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late at the top and somewhat narrowed at the base, '65 in. long, staLks 
12 in. long. Seed solitary, ovoid, smooth, with a vertical furrow. 
Malacca : Maingay (Kew Distrib.). No. 96. Perak ; King's Col- 
lector ; Wray. 
This is a common troc in Perak. In Malacca, however, it appears 
to be rare ; for it is so very imperfectly represented in Maingay's great 
Malayan collection (of which the best set is at Kew), that Sir Joseph 
Hooker, while recognising it as a Polyalthia, had not sufficient material 
to enable him to describe it in his Flora of British India. 
32. Polyalthia simiarum, Benth. and Hook. til. Gen. PI. 1,25; 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 63. A tree 50 to 80 feet high ; all parts glab- 
rous except the puberulous leaf buds, under surface of nerves of leaves 
and inflorescence ; young branches pale brown, striate, spai-sely lenticel- 
late. Leaves sab-coriaceous, ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute 
or shortly acuminate, the base rounded or sub-acute ; upper surface 
shining; lower dull, sometimes puberulous on the midrib and nerves ; 
main nerves 12 to 16 pairs, oblique, prominent beneath ; length 5 to 
11 in., breadth 2 to 4'5 in., petiole "25 in. Flowers pedicelled, in 
few-fiowered sessile fascicles from the axils of fallen leaves or from 
tubercleB on the larger branches : pedicels minutely pubescent, with a 
small bract below the middle, 1 to 1"25 in. long. Sepals small, bluntly 
triangular, reourved, pubescent outside. Petals spreading, linear, sub- 
acute or acute, greenish-yellow to purplish, puberulous outside, glabrous 
inside, 1 to 125 in, long, the inner rather the longer. Ripe carpels stalk- 
ed, ovoid-elliplic, slightly mummillate, contracted towards the base, 
glabrous and orange-red to bluisli-black when ripe, 1'25 to 1*5 in. long t 
stalk from 1 to 1"75 in. Seed ovoid, grooved, transversely striate. 
Kurz For. Fl. Burm. I, 37; Hook, fil, Fi. Br. Ind. I, 63. Quatteria 
simiarum , Ham., Wall. Cat. 6440 ; Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 142. 
Q. fasticulata, Wall. MSS. ex Voigfc Hot t. Sub. Calc. 16. Polyalthia 
lateriflora, Kurz (not of King), Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Pt. 2, (for 1874) 
52. Unona simiarum, H. Bn., Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch-Chine, t. 23, 
Andamans, Bot. Garden Collectors. Perak, King's Collector. For- 
ests at the base of the Eastern Himalaya, the Assam range, Chittagong, 
linrmah. 
Vai\ parcifolia, King : leaves smaller than in typical form (3 5 to 
6 in. long and 1*25 to 2 25 in. broad) puberulous beneath. 
Perak ; at elevation of 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Distrib. Sumatra : on 
Ooenong Trang, Lampongs. (Forbes, No. 1536). 
13. Polya lthia lateriflora, King. A tree 50 to 70 feet high j 
young branches lenticellate and striate ; all parts except the inflores- 
cence quite glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong to elliptic-oblong 
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