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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
peeling bark, beneath which they are striated; the leaves are 
5-7j inches long, 2^-3^ inches broad, the petiole being 3^ inches 
long ; they are ranch more raerabranaceous, more reticulated, 
far more sharply acute, than in any of the following species; the 
two principal nerves are united with the midrib for a distance of 
half an inch from the base of the leaf ; the petiole is slender 
and terete. From the branches the natives extract a colouring- 
matter, which is used as a yellow dye. 
2. Fibraurea chloroleuca, nob. ; — ramulis striatis, cortice coriaceo 
' dissiliente; foliis ovato-oblongis, basi rotundatis, apice bre- 
viter et repente constrictis, acuraine canaliculato recurvo 
subemarginato, marginibus revolutis, coriaceis, glaberrimis, 
imo leviter 3-nerviis et longe ultra petiolum triplinerviis, 
supra viridibus, nervis paulo prominulis, eveniis, subtus 
chloroleucis, nervis prominentibus, venis transversis vix reti- 
culatis; petiolo limbo fere dimidio breviore, apice tumido, 
basi valde incrassato et tortuoso ; paniculis axillaribus, S pe- 
tiolo vix longioribus, latissime divaricatis, ramis rachi fere 
sequilongis et horizontaliter patentibus, ramulis sparsis, flori- 
bus majoribus, breviter pedicellatis ; $ petiolo 5-plo longiori- 
bus, ramis petiolum aequantibus, patentim divaricatis, pedi- 
cellis breviusculis, 1-floris, demum drupiferis ; drupis majus- 
culis, subpollicaribus. — Malacca et Borneo, v. s. 6 in herb. 
Lemann., Malacca (Griffiths) ; Borneo (Barber, 284, 129 ; 
Motley, 153); $ yrac^i/. m flooA:., Tavoy (Griffiths). 
This species differs from the preceding in its broader, more 
oval leaves, which are much more attenuated towards the apex, 
thick and coriaceous (not membranaceous), veinless (not reticu- 
lated), and it has larger fruits. The bark is of a greyish colour, 
smooth, thick, and coriaceous, and splits in parallel longitudinal 
fissures : in the Malacca specimens the leaves are 6-7-9 inches 
long, 3 ^ 35-4 inches broad, on a petiole 2 j-2^-3 inches long ; 
the S panicle is compounded, about 4^ inches long, 5 inches 
broad, tapering upwards; its alternate primary slender branches, 
3-5 lines apart, are expanded nearly at a right angle, and have 
alternate spreading branchlets, and the tertiary ramifications 
bear 2-3 flowers on pedicels 2 hues long, all quite glabrous. 
The fructiferous raceme is 16 inches long, its rachis 1 line diam., 
its branches 1-3 inches long, bearing pedicels \ inch long, with 
a tumid apex supporting 1-3 drupes, which are 1 inch long, 
f inch broad when dried. 
The specimens from Borneo form a variety [elongata), in which 
the leaves are much narrower, especially towards the base; the 
male panicle is longer, more racemose, with shorter branches, 
being 6-8 inches long, and 2-2^ inches broad. 
