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Petals 3, thick, rotund, very concave and much, imbricate, glabrous inside, 
sometimes puberulous outside. Staminal column fleshy, globular-ovoid, 
obscurely 3-angled, the mouth almost closed; aethers 3, broadly elliptic, 
narrowed to the apex, shortly apiculate; rudimentary ovary minute, 
conical, on a small pubescent disc. Female flowers unknown ; the fruit 
in simple spikes as long as or longer than the leaves, pinkish when ripe, 
shortly pedicellate, sub-globular, 3-celled, 3-seeded, dehiscent, about 
*75 in. in diam. ; the seeds ovoid, compressed, with a scarlet arillus. C. 
DC. Monogr. Phaner. I., 581. 
Perak: Scortecliini, Wray, King’s Collector. Penang: Curtis, 
King. Distrib. Sumatra. 
This species resembles A. Rohituka, W. and A., but it is a smaller 
tree, the male flowers have only 3 stamens, and the petals are pink. 
The Perak specimens agree with those in the Leiden Herbarium from 
Sumatra oil which Miquel founded the species. Miquel in his descrip¬ 
tion does not mention that the plant is triandrous,—a character by which 
it can at once be recognised. 
2. Amoora Rohituka, W. and A. Prod. 119. A tree from 30 to 
70 feet high ; young branches stout, lenticellate, at first puberulous, 
afterwards glabrous. Leaves 1 to 3 feet long, unequally pinnate, the 
petioles puberulous; leaflets 9 to 35, sub-coriaceous, opposite, oblong to 
elliptic-oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, entire ; the base nar¬ 
rowed, often oblique ; both surfaces glabrous : main nerves 12 to 15 
pairs, spreading ; length 3 to 9 in., breadth 1*75 to 3*5 in., petiolule *2 to 
*3 in. Male flowers about *35 in. long, sub-globular, in solitary axillary 
panicles more than half as long as the leaves, the branches about 3 in. 
long, spreading at right angles or slightly drooping; the flowers nume¬ 
rous, each with a minute scale-like bract, the pedicels short, stout. 
Calyx very short, spreading, with 5 or 6 small reniform sepals, pubescent. 
Petals 3, much larger than the calyx, orbicular, concave, glabrous or 
puberulous on the outer surface. Staminal tube nearly as long as the 
petals, sub-globular, with a small opening at the apex showing the 
slightly protruding apices of the anthers : anthers 6, sub-sessile, nar¬ 
rowly elliptic, attached to the tube near its base ; rudimentary ovary 
ellipsoid, boldly 3-angled. Female flowers larger than the males, in 
axillary or slightly supra-axillary, solitary, often puberulous spikes 
much shorter than the leaves. Sepals sometimes more pubescent than 
in the male : petals as in the male, the anthers narrower. Ovary sub- 
globular or ellipsoid with a 3-lobed stigma: disc hypogynous, broadly 
conical, tawny-pubescent. Fruit sub-globular, yellow when ripe, 1 to 
1*5 in. in diam.; the pericarp coriaceous, smooth, 3-celled, opening by 
3 valves : seed oblong with a scarlet arillus. Hiern in Hook. fil. FI. 
