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VI. ANON ACE Ai. 
Leaves pubescent beneath; tree .... 
Leaves glabrous. 
Trees or shrubs. 
Buds conic; fruit globose or ovoid • 
Buds globose; fruit cylindric; leaves 6 in. long 
Buds conic; fruit cylindric; leaves 3 in. long . 
Climber; buds conic; leaves stiff, 6 in. long, 
lanceolate . . • • * • 
[Alphonsea. 
(1) A. Maingayi 
(2) A. lucida 
(3) A. sub-dehiscens 
(4) A. cylindrica 
(5) A, Curtisii 
(1) A. Maingayi Hook. fil. F.B.I. i. 90; King, Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. l.c. 125; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. l.c. 161, pi. 205B. 
A medium-sized tree; branches spreading, bark black. Leaves 
coriaceous glabrous, dark shining green, elliptic-oblong to lanceo¬ 
late, obtusely acuminate, base rounded; nerves 8 to 9 pairs, 
inarching far from the margin, reticulations conspicuous beneath, 
edges and midrib hairy; 5 to 7 in. long, 15 to 27 in. wide; petioles 
■25 in. long. Flowers extra-axillary solitary or shortly racemed, 
peduncles tomentose. Sepals veiy small sub-orbicular, brown- 
hairy. Petals silky, pale flesh-colour, outer ones base gibbous, 
above lanceolate sub-acute, tips recurved, inner ones erect tips 
shortly recurved, a little smaller, fleshy with a cential groove, 75 
in. long. Stamens in 3 rows, filaments connate in three bundles ; 
anthers elliptic; appendages o. Ovaries 7; styles brown-hairy 
cylindric; stigma orbicular white. Ovules 20. Carpels ovoid, 
short-stalked, 2 in. long, 1 in. through, tomentose. Seeds many. 
Hab. Lowland forest in the South. Singapore, Garden Jungle. 
Malacca, Selandor (Cantley, Maingay). Pahang, Kwantan, and 
Negri Sembilan, Senawang (Foxworthy). Native names : Papisang 
Bukit; Terbak. . Tjr . 
var elliptica Ridl. M. elliptica Hook. fil. F.B.I. 1. 90; King, 
Journ. As. Soc . Beng. l.c. 123; leaves quite glabrous; nerves not 
so conspicuous and reticulations finer. Flowers less silky, bruit 
2*5 in. long. Hab. Malacca (Maingay). 
(2) A. lucida King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. l.c. 126; Ann. Bot. 
Gard. Calc. l.c. 163, pi. 212. 
A shrub 6 to 8 ft. tall, glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous 
broadly elliptic abruptly acuminate, base cuneate; nerves 6 to 8 
pairs, inarching some way from edge, depressed above, prominent 
beneath, transverse nervules conspicuous beneath; 4*5 to 5*5 m. 
long, 175 to 2*5 in. wide; petioles *3 in. long. Flowers solitary 
or in racemes of 3 ; peduncles very short, puberalous *3 to -4 in. 
long. Sepals triangular-ovate, connate at base, puberulous out¬ 
side. Petals yellowish, inner ones slightly smaller than outer ones. 
Stamens in three rows, shortly apiculate. Ovaries 4 to 5, oblong, 
pubescent; ovules many in 2 rows; stigma sessile, sub-capitate. 
Hab. Dense jungle 300 to 500 ft. altitude. Larut (Kunstler). 
(3) A. sub-dehiscens King, Journ. /Is. Soc. Beng. l.c. 120; 
Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. l.c. 164, pi 213. 
Tree 30 to 40 ft. tall; stem 4 to 5 in. through; branchlets 
