4 
Ovules 1 or 2, rarely 3 or 4 ; si am ens 
few or nnmerous, compressed, the * 
apical process of the connective 
compressed, rot broad or truncate, 
and not concealing the anther- 
cells from above ... ... 22. Milium, 
Petals larger than the sepals, often saccate 
at the base, subequal or the inner smaller 23. Alphonsea. 
Ovaries solitary. 
Outer petals valvate, inner imbricate ... 24. Kingstonia. 
All the petals valvate ... ... 25. Mezzettia. 
I. Stflechocarpus, Blume. 
Trees. Leaves coriaceous. Flowers dioecious, fascicled, on the old 
wood. Sepals 8/ small, elliptic me orbicular, imbricate. Torus conical. 
Stamens indefinite ; connective dilated, truncate. Ovaries indefinite, 
ovoid ; stigma sessile ; ovules 6 or more. Ripe carpels large, berried, 
globose, 4-6-seeded. — Distrib. Species 3 or 4, all Malayan. 
Leaves pellucid-punctate ... ... ... 1 S. punctatus. 
Leaves not pellucid- punctate. 
Flowers of both sexes alike ... ... 2 S. nitidus. 
Male flowers smaller than the female ... 3 S. Burahol. 
1. Stelechocarpus punctatus, King n. sp. A tree 20 to 30 feet 
high : young branches slender, cinereous-pubernlous, becoming glabrous. 
Leaves membranous, minutely pellucid punctate, elliptic-ovate, shortly 
acuminate, slightly narrowed in the lower fourth to the rounded sub- 
oblique base : upper surface shining, glabrous except the pubescent 
impressed midrib ; lower surface shining, paler than the upper, sparsely 
puberulous or glabrous, the reticulations minute and distinct: main 
nerves 12 to 14 pairs, bold and prominent on the lower, slightly impres- 
sed on the upper, surface : length of blade 7 to 10 in., breadth 3 to 4 in. ; 
petiole *15 to 2 in., stout, pubescent. Male flowers in several-flowered 
fascicles from woody tubercles on the trunk, pedunculate : buds turbi- 
nate, nearly 5 in., in diam. ; peduncles 1 to 1*5 in. long, stout, thickened 
upwards, ebracteolate, pubernlouB. Sepals very coriaceous, rotund, 
concave, conjoined at the base, spreading, rugose, pubescent outside, 
glabrous inside. Petals very coriaceous, rotund, concave, glabrous ; 
the outer 3 puberulous outside ; the inner three smaller than the outer, 
quite glabrous, otherwise like them and all of a dark brownish colour. 
Anthers sessile, flat, the cells elongate on the anterior surface, the back 
striate : apex without any appendage from the connective. Female 
flowers and fruit unknown. 
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