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tuse ; the inner rather shorter and narrower, oblong ; all pubescent 
especially externally. Stamens in the male flowers numerous, with 
roundish flat heads. Ovaries in the female flower many, curved. Oarpels 
rather numerous, ovoid, slightly apicnlate, narrowed into the stalk, rose- 
red when ripe (Wray), about 1 iu. long and '5 in. in ilia in., glabrous ; 
their stalks '75 to 1 in. long. 
Malacca ; Maingay, (Kew Distrib.), No. 47. Perak ; common at 
low elevations. Peunng ; Curtis. 
In the texture and nervation of its leaves this species has a strong 
resemblance to Popowia nervifolia y Maing. and other species in its 
neighbourhood. But the petals are not those of a Popowia, both rows 
being distinctly imbricate. Tho fruit moreover is larger than that of 
Popowia, and the aibumeu is much more cellular in structure being, in 
this respect, like that of Ellipeia cuneifolia, H. f. & Th. 
6. Cyathocalyx, Champion. 
Trees. Leaves glabrous. Flowers fascicled, terminal or leaf-opposed. 
Sepals free or united into a 3-lobed cup. Petals 6, 2-seriate, valvate in 
bud, subeuual, bases concave conniving, blade flat spreading. Stamens 
indefinite, long-cuneate, truncate ; anther* cells linear, dorsal. Ovaries 
solitary or 2-6, on a concave torus ; stigma large, grooved ; ovules many. 
Ripe carpels berried. — Distrib, Tropical India and Malaya; species 8. 
Ripe carpels ovoid ... ... ... J C. virgatus. 
Ripe carpels globular ... ... ... 2 C. Mahujayi. 
In its petals this genus resembles Artabotrys to some extent, but 
Polijalthia still move. The ovaries iu the first two species are usually soli- 
tary ; in the third they am 3 in number : the ripe carpels of all three being 
large succulent and many-seeded. Baillon admits the genus as it was 
established by Champion and accepted by Hooker Alius & Thomson. 
In the above diagnosis I have however modified the definition so as to 
provide for the species with more than one ovary, 
1. Cyathocalyx virgatus, King, A tree 40 to 60 feet high : young 
branches slender, pale, glabrous, the tips alone pubescent. Leaves mem- 
branous, elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, shortly and obtusely acumi- 
nate, the base cuneate or sometimes rounded ; both surfaces shining, 
the lower rather darker when dry; the upper glabrous, the lower 
pubescent on the 8 or 9 pairs of sub-ascending rather prominent nerves : 
length 4 to G o in., breadth 125 to 2*75 in.; petiole '25 to '35 in., pu- 
bescent. Flowers iu axillary, sub-sessile fascicles of 2 or 3, about '75 
in, long. Sepals united at the base, ovate to ovate- lanceolate, spreading, 
tomentose, shorter than the inner petals. Petals tomeutose-sericeous ; 
the outer row much longer than the inner, lanceolate, much acuminate, 
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