glabrouB except the puberulous midrib ; lower paler, sparsely rusty - 
pubescent; main nerves 10 or H pairs, oblique, rather prominent ou 
the lower surface ; length 5'5 to 8*5 in., breadth 18 to 3 in. j petiole 
•35 to '5 in., maty-pabescent. Floicers polygamous, extra-axillary, 
solitary or 2 or 3 together, sub-globose, from '5 to '75 in. in diani. ; 
pedicels, stout, tomentose, '15 to *25 long, with 2 bracts nearly as large 
as the sepals. Sepals ovate-orbicular, acute, slightly smaller than the 
outer petals, very thick, villous-tomentose outside and glabrous inside 
as are all the petals : inner petals larger than the outer, their apices 
much inflexed in bud. Stamens numerous, with flat, rhomboid heads. 
Ovaries numerous, hirsute. Carpels numerous, cylindric-ovoid, apiculate, 
narrowed to the stalk, sparsely strigose, '5 in. long and *25 in. in diam. ; 
stalks "2 to *3 in. long, strigose pubescent j toniH globular, "4 in. in 
diam. Seed pale, shining. 
Malacca: Maiugay (Kew Distrib.,) Wo. 53. Perak r common at 
low elevations. 
Allied to P. Kurzii, but with larger flowers which have their inner 
petals valvate with much inflexed edges. 
11. Popowia Kukzji, King. A shrub or small tree; young 
branches at first tawny -pubescent, afterwards dark-coloured, glabrous 
and furrowed. Leaves sub-coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, or elliptic-ob- 
long sub-acute or shortly and bluntly acuminate, narrowed to the sub- 
cuneate (sometimes almost rounded) base ; upper surface sub-granular, 
minutely and sparsely adpressed-pubescent ; lower sparsely pubescent ; 
main nerves 9 to 12 pairs, oblique, inter-arching close to the edge, rather 
prominent beneath ; length 5 to 9 in., breadth 1*5 to 3 in. ; petiole 2 to 
25 in , tomentose. Flowers polygamous, solitary, or in pairs, sub-sessile, 
extra-axillary, sub-globose, '4 in. in diam. ; pedicels tomentose, 1 to 2 in. 
long, bracteolate. Sepals smaller than the petals, valvate, semi-orbicular, 
and, like the petals, tomentose externally and glabrous internally. 
Petals sab-equal, concave, the outer ovate-orbicular, valvate ; the inner 
slightly smaller than the outer, imbricate. Stamens numerous, flattened, 
elongate, with linear, lateral anther-cells and flat, oblique, rhomboid 
apices. Ovaries (often absent) about 10, elongate, pubescent, the stigmas 
clavate. Fruit unknown. Polyalthia macrophylla, Hook. fil. and Thorns. 
PI. Br. Ind. I, 63. P. dubia Kurz F. Flora Burma, I, 38. Guatteria 
mmrophytla, Blume Bijdr. 19 j FL Javae Anon. 96. t. 97 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 
Bat. I, Pt. 2, 47. 
South Andaman ; Kurz, King's Collector. Burmah ; province Tcnas- 
serim ; Falconer, Kurz. 
ThiB species appears to be practically dicecious. In its flowers 
the inner petals are distinctly imbricate ; they are not connivent, and 
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