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The foregoing deseripf ion has l>t>ert drawn up from Brfaftlgay's 
Malacca specimens above quoted, whieb Icivo been aeeepled by Sir 
Joseph Hooker as of the species described by I'lanehon ami Triuna aw K. 
racemom. Those authors founded the species nm a Wallichian specimen 
in M. de Caudolle's Herbarium, without number or indication of Locality, 
which had been separator! from some other Wallichian number, and 
which hoars the following note hy Choisy "Mesiia spceiosa? specimen im- 
pt>rjWfft,ii. s/'nt- uofnln hi hcrh. Wnll'nJiiann report nm." This sp.-<Mnieii I 
have not seen. Of Wall. Cat. No. 4836, (Mesita Singapnriana,) there 
is a specimen in Herb. Calc. ; and it is certainly different from Maingay's 
177, being more like a Mesna than a Kayea, 
3. KiYKA OKAndis, King, u. sp. A glabrous tree, 40 to 80 feet high. 
Leaves large, coriaceous, oblong to elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, the edges 
re volute (when dry), slightly narrowed towards the rounded or sub-acute 
base; both surfaces rather dull (when dry), the 20 to 25 pairs of main 
nerves sub-horizontal, prominent, the secondary nerves also prominent; 
length 9 to IS in., breadth 3 to 4\5 in. ; petiolo *4 to '75 in., smooth. 
Flower* sub-globoso in bud, pedicelled, in short few-flowered axillary 
cymes crowded in the axils of the leaves, rarely solitary, about 1'25 in. in 
diara. when expanded j pedicels "5 in. Sepals rotund, the outer concave 
very coriaceous ; the inner thin, not larger than the outer. Petal* elliptic 
ohlong, acute, larger than the Hepals ("5 in. long or more). Hipe /exit 
turbinate, 2 to 2'5 in. in diara. and 125 in. thick, leathery, completely 
enveloped by the persistent, thickened, outer Bcpals. 
Malacca; Maingay (Kow Distrib. 17S), Cantlay No. 2354. Perak, 
King's Collector. 
A very fine species ; at once distinguished by its large loaves and 
depressed turbinate fruit. The fruit, and probably the whole plant, 
abounds in yellow juice. According to M. Cantley the wood siuka in 
water. 
4. Kate A Kunstleri, King, n. sp. A glabrous tree, 30 to 50 feet 
high; the bran chic ts brownish, sub-striate, not tuberculate. .Leaver thinly 
coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate; sub-undulate, the base much 
narrowed to petiole ; both surfaces rather dull (when dry) with a few 
scattered opaque black dots ; the lower pale, sub-ghuicesceut (when dry) ; 
length 4 to 0 in., breadth 1 to 2*25 in. ; petiole *23 in. to '4 iu., rugose ; 
nerves 20 to 24 pairs, unequal, prominent ; the lower horizontal, the upper 
slightly curving upwards. Flower solitary, axillary or terminal, 10 to 
2 in. diara., on a very short smooth pedicel, bracts at its base linear- 
subulate: bud globose, smooth. Sepals unequal as in nervosa,. Petals 
oblong-acuminate, 1 in. long. Ripe fruit ovoid, gradually narrowing 
into n shnri subulate apical beak. 
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