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pled or condnplicate ; radicle inferior, indexed, Disl.rib. Malay Penin- 
sula and Indian Arehipelago. Species about. 7. 
1. Pyrknaria acumfnata, Planch, ex Ohoisy Mom. Ternstr. 84. A 
shrubby tree, 15 to SO feet high : young brunehes densely tawny or ful- 
vous -to men tose Leaves elongate-oblunceolate, sometimes oblong-elliptic, 
acuminate, minutely serrulate, the base attenuate; upper surface gla- 
brous, shining, the midrib and nerves puberulous, greenish when dry ; the 
lower softly pubescent, minutely papillose; the midrib stout, tomontose ; 
main nerves about 1<J pairs, sometimes forking 1 and always interarching 
about '25 in, from the margin ; length 6 to 12 in., breadth 2 to 3 5 in. ; 
petiole '4 in., tomentose. Flowers 15 in. in diam., shortly pedicellate, 
solitary, crowded towards the ends of the branches in the axils of leaves 
or of abortive loaves ; pedicels recurved, tomentose ; bracteoles lanceo- 
late, close to the calyx, tawny -silky externally as are sepals and petals. 
Sepals and petals graduated in size from the bracts inwards, broadly 
ovate, acuminate, glabrous and brownish internally ; anthers ovate, 
adnate, on\y about one-fourth the length of the slender filaments. Ooartj 
ovoid, sericeous: styles united in the lower half, free above : stigmas 
small Fruit depressed-glohoBe, 1*5 in. in diam., and I in. long ; the 
pericarp sericeous, becoming glabreseeut, leathery, snb-succalent. Seed* 
few, large, sub-reuiform, compressed. Miq. Fh Ind. Bat. I, Pt. ii, p. 
493 ; Dyer in Hook. HI. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 290. Ttrnstnemia ? macrophtjUu, 
Wall. Cat. 3G63. Oordonia {Camellia f) acuminata, Wall. Cat. 36t>4. 
Singapore, Malacca, Penan g and Perak ; at low elevations. 
2. Pvkbnaria KrjNSTLititr., King, n. sp. A tree 15 to 30 feet high ; all 
parts glabrous except tho very apices of the branches, the youngest leaf- 
buds, and the flowers. Leaves elliptic-oblong to oblong-oblanceolate,acumi- 
nate, faintly serrate in the upper throe-fourths; the base entire, acute ; 
both surfaces, but especially the lower, much pustulate when dry ; the 
lower browu, the upper greenish | midrib and <> to 8 pairs of erecto- 
patent main nerves rather prominent below, the latter interarching "3 
to 4 in. from the edge; secondary nerves prominent; lengih 5'5 to 7 in., 
breadth I S to 2 5 in., petiole - 3 to 4 in. Flowers "75 in. in diam., on 
peduncles "1 in. long ; bracteoles 2, opposite, broad, close to the calyx. 
Sepals rotund, coriaceous, puboscent externally. Petals larger than tho 
sepals, rotund, glabrous, fleshy with thin edges, white. Stamens nu- 
merous: authors broadly ovate, apiculate, 4 or 5 times as long as the 
slightly flattened tilauieuts. Ovary ovoid-come, ridged, udpressed-pubes- 
cout, 5-colled. Style short, conic, glabrous, 5-ridged. Stigmas small, 
acute, conniveut. Fruit. 125 in. long, and 'J in. in diam., ovoid, blunt- 
ly 5-ridged, pubescent. Seeds few, ovate, sub-compressed, "6 in. long, 
Potak ; at elevations of 500 to 2000 feet. King's Collector. 
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