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10. Archyt-EA, Martins. 
Glabrous shrubs or trees with semiamplexicanl leaves. Flowers on 
a lateral, compressed, 1 to 4-flowered, peduncle. Bracts large, leaf-like. 
Sepals and petals each 5. Stamens numerous, 5-adelphous ; anthers 
versatile. Ovary 5-celled ; styles distinct, or wholly united ; ovules nu- 
merous, in many imbricating rows. Capsule acuminate, septicidal from 
below, with a persistent axis. Seeds linear-subcylindric, albumen scanty. 
Distrib. Trop. Atner. and Indian Archipelago. Species 3. 
1. Archtt^a Yah lh, Choisy Mem. Ternstr. 73. A glabrous 
shrub (sometimes epiphytic) or small tree : the young branches, pale, 
smooth. Leaves thinly coriaceous, sessile, narrowly oblanceolate, acute, 
entire, slightly narrowed to the truncate or slightly amplexicaul base ; 
nerves about 15 pairs, straight, erect, interarching with an intra-mar- 
ginai nerve; length 3 to 45 in., breadth *5 to "75 in. Flowers 1 to 1*25 
in. iu diam.; peduncles crowded towards the end of the branches, 
coloured; bracts close to the flowers, oblong, sub-serrulate, *5 to *75 in. 
long. Sepah ovate-rotund, coriaceous. Petals obovate, much larger 
than the sepals, membranous, veined, pink. Fruit '75 in. long, narrow- 
ly ovoid, acuminate, crowned by the persistent styles. Hook. fil. Fl. 
Br. Ind. i, 294. Pierre ¥1. For. Coch.- Chine, t. 129. Ploiarium elegans, 
Korth. Verh. Wat. Gesch. Bot. 135, t, 25. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pfc. ii, 
491. Hypericum altemifolium, Vahi. Symb. ii, t. 42 ; DC. Prodr. i, 
445 ; Wall. Cat. 4806. 
In all the provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 
Distrib. The Malayan Archipelago. 
# * Note on the fruit of Xanthophyllum Scorteckinii, King. 
Since the pages describing the genus Xanthophyllum were printed 
off, I have received from Mr. Curtis, of the Forest Department, Penang, 
complete specimens of this species ; and I am therefore now able to 
add to the account of it given on p. 140 the following description of the 
young fruit, 
Fruit globular or ovoid-globular, "75 to 1 in. in diam., shortly apicu- 
late, smooth, shining ; the pericarp very thick. 
Ripe fruit is still a desideratum. 
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