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cylindrical, the top rusty-hirsute; style as long as corolla, subulate, 
glabrous ; cells 6. Fruit a fleshy oblong or obovate berry, smooth, 
•75 in. long, ‘5 in. thick, 1-seeded. 
Penang : Curtis 3583, 3659. Perak : Wray 3984 ; King’s Collector 
6506, 6509. Singapore : Ridley 6019, 6134, 6502, 6507 ; Fox 11307 
at Bukit Timah ; Cantley73. — Distrib. Bangka. 
Said to give a kind of “ guttapercha.” 
8. Palaquium Bidleyi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree (?) ; branch- 
lets blackish-grey, rough, innovations minutely rusty-pubescent. Leaves 
chartaceous-eoriaceous ; elliptic or elliptie-obovate, obtuse, emarginate 
or slightly acute at apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous on both surfaces, 
margins slightly recurved ; 2 to 3 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib broad ; 
main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs, starting at an angle of about 50° with the 
midrib, curving upwards to and along the margin, -2 to -3 in. apart ; 
reticulations many, transverse, impressed above ; petiole -5 to -7 in. 
long flattened and bordered by the decurrent broad margins of the 
blade ; stipules small, ovate, hirsute, caducous. Flowers small, fas- 
cicled in groups of 6 or 7 together in the axils of the uppermost leaves ; 
pedicels rather thick, about - 25 in. long, sparsely appressed-pubescent. 
Calyx-lobes 6, - 1 in. long; 3 outer rounded, shortly mucronate, glabrous, 
wrinkled when dry ; 3 inner thin, scarious on the margins, ciliate, rusty- 
pubescent on both sides. Corolla tubular-eampanulate, -15 in. long, 
glabrous ; lobes 6, oblong, obtuse, erose at tip ; tube as long as 
lobes. Stamens 12, inserted on the top of the tube opposite to and 
alternate with the lobes; filaments slender as long as the lobes; 
anthers ovate-acute. Ovary conical, glabrous below, villous above, 
surmounted by a conical thick style, - 05 in. long, 6-celled. Fruit 
not seen. 
Singapore : Ridley 3591a. 
9. Palaquium microphyllum, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree (?) ; 
branchlets rounded, rough, dotted with scars of fallen leaves and 
flowers ; innovations dark ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves coriaceous ; 
obovate, obtuse or slightly obtusely- acute at apex, cuneate at base ; 
glabrous on both surfaces, margins recurved ; 1 to 2 in. long, -7 to 
1 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed above ; main-nerves indistinct, 
about 8 to 10 pairs, nearly at right angles to the midrib ; reticulations 
very faint even when dry ; petiole - 4 to -5 in. long, bordered above by 
the decurrent margins of the blade. Flowers fascicled, 1 to 3 together, 
above the scars of fallen leaves on the past year’s wood ; pedicels -2 in. 
long, rusty-pubescent. Calyx-lobes 6 ; outer 3 valvate, ovate-acute, 
•15 to ‘2 in. long, densely tawny-pubescent ; inner 3 imbricate, ovate, 
