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Sylhet et in bort. bot. Calc. cult. (Wall. Cat. 4961) ; in herb. 
Hook. $ , Bengal (Griffitbs). 
In all tbe lithographic tickets issued with Wallieh’s specimens 
the specific name is written by mistake planiflorus. The branehes 
are |-1 line in diameter, and the cupuliform axils are 1 inch 
apart ; the leaves are 5^-6-| inches long, 2J-2| inehes broad, 
on a petiole 6-7 lines long, remarkable for the very tumid 
laterally compressed tumescence at its summit. The pedunele 
and pedieels (when 2-flowered) ai-e only 2 lines long, the flowers 
before expansion being f line in diameter. In the $ speeimen 
there are three slender pedicels in eaeh axil, 2^ lines long : the 
pedicel thiekens as the fruit becomes matured; the drupe is 
glabrous, polished, 5 lines long, 4^ lines broad, the epicarp 
being corrugated, from which we may infer that it was filled 
w’ith pulp before it became dried; the putamen is smooth, thin, 
and chartaceous. 
2. Pycnarrhena tumefacta, nob.; — scandens, ramulis teretibus 
striatis ; foliis lanceolato-oblongis, imo paulo angustioribus 
et obtusis, summum versus sensim angustioribus, et ad apicem 
lineari-attenuatis, acumine angusto et obtusulo, penninerviis, 
nervis utrinque 7-8, alternatis, fere ad marginem protensis et 
hie arcuatim nexis, supra lucidis, in nervis sulcatis, valde 
reticulatis, subtus paliidis, nervis prominentibus, glabris ; 
petiolo tereti, apice longe tumefacto, tumore superue valde 
canaliculate, deorsum profunde dilatato et eompresse sublami- 
niformi : paniculis supra-axillaribus, 3-4, fasciculatis, petiolo 
2-plo longioribus, laxe ramosis ; rachi ramisque tenuibus, 
flexuosis, breviter et rigide pilosulis ; floribus parvis ; sepalis 6 
exterioribus minimis, apice ciliolatis, 3 interioribus obrotun- 
datis, valde concavis, glabris, carnosulis, marginibus membra- 
naceis ; petalis 6, triple brevioribus ; antheris 9, seriebus 3 
in capitulum centrale fere sessile acervatim aggregatis. — In 
Borneo : v. s. in herb. Hook. (J, Banjarmassing (Mottley, 357). 
This is said to be “a very large elimber, with white flowers. 
The axils are about 1 inch apart ; the leaves are 9 inches long, 
2^ inches broad, with a narrow acuminated apex f inch long, 
1 line broad, the petiole being l|~lj inch long, with a deeply 
channelled tumefaction at its apex, 6 lines long, f line broad, 
and 2 lines deep ; the panicles are nearly 2 inches long, their 
branches ^ inch long, the pedicels 1^ line, the flowers very small. 
3. Pycnarrhena mecistophylla, nob. ; — ramulis teretibus, tomen- 
tosis ; axillis approximatis ; foliis longissimis, lanceolatis, imo 
rotundiusculis, apice anguste attenuatis, penninerviis, nervis 
utrinque 10-12, tenuibus, marginem versus arcuatim nexis, 
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