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25. Kingstonia, H. f. and T. 
Trees. Flowers fascicled on cauline tubercles, bisexual. Sepals 
3, persistent, ovate, acute, the bases connate. Petals 6 ; outer valvate ; 
inner smaller, oblong, imbricate. Stamens about 12, the filament half 
the length of the extrorse anther-cells ; connective obliquely truncate. 
Ovary 1 ; stigma sessile, peltate, crenate : ovules few. Ripe carpels 
globose. Seeds several, 2-seriate. 
I, Kinostonia nekvosa, Hook, fit and Thorns. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 93. 
Young branches rusty -pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong, 
rarely elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base rounded ; both surfaces 
glabrons, the nerves and midrib puberulous beneath when young ; main 
nerves 12 to 14 pairs, oblique, rather straight, depressed on the 
upper, strong and prominent on the lower, surface ; length 4 to 8 in., 
breadth 1*5 to 3*25 in. ; petiole "4 iu., puberulous. Flowers '25 in. long, 
in extra-axillary fascicles of 8 or 10 : pedicels *35 to 'h in., slender, 
rusty-pubescent ; bracteoles orbicular, one close to the flower, the others 
basal and imbricate. Sepals ovate, connate at the base, spreading, 
pubescent outside, glabrous within. Outer petals oblong-elliptic, con- 
cave, obtuse, cinereous-tomentose outside, pubescent inside ; inner petals 
smaller, thick, concave and very tomentose, in the upper half. Stamens 
about 15, the connective with a broad truncate apex. Ovary one, oblong, 
angled, pubescent ; ovules 4 to 6. Ripe carpels broadly ovoid, blunt, 
minutely velvety pale-rnsty tomentose, 1*5 in. long and l'l in. in diam.; 
pericarp woody. Seeds about 4, oblong, compressed, separated by 
dissepiments. 
The species above described has only a single pistil. But there 
are, in the Calcutta Herbarium, specimens from Sumatra {Forbes No. 
2713, in fruit but without flower) of what appears to be a second Kings- 
tonia, and in these there are two carpels. If this plant proves to be a 
Kingstonia, the diagnosis of the genus will have to be amended. 
Malacca : Maingay, (Kew Distrib.) No. 22. Perak : Wray, No. 3376. 
26. Mkzzbttia, Beccari. 
Trees. Flowers small, greenish, axillary or from the axils of fallen 
leaves, fasciculate or umbellate. Sepals 3, ovate, valvate. Petals 6, 
valvate, opening late and accrescent, flat, linear, the inner petals smaller 
than the outer. Stamens 9 to 12, in two rows; anther-cells lateral, 
introrse; connectives produced beyond their apices, truncate. Toi'tts 
small, Blightly concave, pubescent. Ovary solitary, ovate, glabrous, con- 
tracted into a very short style; stigma sub-capitate; ovules 2, super- 
posed. Carpel coriaceous, elliptic or globose. Seeds 2, large, compressed. 
Five species, all Malayan. 
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