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blunt, scarious and ciliate on the margins, tawny-pubescent on the back, 
■1 to -15 in. long. Corolla tubular-rotate; the tube very short, scarcely 
•05 in. long ; the 6 lobes oblong or nearly spathulate, '1 to ‘15 in. long, 
reflexed in flower, sparsely hairy without. Stamens 12, filaments 
slender, recurved ; anthers ovate, ’075 in. long, bi-mucronate. Ovary 
tawny-villous, conical; style '15 to -2 in. long, straight; cells 6. 
Fruit not seen. 
Singapore : at Bukit Timah, Ridley 10840. 
10. Palaquium hexandrum, King & Gamble. A tree ; branehlets 
light brown, innovations ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves chartaceous, 
glabrous ; elliptic-oblong, shortly and bluntly acute at apex, attenuate 
and more or less unequal at base ; 4 to 5 in. long, 2 to 2 - 5 in. broad ; 
midrib thick, prominent ; main-nerves 10 to 13 pairs, starting at about 
65° to midrib then arched upwards, reticulations obscure. Flowers 
fasciculate, 3 to 4 together in the axils of the leaves or the scars of 
fallen leaves ; pedicels slender, '4 in. long, minutely pubescent. Calyx- 
lobes 6 ; 3 outer valvate, 3 inner more or less imbricate, pubescent 
outside, ciliate, ‘05 to '07 in. long, apex scarcely acute. Corolla cam- 
panulate ; tube '1 in. with a ring of hairs near the mouth inside ; lobes 6, 
imbricate, -15 in. long, oblong obtuse, spreading. Stamens 12, inserted 
on the top of the tube, 6 opposite to and 6 alternate with the lobes, 
the alternate ones shorter ; filaments slender ; anthers exsert, ovate- 
lanceolate, bi-mucronate, as long as filaments. Ovary rounded, thickly 
rusty-pubescent; style subulate, -25 in. long. Fruit a fleshy berry, 
about -75 in. in diam,, smooth, 1-seeded. Seed ovoid, -7 in. long, -5 in. 
broad, scarcely flattened; testa thin, brown, shining; hilum very 
large, occupying about one-half of the seed ; albumen none. 
Dichopsis hexandra, Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. iii. 543. Ison- 
andra hexandra, Griff. Notul. IV. 292. Payena Griffithii, Kurz For. 
FI. II. 121, and Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 230 (fide Clarke, 
but with doubt). 
Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3609 ; Maingay (K.D.) 984. Singapore : 
Ridley 11373. — Distrib. Burma (?) 
11. Palaquium Herveyi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A large tree ; 
branehlets rather stout, dark brown ; innovations minutely rusty- 
pubescent ; leaf-bud scales lanceolate, '15 in. Leaves chartaceo-cori- 
aceous ; elliptic or elliptic-obovate, very shortly acute or sometimes emar- 
ginate at apex, cuneately attenuate often unequally at base ; glabrous 
above except on midrib and nerves, sparsely rusty-pubescent beneath, 
afterwards glabrate, cinereous when dry ; 2 to 3-5 in. long, 1-25 to l - 75 in. 
broad ; midrib prominent ; main-nerves 5 to 7 pairs at about 45° with 
the midrib and arching upwards, reticulations obscure ; petiole - 5 in. long 
