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much narrowed at ilie base, edge slitflit.lv thickened, upper surface shin- 
ing, the midrib prominent ou the rather doll lower surface, nerves rather 
bold and equally prominent ou both ; length 5 to 10 in., breadth 2 to 3 
in., petiole 1 to 2 '25 in. Racemes not half the length of the leaves, 
axillary, solitary, 6-10 flowered, minutely ferruginons-pnberutous. 
Floivers 1 in. in diam.; pedicels 1 to 125 in. Sepals 4, the outer pair 
pubcrulous externally ; the inner pair larger, imbricate, oblong-rotund, 
orbicular, concave, rusty, obtuso, petaloid. Petals 4, smaller than the 
inner scpnls, oblanceoiate, clawed. Stamens short. Fruit {fide Maingay) 
ellipsoid, 5 in. long. 
Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 174). Perak ; King's Collector, 
No. 8851. 
17. Calophyllum venustdm, King, n. sp A glabrous tree, 20 to 
30 feet high. Leaves thinly coriaceous, shining, rigid, elliptic-ovate, 
retuee, the base cuneate, the margin thickened ; uerves rather distant for 
the genus and equally distinct on both surfaces ; length 175 to S in., 
breadth 1 to 1*5 in., petiole *3 to '4 in. Racemes 3-5 flowered, solitary, 
jtxillfiiy, half as long as the leaves, very lax, spreading. Flowers large 
(•5 in. in diam.), on long ('75 in.) pedicels; buds ovoid. Sepals 4i, more 
or less orbicular. Petals 4 to 6, narrower than the sepals, the inner 
oblong, voiued, all obtuse. Fruit unknown. 
Perak ; King's Collector, No. 7763. 
A very handsome Rpceies of which the fruit is unknown. In leaf 
it resembles 0. amajntun, but differs greatly in the flowers. 
3. Katea, Wall. 
Trees. Leaves opposite; veins rather distant, arched. Flowers 
hermaphrodite, either largo and sulitary, or small and collected in ter- 
minal panicles. Sepals and petals 4 each, imbricate. Stamens numer- 
ous, filaments slender, free or connate at the base ; anthers small, sub- 
globose, 2-celled, dehiscence vertical. Ovary 1-celled; style slender, 
stigma acutely 4-fid ; ovules 4, erect. Fruit subdrupaceous, fleshy, in- 
dehiscent, 1-4-seeded. Seeds thick, testa, thin and crustaceous. — Distrib. 
Tropical Asia, 7 species. 
Flowers in racemes. 
Racemes 2 to 3 in. long: flowers 1 in. 
or more in diam. ... 1. K. Wrayi. 
Racemes less than 1 in. long \ flowers 
less than 1 in. in diam. ... 2. K. raccmosa. 
Flowers solitary, axillary. 
Nervation of leaves bold, distinct. 
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