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by the persistent base of the style and supported by the persistent 
calyx-lobes, nearly 1 in. long. Seed 1, oblong, acute at the top, 
•7 in. long, -35 in. broad, and about -3 in. thick ; testa shining, 
crustaceous, chestnut-brown ; hilum -15 to '2 in. broad ; albumen none ; 
cotyledons thick, inner face somewhat striate ; radicle rather large, 
inferior. Payena malaccensis, Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 547. 
Keratephorus Wightii, Maingay MS. ( not of Hassk.). 
Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3610; Maingay (K.D.) 992. Perak: Wray 
1229 ; Scortechini 314. Singapore : Ridley 2082, 2757, 5643, 6042, 
6132, 6133, 6498, 6499, 6500, 6531, 8078, 10159. 
Wray says this species gives only a sticky gutta in small quantities. 
6. Bassia Curtisii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree, reaching 40 to 
50 feet in height ; branches greyish-brown, strongly marked by the scars 
of fallen leaves and the prominent tubercles of fallen flowers, innovations 
very slightly rusty-pubescent, thick. Leaves very coriaceous ; clustered 
at the ends of the branchlets, obovate or sometimes lanceolate-obovate, 
obtuse emarginate or very suddenly and shortly blunt-acuminate ; 
glabrous on both surfaces, margins strongly recurved ; 4 to 6 in. long, 
1-25 to 2'5 in. broad ; midrib stout, prominent ; main-nerves not promi- 
nent, 14 to 15 pairs, at an angle of about 70° with the midrib, - 3 to -4 in. 
apart, straight, joined near the margin by a looped intramarginal nerve ; 
secondary nerves prominent, reticulations few ; all raised on the under 
surface ; petiole -7 to 1 in. long, rather thick, bordered by the decurrent 
margins of the blade, base swollen. Flowers fascicled, many (10 to 12) 
together on prominent tubercles in the axils of the scars of fallen leaves 
below the leaf-cluster, and covering the branchlets densely for a 
distance of about 4 in. ; pedicels -25 (buds) to - 5 (flower) in. long, 
somewhat angular, decurved, densely pale tawny-pubescent ; buds 
ovoid-conical. Calyx-lobes rounded, obtuse, densely tawny-pubescent, 
■2 in. long, the outer pair thick, the inner somewhat keeled, scarious on 
the margins. Corolla campanulate, rather longer than the calyx ; tube 
short, glabrous except for the ring of hairs at the insertion of the 
stamens ; lobes 8, oblong spathulate, ciliate and hirsute at the tip. 
Stamens 16 ; filaments short, slender, villous ; anthers ovate-acute, the 
connective ending in a sharp conical acumen, extrorse. Ovary rounded, 
villous ; style thick glabrous, stigmas minute ; cells 8. Fruit an oblong 
berry, covered without with appressed golden pubescence, - 5 to - 7 in. 
long, -5 in. broad, crowned with the persistent style and supported by 
the persistent calyx ; seeds 1-2, placentas thin. Seeds oblong, pointed 
at the ends ; testa crustaceous, shining ; hilum narrow ; albumen none ; 
cotyledons thick, fleshy, radicle small. 
