IK. 
dotted. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the 
base acute ; both surfaces glabrous, minutely reticulate; main nerves 
about 10 pail's, spreading, very faint, the secondary nerves almost as 
distinct; length 3 to 45 in., breadth 1'5 to 175 in., petiole '25 in. 
Flowers solitary or in pairs, pendent, 1*5 in. long: pedicel very short 
with 1 to 3 orbicular, amplexicaul, glabrous bracteoles. Sepals ovate, 
obtuse, tuberclod, connate to the middle. Petals linear oblong, slightly 
expanded and concave at the base, hoary, pubescent ; the inner narrower 
and shorter than the outer, sub-trigonous. Stamens numerous, the inner 
rudimentary : apical process rounded ; anthers linear, septate. Ovaries 
2 to 4, pilose, inulti-o volar : style short. Ripe carpels cylindric, blunt at 
each end, much tuborcled, puberulons, 1*5 in. long and about 75 in, in 
diam. Seed* 7 or 8, compressed, the testa pale, scaly. 
Singapore : Maingay (Kew Distribution, in part) No. 84, King's 
Collector No. 7079. 
3. Xylopia Malayana, Hook. fiL and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 125. A 
slender tree : young branches thin, glabrous, tho buds pubescent. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base cuneate; 
both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves about 8 pairs, faint, spreading ; 
length 3 5 to 5 in., breadth 1*5 to 2 in., petiole *2 in. Flowers "6 to '9 in. 
long, solitary or in pairs, axillary; pedicels rufous-pubescent, '1 in. 
long, with several bracteoles at the base. Sepals broadly ovate, sub- 
acute, puberulous outside and on the edges, glabrous inside, '15 in. long 
and as broad. Petals linear-oblong, tapering to the apex, concave and 
glabrous at the slightly expanded base, densely pubescent elsewhere ; 
the inner slightly narrower and shorter than the outer and more con- 
cave at the base. Stamens numerous, the apices rhomboid, papillose ; 
the anthers long, lateral, with transverse divisions. Pistils about 6 ; 
the ovaries oblong, douscly pale- hirsute, about as long as the stamens, 
2-ovuled ; stylos about as long as the ovaries and projecting far above 
the stamens, glabrous, sub-cylindric, clavato. Ripe carpels (tide Maingay) 
*35 to 1 in., several-seeded ; stalk short, thick. Hook. fil. and Thorns. 
Fl. Br. Ind. I, 85 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 38. Farartabotrys sum- 
atrana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 374 ; Scheffer in Nat. Tijdsch. Ned. 
Ind. XXXI, 15. 
Malacca; Griffith, Derry, Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 81. Singa- 
pore, Ridley. Perak ; Scortechini. Distrib., Sumatra, 
4. Xylopia Maingayi, Hook. til. and Thorns. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 85. A 
tree ? Youug brauches rusty-pubescent, afterwards glabrous and with 
white dots. Leaves small, coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, subacute 
or obtusely acuminate, the base sub-cuncate : both surfaces glabrous and 
reticulate, the upper pale, the lower dark; main nerves slender ; length 2 
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