Baccaurea.] 
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ends; nerves 6 pairs inarching inconspicuous; 4-25 in. wide; 
petioles slender, 1 in. long. Flowers unknown. Fruiting spikes 
1-25 in. long. Capsule dark yellow, oblong narrowed to the base 
with 2 ribs with very short stigma, -4 in. long, -2 in. through; 
pedicels *i in. long. Hab. Dense jungle, Perak, Kinta (Kunstler). 
Johor, Castlewood (Ridley). 
Rare; the specimens are very poor, 
(5) B. Kingii Gage, Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. l.c. 231. B. sp. A. 
Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 373. 
Tree 40 to 50 ft. tall, glabrous, bark almost black. Leaves 
thin chartaceous elliptic or lanceolate acuminate, base slightly 
narrowed; nerves 4 to 6 pairs very slender, nervules faint; 3 to 
4 in. long, 1-5 to 275 in. wide; petioles slender, 1 in. long. Male 
racemes on branches -5 to 1 in. long, tomentose; flowers clustered 
on very short branchlets. Bracts very small ovate. Sepals 4, 
ovate blunt tomentose outside. Stamens 4. Female spikes 1 in. 
long; flowers distant entirely tomentose. Sepals ovate blunt. 
Ovary ovoid tomentose. Stigma peltate pustular. Fruit-racemes 
2 in. long, tomentose. Fruit obovoid 4-angled, -25 in. long, sparsely 
hairy. Hab. Forests, Singapore, Bajau; Bukit Timah, Perak, 
Tapah (Wray); Larut and Goping (Kunstler). Penang (Kunstler); 
Government Hill (Curtis). 
Allied to B. minor, but the nervules are irregular and the fruit is ovoid. 
(6) B. minor Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 370. 
Tree 20 to 30 ft. tall, shoots pubescent; branchlets slender. 
Leaves glabrous thinly coriaceous, dark green, nerves yellow; 
drying yellow-green ovate or ovate lanceolate acuminate-caudate, 
base narrowed; nerves 5 to 6 pairs, elevate beneath; 3 to 3*5 in. 
long, 1-5 in. wide; petioles slender, -5 in. long. Male racemes 
•5 to 1 in. long. Flowers yellow very small crowded, sessile on 
very short side-branches with a persistent bract at the tip. Sepals 4, 
ovate pubescent. Stamens 4, short. Female racemes from 
branches 3 to 10 in. long, brown-tomentose. Sepals oblong 
blunt, *12 in. long, tomentose. Ovary globose tomentose. Fruiting 
racemes 6 to 10 in. long, brown-tomentose. Capsule sub-globose 
dehiscent minutely velvety dark yellow, *3 in. through; pericarp 
coriaceous, splitting in 3 valves. Seeds 3, rarely 4, globose in 
yellow aril, suspended by placenta after fall of pericarp. Hab. 
Forests; Singapore, Bukit Timah; Bukit Mandai, Garden Jungle, 
Perak, Batang Padang; Dipang; Larut and Ulu Bubong (Kunstler). 
(7) B. Wallichii Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 375. 
A tree 30 to 40 ft. tall, stem 12 to 15 in. through, glabrous. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous pale, elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate 
bluntly caudate acuminate, base long-acute; nerves 5 to 7 pairs, 
elevate beneath; 5 to 6 in. long, 2-5 in. wide; petioles slender, 
x*5 in. long. Male flowers unknown. Female racemes 1 to 2 in. 
long, slender pubescent. Bracts very broad short. Sepals *25 in. 
long, linear-oblong blunt finely pubescent. Ovary ellipsoid densely 
