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beneath ; main-nerves very numerous, parallel, nearly at right angles 
to midrib, meeting in an intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves 
similar, reticulations slanting; petiole thick, -25 in. long, pubescent. 
Flowers small, in rounded axillary fascicles ; pedicels slender, -1 to 
•2 in. long, ferruginous-pubescent. Calyx-lobes 5, ovate, glabrous 
or pubescent outside, thick, ciliate on the margins, -07 to -1 in. 
long; tube short. Corolla tubular-campanulate, '1 in. long; lobes 5, 
short, ciliate on the margins. Stamens 5, shorter than the corolla, 
opposite the corolla-lobes and inserted on the base of the tube ; 
filaments slender ; anthers ovate, apiculate and ending in a minute 
tuft of hairs, extrorse, slits somewhat lateral. Ovary rounded, obscurely 
5-lobed, surrounded by a thick tuft of long ferruginous hairs ; style 
thick, cylindro-conical, glabrous ; cells 5. Fruit a globose or obscurely 
5-lobed berry 1 to 1'5 in. in diam., strongly 5-lobed when dry, 
ferruginous-tomentose when young afterwards smooth, yellowish- 
green, with thick glutinous pulp. Seeds -6 in. long, -5 in. broad, 
flattened, the outer edge curved, the inner nearly straight ; hilum 
oblong, conspicuous, pale ; testa very hard, thick, shining, chestnut- 
brown ; embryo erect, cotyledons flat, -4 in. broad, ovate, obtuse, 
3-nerved; radicle large, eylindrie. A. DC. Prod. VIII. 162; Clarke 
in Hook. f. PL Br. Ind. III. 535 ; Bedd. PL Sylv. t. 236 ; Kurz 
For. PL II. 118 and in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. (1877) 228; 
Trimen Pl. Ceyl. III. 76; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 138; Cooke Bomb. 
Pl. II. 88 ; Burck Ann. Gard. Buit. V. i. (1886), 4 ; Koord. & Val. 
Bijdr. I. 130. C. acuminatum, Boxb. PL Ind. I. 599; Wall. Cat. 4160 
(: not of Lamk.). C. lanceolatim, A. DC. l.c. ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. II. 
1035. C. javanicum, Steud. Norn. Ed. II. i. 359. Nycteristition 
lanceolatum, Bl. Bijdr. 676. 
Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3600 ; Maingay (K.D.) 980; Goodenough 
1739. Singapore : Ridley 2756, 5837. — Distrib. British India ; 
Burma ; Java ; Sumatra. 
Curtis No. 1072, collected at Batu Ferengy, Penang, and now in the Kew 
Herbarium, seems to be a new species of Chrysophyllum. The leaves are chartaceous, 
lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, glabrous, shining, 2 to 4 in. long, -75 to 
1 in. broad, the veins indistinct. Flowers unknown. Fruit a fleshy berry, -5 in. 
in diam., 5-lobed when dry, glabrous. Seeds -4 in. long, -25 in. broad, rounded on 
the outside, narrowed and somewhat concave within ; testa hard, dark chestnut- 
brown, shining; hilum narrow. It might be called C. Curtisii, n. sp., King & 
Gamble. 
2. Sarcosperma, Hook. f. 
Glabrous trees. Leaves coriaceous or chartaceous, opposite and 
alternate, oblong ; stipules caducous. Flowers small, sessile or fascicled 
