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slightly recurved, the base broad and rounded, or narrowed and sub-acute; 
both surfaces glabrous; the lower slightly paler, the midrib tomentose at 
the base beneath; main nerves 11 or 12 pairs, spreading, prominent, 
evanescent at the tips; length 4'5 to 7 5 in M breadth I "75 to 3*5 in., 
petiole '35 to *5 in., tomentose when young. Flowers about 1*5 in. long, 
in few-flowered fascicles from small tubercles on the older branches ; 
their pedicels 2 in. long, bracteolate about the middle, softly tawny- 
tomentose. Sepals broadly half-orbicular, very short, reflexed, tomen- 
tose. Petals coriaceous, nerved, pale green, oblong-lanceolate or ob- 
lanceolate, sub-acute or obtuse, pubescent on the outer, tomentose on 
the inner, surface ; the outer slightly shorter and narrower than the 
inner, from 9 to 1'5 in. long and *3 to *5 in. broad. Stamens numerous, 
compressed, the apical process of connective truncate j anthers linear, 
dorsal. Ovaries numerous, glabrous, vertically striate ; stigma sessile, 
truncate, pnberulous. Rijie carpels numerous, crowded when young, 
densely covered with minute pale tomentum ; when ripe narrowly 
obovoid, blunt, narrowed to a short slalk, sub-tomentose, 1*75 in, long 
and about 1 in. indiam. ; pericarp thick, fleshy; seeds two, plano-con- 
vex. 
In its leaves this resembles Guatteria pondok, Miq. (Fl. Ind. Bat. 
Suppl. 380), but that species has carpels with stalks from 2 to 3 in. 
long. 
Perak; at elevation under 1,000 feet, King's Collector, Nos. 6655 
and 7516. 
28. PoLYALTHTA PYCNANTHA, King. A tree ? Young branches 
rather stout, covered with soft yellowish pubescence. Leaves coria- 
ceous, elliptic-oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, the base 
obtuse or rounded : upper surface glabrous ; lower paler and puberulous 
on the midrib ; main nerves arching, prominent ; length 6 to 9 in., 
breadth 2'5 to 3'5 in, ; petiole 2 in., pubescent. Flowers *5 to "75 
in. in diam., in fascicles from tubercles on the larger branches, 1 to 5 in. 
in diam. ; flower- peduncles '25 in. long, pubescent, ebracteate. Sepals 
ovate, acute, "2 in. long. Petals linear, obtuse, flat, sub-equal, the bases 
of the inner three concave, "5 to *75 in. long, pale sericeous outside, 
glabrescent inside. Torus columnar-flat-topped, glabrous : ovules 2, 
superposed. Unona pycnatitka, Hook til. in Fl. Br, Ind. I, 60. 
Malacca ; Main gay. 
12 Anaxagorea, St. Hilaire. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves with pellucid dots. Flowers small, greenish, 
leaf -opposed. Sepals 3, valvate, connate at the base. Petals 6 or 3, sub- 
equal, 2-seriate, valvate, the inner row sometimes absent. Turns convex. 
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