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VI. ANON ACE JE. 
[Poiyallhia. 
13 . POLYALTHIA, Blume. 
Trees or occasionally shrubs. Leaves usually coriaceous. Sepals 
3, valvate or sub-imbricate. Petals 6 in. 2 series, ovate to 
linear, flat, or the inner ones slightly vaulted. Torus convex. 
Stamens cuneate; anther-cells extrorse. Pistils indefinite; ovules 
i to 5, basal and erect, or sub-basal and ascending. Carpels 
i-seeded, drupaceous. Species 50, tropical Asia, a few in Africa 
and Australasia. 
[a) Flowers on tubercles on the stem. Petals narrow 
lanceolate to linear. 
Flowers solitary, 3 in. long, glabrous; fruit 1*5 in. 
long . (1) P. Wrayi 
Flowers several, 2 in. long, pubescent; fruit 1 in. 
long . (2) P. desmantha 
Flowers, petals very narrow, linear, crowded on 
trunk; fruit red, tomentose . . . (3) P. stenopetala 
(6) Flowers mostly on branches {some also on stem- 
tubercles). 
Petals narrow lanceolate about 2 in. long. 
Leaves thin not glaucous. Trees nearly glabrous. 
Flowers flesh colour or brown 
Flowers yellow or orange; pedicels 1-50 in. 
long .. 
Pedicels *5 in. long; flowers smaller 
Branches and fruit large, short pedicelled 
red, hairy ...... 
Leaves stiff, rigid glaucous beneath 
Dwarf shrub, leaves broad .... 
Petals very narrow, linear, about 2-50 in. long, 
not spreading ..... 
Petals very narrow, linear, about 5 in. long, 
spreading ...... 
Petals very small, under -5 in. long, lanceolate; 
leaves glaucous ..... 
Flowers very small, hardly -5 in. wide. 
Leaves narrow linear acuminate; fruit and 
flowers glabrous ..... 
Leaves lanceolate, narrow; fruit glabrous 
Leaves lanceolate-acu minate; petals lance¬ 
olate, hairy ...... 
Leaves lanceolate; petals oblong ovate. 
Petals hairy; fruit hairy .... 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, shortly narrowed at 
base . . 
Leaves oblong, base minutely cordate 
(c) Flowers 1 in. long in clusters on the branches; 
branches hairy. 
Leaves bullate, 12 to 14 in. long; shrub 
Leaves lanceolate 6 in. long, not bullate, hairy 
beneath ...... 
(4) P. Beccarii 
(5) P. cauliflora 
(6) P. pycnantha 
(7) P. cinnamomea 
(8) P. sumatrana 
(9) P. pumila 
(10) P. angustissima 
(n) P. asteriella 
(12) P. hypoleuca 
(13) P. dumosa 
(14) P. parviflora 
(15) P. hirta 
(16) P. montana 
(17) P. Kunstleri 
(18) P. obliqua 
(19) P. bullata 
(20) P. velutinosa 
(d) Flowers rather or quite large, on the boughs. 
Petals broad, thin-textured, on the boughs. 
Flowers 4 in. across (adult); leaves when young 
hairy.(21) P. Scortechinii 
