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Penang: Pinara Bukit, elevat. 2000 feet. Curtis (No. 2444). 
Perak ! Waterfall Hill, Wray. Distrib. E. Sumatra, Forbes (No. 1638). 
This species is known only by a few fruiting specimens collected 
by Messrs. Curtis aud Wray Junior. It is nearly allied to P. mucropoda^ 
King; but its leaves have different venation and texture, the torus of 
the ripe fruit is smaller, while the carpels themselves are larger and 
have longer stalks. 
J 7- Politalthia QLOMEEATA, King n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet high : 
young branehes glabrous, pale, rather slender. Leaves membranous, 
elliptic to oblong, slightly oblique, acute or shortly acuminate, the base 
slightly cuncato or rounded ; both surfaces reticulate, glabrous | the 
midrib alone puberulous on the upper, adpressed-puberulous on the 
lower ; main nerves 7 to 8 pairs, curved, ascending, not inter-arching, 
thin but slightly prominent beneath ; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1*8 to 
"Z'G in , petiole 2o to '35 in. Flowers about 1 in. long, in clusters of 20 
to 30 from nodulated puberulous tubercles on the stem; pedicels long 
(15 to 2 5 in.), slender, puberulous, with an ovate- lanceolate bracteole 
about the middle. Sepals thick, lanceolate-acuminate with broad con- 
nate bases, sub-erect, puberulous. Petals coriaceous, sub-erect, linear- 
oblong, slightly concave and glabrous at the base inside, otherwise 
minutely tomentose, the inner slightly smaller than the outer. Stamens 
numerous ; the connective with an orbicular sub-convex apical expan- 
sion concealing the linear dorsal anther-cells. Ovaries much less nu- 
merous than the stamens, oblong, hirsute, apparently 1-ovuled ; the 
atigma small, oblong, slightly pubescent. 
Perak ; King's Collector, Wray, Distrib. Sumatra; Forbes, No. 
2804. 
In all the flowers I have examined the pistils are very small (as if 
undeveloped) ami I have not been able to find more than one ovule. In 
the Suraatrau specimens the flowers are much longer than in those from 
Perak. 
18. Poltalthia congregata, King n. sp. A tree 40 to GO feet 
high ; young branches at lirst rusty-puberulous but speedily glabrous 
and dark-coloured. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, acute, 
slightly narrowed to the rounded or minutely cordate base ; upper 
surface glabrous except the depressed puberulous midrib ; the lower 
pale when dry, glabrous, minutely lepidote ; main nerves 13 to 19 
pairs, oblique, curving, thin but prominent beneath ; length 9 to 16 in., 
breadth 3*75 to 7 in. ; petiole '3 or '4 in. stout. Flowers large, in short, 
much divided, rough, tubercular, woody cymes from the stem near its 
base j the pedicels l'25to 1'75 in. long, glabrescent ; braeteole single, sub- 
orbicular, clasping, infra- median. Sepals thick, broadly ovate- triangular, 
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