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very small, sub-orbicular, pubcruloiis. Petals sub-coriaceous, spreading, 
greenish changing to yellow, broadly lanceolate or oblanceolate, sa h- 
acute or obtuse, the base much narrowed, pubernlons or glabrous. 
Mipp carpels numerous, stalked, oblong, slightly apiculatc, glabrous, 
*4 in. long: stalk slender, '6 in. long. Seed smooth. Hook. fil. F). 
Br. lud, Ind, I, 64 (in part) ; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. I T 375 (in pari) ; 
Guatteria Jenkinsii, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. Li I ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 
Bat. I, pt. 2, p. 46. Guatteria Parveana Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, Pt. 
2, p. 48, and Suppl. 378. TJvaria canangioides, Reichb. fil. et Zoll. MSS. 
Monoon canang hides. Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. II, 18. 
Malacca; Griffith; Maingay, No. 46 (and 45 in part) (Kew Dis- 
trib.). Perak; King's Collector, No. 3910. Assam and Silhet. 
Specimens from Perak have larger flowers than those from Assam ; 
but otherwise they agree fairly well, and both appear to be specifically 
identical with the Snmatra plant named Guatteria or Monoon canangi- 
oides by Miquel. The Andaman plant which Kurz originally (Andam. 
Report (1870) p. 29) named Polyalthia andamanica, but which Sir 
Joseph Hooker (dealing with imperfect materials) reduced (with Kurz's 
assent) to this species, I have restored to specific rank. Recently 
received specimens show its flowers to be different from those of true P. 
Jenlcinsii (the petals being shorter and narrower), while the carpels are 
larger. 
11. Polyalthia Hookeriana, King n. sp. 4 A tree 20 to 70 feet 
high : young branches softly tawny-pubescent, ultimately glabrous and 
darkly cinereous. Lea ves membranous, obovate-elliptic or oblanceolate, 
shortly acuminate, narrowed from above the middle to the snb-cuneate 
base ; both surfaces reticulate, the upper glabrous except the pubescent 
midrib and nerves ; lower glabrous, the midrib and nerves ad pressed - 
pubescent: main nerves 10 or H pairs, oblique, forming imporfect 
arches close to the edge, prominent beneath ; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 
2 25 to 3 25 in. ; petiole '15 to '2 in., tomentose. Flowers in pail's from 
peduncles with several aborted flowers near their bases, extra-axillary : 
pedicels '5 to '75 in. long, lengthening in fruit, stout, pubescent, with 
1 or 2 small ovate bracteoles at the middle or below it. Sepals broadly 
ovate, coneave, free or connate only at the base, pubescent outside, 
glabrous within, 2 in. long. Petals coriaceous, yellowish, subeqnal, ovate 
or obovate-oblong, sub-acute, pnberulons except at the base inside, 
only Blightly contracted at the base, nearly 1 in, long. Stamem numer- 
ous, very short, cuncate ; the apical process of the connective thick with 
a truncate orbicular top hiding the linear dorsal anthers. Ovaries short, 
oblong, pnberulons, with 1 ovule: stigma sessile, large, obovate with 
sub-truncate lobed apex. Eipe carpels numerous, ovoid, slightly apicu- 
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