short, incurved ; anthers small, didymous. 
SI. Gabcinu Xanthochtmus, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 269. A me- 
dium-sized tree ; the branches glabrous, angled. Leaves glabrous, shining ; 
narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, the base cuneate ; nerves 
numerous, not prominent; length 8 to 15 in., breadth 1*75 to 375 in., 
petiole about "75 in. Male fioxcers '5 to '75 in in diam., in 4- 10-flowerccl 
fascicles, axillary or from the axils of fallen leaves, greenish-white ; 
pedicels stout, '5 to 1 in. long. Sepals '25 in. in diam., orbicular, unequal, 
fleshy, concave. Petals 35 in., orbicular, spreading, thin. Stamens in 
5 broad bundles of 8 to 5, alternating with 5 fleshy glands: anthers 2- 
celled. Jlermaph. Jlower like the male, the pedicels 2 or 3 times as long. 
Ovary ovoid, pointed, usually 5-celled ; stigma with 5, spreading, oblong 
blunt lobes. Ripe fruit globose, pointed, 2*5 in, in diam., dark yellow. 
Seeds 1 to 4, oblong. Kurz For. Flora Burma i, 93 1 Pierre Flore 
Forest. Cochin-Chine, fasc. VI, p. iii, t, 21 A. Xanthochymus pictarhts, 
Roxb. Corom. PI. ii, 51, t. 19b' ; FL Ind. ii, 633. X. tinctorius, DC. 
Prodr. i, 562; Chois. Guttif. Ind. 32 ; Planch, and Triaua Mem. Guttif. 
J49; W. and A. Prodr. 102; Wall. Cat. 4837, except 0. 
Andamans, Penang. Ihstrib. JJurmnh and Chittagong, base of K, 
] I i malaya and Assam, 8. India up to 1500 foot. 
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