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POLYALTHIA SUBEROSA .pan.) A small tree or shrub, bark corky, adult branches’glabrous, young ones slightly pubes¬ 
cent, leaves oblong obtuse at both ends, or rarely a little narrowed at the base and acute at the apex, sometimes oblique at the 
base, submembranaceous, margin undulate, glabrous above, beneath more or less pubescent, at length glabrous, 2\-5 inches long l-l| 
inches broad, petioles 1-2 lines long, peduncles axillary very short, pedicels solitary or two together, |-1 inch long slender, subclavate 
at the apex, pubescent, furnished with a linear subulate bracteole below the middle, sepals pubescent, small, sub-persistont in 
fruit, petals oval obtuse pubescent, interior £ inch long nearly twice as long as the exterior ones, ovaries fusco strigose, torus in fruit 
small globose tomentose, carpels numerous mucronulate, size of a pea, subsericeous, at length glabrous. Hook and Thom. FI. Ind. 
p. 140 ; W. A. prod. p. 10; Uvaria auberosa, Roxb. FI. Ind. il 667. 
Cumbum valley Madura district (specimen figured), Carnatic, Orissa, Bahar, Bengal, Assam, Tenasserim, Ceylou. 
PLATE No. LVI. 
POLYALTHIA ACUMINATA. (Thw) A tree, branchlets and petioles pilose, leaves oblong or obovato-oblong, rostrato, 
acuminate, narrowed at the base snbglabrous, channelled at the costa above, pilose on the costa and very prominent veins beneath 
6-12 inches long 2J-4 inches broad (petioles 2-4 lines long), flowers canline, large yellowish subsolitary or few, pedicels l-24 inches long 
fulvo-tomentose furnished with a small bract below the middle, sepals ovate 4 lines long fulvo-tomentose on the outside, pet’als 13 lines 
long, interior a little broader than the exterior, fulvo-tomentose, ovato-Janceolate acumiuate ; torus convex tomentose, style as long 
as the pilose ovary, stigma pilose, carpels ovoid tomentose, size of a nut. Thw . En. p. 399. 
Ceylon, near Batnapoora. 
PLATE No. LYII. 
( !?R IO y H t LA !i XI o S 1 1 TH 7 A1T j ESI1 ' (H ‘ f ’ 6t T ) A SmaU tre6) branclies glabrous, leaves oblong shortly and obtusely 
acuminate, 3* 6 inches long 1 Hi broad, r.gidcoriaceous,glabrous oa both sides, shining above, pale beneath, petioles 4 to 4 an inch long 
peduncles axillary §rd to 1 inch long, subclavate at the apex, furnished with minute scale like bracts at the base, flower about 1 iuch 
long, exterior petals ovato-Ianceolate glabrous, thickly coriaceous with a short broad ciaw at the base, inner petals closely conniveut 
into a imtriform ovate cup, ovaries linear oblong strigose, style subulate longer than the ovary, ovules 2, torus plane carpels numerous 
or fewer by abortion, very shortly pedicelled a little more than * an inch long, oval, obtuse, seed 1. Hook, and T. FI. Ind. p. 106. 
In moist forests on the South Tiimevelly and Travancore mountains at an elevation of 3 to 4,000 feet: it flowers in July — 
also found m Ceylon. The specimen figured is from the Paupanassum hills in Tinnevelly. ’ 
PLATE No. LViri. 
^ .^OTHALAMUS THOMSON!. (Thw.) An erect shrub, 1^-3 feet, leave, ebovate, orobovato laneeolate, with a long ab¬ 
rupt acnmination, 5-12 .nehe, long, 1 i-3 mches broad, (petmlea about) inoh long), peduncles oanline solitary or twin, 4 inch long ascending 
end enrv. dd.wn n .ar the.pei, flower, yellow, sepal, persistent lanceolate i inch long, eaterior petals lanoeelate much narrowed toward, 
a ' h "f. 0 ”/: TTJr*”* M ° * mittif ° rm ° ra,a0 " te 6 ta* ovaries pilose, style 
JX" l,I"on g fLT 8 p " ‘ Seg “ en18 ' ° ,Ule3 2 ‘ -« ovai apicnlate f inch long, 
Ceylon (forests between Galle and Rutnapoora). 
PLATE No. LIX. 
A " er “‘ 8hrUb> narrow oblongo-lanceolate, acute a 
principal veins connected bv loons ? & ? ** k ° US !" 2 (P et,oles £ inch ) thickly coriaceous, Bhining above, pale beneath 
than a’T?*^ 'V ° ther SP “ ieS) ' PedUnC, “ m 
wThXnv “ Tn^ fl :"' erS 8ree “ i8h 4 iocheslong, sepals pereietent cordate at the hie, 
-tries adpmwedfcZ. <11* .^‘T” ‘ r, T™ peltla glabrous scarcely ungniculate at the base 
2 seeded. ** £ 7 ' l0n8 ' hl “»* ** *****J—* 
Ce 5 rloD > 2,000 to 4,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. LX. 
