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7. GnfiwiA laurifolu, Hook, in Hook. til. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 392. A tree 
20 to 30 feet high ; all parts except the inflorescence glabrous: young 
branches with dark-coloured bark. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong 
lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate or acute, entire ; the base rounded 
boldly 3-nerved : both surfaces shining; lateral nerves 1 or 2 pairs, 
alternate ; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1"5 to 2*5 in., petiole '5 to *7 in. 
Panicles terminal and axillary, 1*5 to 4 in. long, lax, few- flowered, pu- 
borulous : bracteoles few, linear, fugaceous. Flowers '2 in. long, their 
pedicels about '15 in. Sepals ovate, concave, the edges much inflexed, 
minutely foment".^ on both su rtV. <■<■>. J\^i!-< much ffoO&BS (nan the 
sepals, oblong, often absent. Torus cup-shaped, its rim hirsute. Ovary 
globose, sub-glabrous, 4-celled, Style thick, cylindric, tapering, gla- 
brous. Drupe ovoid, 5 in. long, the pedicel about as long, with 1 or 2 
vertical furrows, pericarp glabrous, endocarp fleshy and fibrous : pyrexia 
1 to 3-celled, bnt usually only one cell containing a single seed : endo- 
carp bony. 
Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. Pcnang ; Curtis. Perak ; Scortechini, 
King's Collector. Distil b. Sumatra. 
8. Grbwia calophylla, Kurz Andam. Rep. App. B. iii; Flor. 
Burm. i. 157. A tree 20 to 30 feet high : all parts glabrous except the 
minutely velvetty tawuy inflorescence : young branches slender, dark- 
coloured. Leaves thinly coriaceous, shining, ovate-lanceolate to ovate- 
elliptic, acuminate, entire; the base rounded or slightly cuneate, 3- 
nerved ; lateral nerves 9 or 4 pairs, ascending; transverse nerves 
slender : length 4 to 7 in., breadth 1"75 to 3 in., petiole *3 to '75 in. 
Panicles pedunculate, axillary or terminal, few-flowered, 1*5 to 3 in. 
long. Flowers *5 in. long, their pedicels very short. Sepals nar- 
rowly oblong, the edges much incurved, minutely velvetty, much 
reflexed. Petals about half the length of the sepals and much nar- 
rower, lanceolate; the limb subulate; the claw ovoid, expanded, 
thick and densely tomentoseat the margin. Torus cylindric, puberulons 
outside. Ovary ovoid, pointed, style long filiform, both puberulous. 
Fruit obovoid, compressed, 1*4 in. long and *75 in. in diani. ; pericarp 
membranous, glabrous, shining ; mesocarp thick, pulpy and fibrous : 
pyrenes 3, of which one is 2-cellcd hut contains only a single seed, the 
others abortive ; the eudocarp bony. Mast, in Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Iud. 
i. 392. 
Nieobar Islands, Kurz : S. Andaman, Kurz, King. 
This is very near Q. laurifolia t Hook, but has very much larger 
fruit. A Malacca plant (Griflitli, No. 680/2 Kew Distrib.) resembles- 
this in leaves but not in flower. The only specimens which I have 
seen are too imperfect for determination. 
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