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sub-acute, or shortly and obtusely acuminate, the base cuneate ; both 
surfaces glabrous, the lower pale and prominently reticulate when dry : 
main nerves 6 to 9 pairs, slightly prominent beneath, ascending; length 
4*5 to 8 in., breadth 15 to 3 in., petiole ; '4 to "6 in. Panicles crowded 
near the apices of the branches, many-flowered, 2 to 4 in. long. Calyx- 
lobes deltoid, minutely velvety outside. Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, 
puberulous externally. Stametis broadly ovoid, minutely but obtusely 
apiculate. Ovary pubemlous : stigma sub-capitate, lobed. Ripe fruit 
ovoid-globose, about *75 in. in diam., closely embraced by the slightly 
shorter, much thickened, persistent, fibrous or woody, rugose, enlarged 
calyx-lobes. V. Wallichii Dyer in, Journ. Bot. 1878 p. 154. Vattea 
ruminata, Burck in Ann. Jard. Bot Huiteuzorg, VI, 227 t. 29, fig. 4, 
Penang : Wallich, Cat. No. 9018 ; Curtis Nos, 1161, 1218, 1391. 
Malacca: Maingay No, 201. Trang, King's Collector. Johore, Hullett 
and King. Per&k; QOBU&OEBL At low elevations, Kind's Collected?, Seor- 
techini. Distrir., Bangka. 
In the young stages of the fruit of this species the calyx is quite 
small and embraces only the very base of it, much as in Isauxis ; but as 
the fruit expands the calyx grows, so that when ripe the fruit is, with 
the exception of its apex, closely embraced by the much thickened, 
liguified, obscurely toothed calyx- tube. This offers, therefore, a transi- 
tion between Isauxis and Pachynocarpus. And, indeed, it is to the former 
Bection that' Dyer refers it (Journ. Bot., 1. c.), and to which Burck 
refers bis D, ruminata, a Rpecies which authentic specimens shew to be 
identical with this. Dr. Burck 's species, Vatica verrucosa (Ann. Jard. 
Bot. Buitenzorg) appears also to come very near to this, 
2. Pacuynocabpus Stapfianus, King, n. sp. A tree 80 to 100 
feet high young branches rather stout, scaly-pubescent at first, ulti- 
mately glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, broadly elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 
the apex broadly rounded, slightly narrowed to the rounded or sub- 
cuneate base: upper surface glabrous, ehiniug, the lower paler, minutely 
and sparsely scurfy-puberulous on the midrib and nerves ; main nerves 
10 to 13 pairs, oblique, prominent on the lower, depressed on the 
upper, surface ; leugth 5 to S in., breadth 2'75 to 4*5 in., petiole "65 
to 1 in. Flowers unknown. Pipe fruit almost solitary, 2"5 to 3 iu. 
long, on a woody raceme, globular, slightly apiculate, 1*25 in. diam., 
closely invested by the gamosepalous, 5-toothed, thickened, woody, 
rugose, glaberulous calyx. 
Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 5932 and 6132, 
This very distinct species was first recognised as a Pachynocarpus 
by Dr. O. Stapf, of the Kew Herbarium, after whom I have named it. 
Its flowers are as yet unknown ; but it is readily identified by its leaves. 
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