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channelled above and bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade ; 
stipules small, ovate-falcate, densely ferruginous-pubescent. Flowers 
fascicled, 3-4 together, in the axils of upper leaves or of terminal 
leafless branchlets, giving the appearance of a terminal corymbose 
inflorescence ; pedicels '8 to 1 in. long, densely rusty-pubescent, 
recurved; buds ovate, - 25 in. long, obtuse. Galyx-lohes 4, outer pair 
rouuded, thick, appressed pubescent to nearly glabrous ; inner pair 
thinner, scarious, ciliate. Corolla campanulate, - 3 to - 4 in. long, longer 
than the calyx, glabrous ; lobes 8, oblong, cordate at base, crenate or 
ciliate on the margins, veined ; tube as long as lobes. Stamens 16, usually 
in 2 rows ; filaments slender, glabrous ; anthers ovate, the connective 
broad and produced in a broad glabrous acumen, sharp in bud, flattened 
later on. Ovary linsar-oblong ; style slender, -5 in. long. Fruit an 
obpyriform fleshy berry, 15 in. long and -75 in. broad, surmounted by 
the persistent conical style, seed 1. Seed oblong, 1 in. long, -6 in. broad, 
flattened ; testa crustaceous, shining, chestnut-brown ; hilum narrow, 
elongated ; albumen thick ; cotyledons broadly oblong, -5 in. long, 
nerved; radicle rather large, nearly -15 in. long. 
Kedah : Lankawi Island, Ridley 8329. Penang : Curtis 111. 
Singapoee: Ridley 4959, 9203. — Distrib. Borneo, Haviland 2098, 
2320. 
P. Croixiana, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. I. 524 seems to be this 
species or very near it. The following is Pierre’s description : — 
A huge tree. Leaves oval or sub-oblong, long acuminate, glabrous ; 
2-3 in. long, -3 in. broad; main-nerves 24 to 28, petiole -25 in. 
Floivers 3, axillary, sub-terminal; peduncles -2 to -3 in. long, '6 in. in 
fruit. Sepals ovate, ciliate. Corolla-tube pubescent without ; lobes 
oblong, truncate at the apex, ciliate ; filaments very short ; anthers sub- 
oblong with a long connective, obtuse, pilose on both sides. Ovary 
8-celled, tomentose, urceolate at the base of the style. Berry oblong, 
•8-1-2 in. long, -5-'6 in. broad, glabrous, 1-seeded ; pericarp -06 in. 
thick ; hilum under -04 in. broad, laterally extended over the whole 
height ; cotyledons -8 in. long ; -02 in. broad, radicle T4 in. long. 
Malacca : St. Pol Lias ; Mad. Errington de la Croix in Paris Mus. 
“ Sundek." 
4. Payena Leeeii, Benth. & Hook. f. ; Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. 
Par. i. 524 (1885). A tree, reaching 80 to 100 feet in height and a con- 
siderable girth ; branchlets grey, slender ; innovations minutely rusty- 
pubescent. Leaves chartaceous ; elliptic, abruptly acuminate at apex, 
acute or somewhat rounded at base ; upper surface glabrous, shining, 
lower surface sparsely pubescent to glabrous ; margins undulate, re- 
curved ; 2 to 4 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib prominent, impressed 
