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Malacca : Maingay. Perak ; Scortechini, Wray. 
In some carpels there are two seeds, such carpels being about twice 
as long as those with a single seeil. Although referred by the late 
lamented Father Scortcchini to the genus Melodorum, this is an undoubt- 
ed Polyalthia in its stamens, in its J- rarely 2-ovuled ovaries, and in its 
carpels with usually solitary, ovoid seeds. In externals, save and except 
the much smaller size of the flowers, this much resembles the plant 
figured by Pierre under the name of Uwrna Mesnyi (Flore Forest. 
Coch-Chine, t. 17) to which indeed Pierre reduces P. aberrans. 
22. Polyalthia bullata, King n. sp. A shrub 6 to 8 feet high : 
young branches densely covered with long soft spreading golden hairs. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous, bullate (at least when dry), narrowly oblong, 
acuminate, narrowed but slightly co the deeply cordate auricled base : 
both surfaces boldly reticulate, t ho upper sinning, glabrous except the 
suleate pnberulons midrib ; the lower glabrescent except the midrib and 
nerves which have sparse hairs like those on the young branches : main 
nerves 25 to 40 pairs, spreading towards the base, sab-ascending to- 
wards the apex, forming a double series of arches within the margin, 
bold and prominent on the lower, depressed on the upper, surface : 
secondary nerves and reticulations prominent ; length 12 to 14 in., 
breadth 2 75 to 3*35 in. j petiole "25 in, pubescent like the young 
branches. Fl<nr >r* solitary, terminal or axillary, 1 in. long ; pedicels 
slender, 1 in. long, pubescent, bracteole small, mesial. Sepals small, 
lanceolate, spreading, free, sparsely pubescent outside, glabrescent inside, 
about '2o in long. Petals narrowly linear, slightly wider at the base, 
Rubequal, sub-concave, sparsely pubescent,. Shtvwns numerous, the 
apical process of the connective sub-convex, orbicular, slightly granular. 
Ovaries much fewer than the stamens, oblong, pubescent; the stigma 
sub-capitate-truneate, puberulous. Ripe carpels globular-ovoid, blunt at 
each end, pubemlous, 4 in. long; stalks slender, '2 in. long. Seeds 2, 
plano-couvex, the testa rugose, pale : the albumen horny. 
Singapore: Ridley. Perak; King's Collector. 
Evidently a rare shrub ; readily recognisable by its elongate very 
bullate leaves. 
23. Polyalthia sub-cordata, Blume Fl. Javae, 71 t. 33 and 3G B. 
A shrub or small tree : young branches sparsely hispid-pubescent, after- 
wards glabrous and furrowed, not pale. Leaves membranous, sub-sessile, 
oblanceolate-obbing or elliptic-oblong, shortly and obtusely caudate- 
acuminate; the base slightly narrowed, sub-cordate, anriculate at one 
Bide; both surf aces glabrous except the sometimes pubemlous midrib: 
main nerves 9 to 12 pairs, slender, the reticulations lax and faint: length 
4*5 to 9 in., breadth 1*6 to 3 in. ; petiole "05 in., pubescent. Flowers 
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