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1895,] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Perak: King’s Collector, Nos. 10553, 10580, and probably also 
No. 10181. 
17. Dysoxylum flavescens, Hiern in Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. I, 549. 
A tree. Leaves 1 to 2 feet long; leaflets 9 to 13, membranous, alternate, 
elliptic, oblique, shortly acuminate, glabrous; the base slightly oblique, 
rounded; main nerves numerous, sub-horizontal, very indistinct on both 
surfaces, the midrib prominent especially on the lower; length 3 to 5 in., 
breadth 1*25 to 2 in., petiolules *2 to ’25 in. Spikes axillary, 2 to 4 in. 
long. Flowers crowded, '35 in. long, sub-sessile, 4-merous, puberulous. 
Calyx very short, nearly flat, 4-toothed, roughly puberulous. Petals 4, 
minutely pilose outside, glabrous inside, slightly imbricated, pale yellow. 
Staminal-tube glabrous below, slightly pilose above, its mouth crenate. 
Anthers 8 or 10, ovate, included. Disc glabrous, exceeding the ovary, 
dull reddish-orange, its mouth entire or undulate. Ovary minutely 
4-furrowed, hairy, 4-eelled; style cylindrical, hairy; stigma discoid. 
C. DC. in Mon. Phan. I, 494. 
Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 321. 
This is known only by Maingay’s scanty and incomplete specimens. 
The [preceding description is largely taken from Maingay and 
Hiern. 
18. Dysoxylum andamanicum, King n. sp. A tree 20 to 30 feet 
high. Leaves 6 to 30 in. long, unequally pinnate, the petiole and rachises 
angled, very pale when dry; leaflets 3 to 5, membranous, alternate, 
oblong to ovate, slightly oblique, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base 
cuneate or rounded, both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves 6 to 10 pairs, 
spreading: length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1*35 to 1'75 in., petiolules '25 in. 
Spikes slightly supra-axillary, 1 to 2 in. long, few-flowered, puberulous. 
Flowers '35 in. long, their pedicels about 2 in., puberulous. Calyx a 
shallow minutely 4-toothed glabrous cup. Petals 4, much longer than 
the calyx and slightly imbricate, oblong, sub-acute, convex at the apex, 
pale puberulous especially externally, reflexed, rarely deciduous. Stami- 
nal tube shorter than the petals, widely cylindric, slightly inflated 
near the base, slightly puberulous, the mouth with 9 or 10 broad erose 
teeth. Stamens 8 to 10, alternate with the teeth; anthers shortly 
ovate, slightly exserted. Disc fleshy, annular, crenulate, shorter than 
and adherent to the ovary at it3 base. Ovary conic, densely white 
pubescent, tapering into the stout style ; stigma included, discoid with a 
small annulus at its base. Fruit depressed-globular, obscurely 3-grooved, 
glabrous, the pericarp thickly coriaceous, 1*25 in. in diam. Seeds 2 or 3, 
elliptic. 
South Andaman : King’s Collector. 
19. Dysoxylum rugulosum, King n. sp. A tree 15 to 25 feet high : 
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