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high. Leaves 12 to 18 in. long, their petioles and rachises rusty- 

 tomentose ; leaflets 3 to 5 pairs, oblong-oblanceolate or lanceolate, 

 cuspidate, slightly narrowed to the cuneate base. Upper surface 

 glabrous except the tomentose midrib ; under surface rusty-tonien- 

 tose, the 16 to 18 pairs of spreading curving main nerves 

 prominent. Spihes supra- axillary, solitary, on very long peduncles, 

 rusty-tomentose ; peduncles 6 to 12 in., the flowering pai-t about 2 in. 

 Flowers "5 to "6 in. long, crowded, subsessile, minutely bracteolate. 

 Calyx cylindric, about •! in. long, densely tomentose, the mouth with 

 4 minute teeth. Petals 4, oblong, concave at the apex, yellowish, seri- 

 ceous outside, glabrous inside. Staminal tube shorter than the petals 

 and coherent with them below, glabrous, with a few scattered coarse 

 hairs near the middle outside, the mouth with 4 broad emarginate 

 or erose teeth ; anthers 4, elliptic, included. Ovary ovoid, sericeous ; 

 style cylindric with a few scattered hairs, stigma cylindric with a 

 thin annulus at its base. Fruit sub-globular, tomentose, with a long 

 thick apical beak, 75 in. in diara., the beak "o in. long. 



Perak: King's Collector, Nos. 4502, 7783, Scortechini. 

 4. Chisocheton pendulifloros. Planch, ex Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 T, 550. A shrub or small tree ; young branches tawny-tomentose. Leaves 

 15 to 24 in. long, their rachises tawny-tomentose : leaflets 5 pairs, oppo- 

 site, with occasionally a terminal odd one, elliptic to ovate, the upper 

 occasionally sub-obovate, all shortly acuminate ; rounded at the base, 

 or narrowed from above the middle to the sub-acute minutely cordate 

 sub-oblique base ; main nerves 15 to 18 pairs, spreading, rather pro- 

 minent beneath ; upper surface glabrescent, the midrib and nerves 

 pubescent ; the lower reticulate, sparsely pubescent, the midrib tomen- 

 tose : length 3 to 9 in., breadth 15 to 3 in., petiolules less than '1 in., 

 tomentose. Panicles about as long as the leaves, supra-axillary, on 

 long drooping tomentose slender peduncles ; the lateral branches few, 

 short, densely flowered. Flowers '75 to nearly 1 in. long, on very' short 

 pedicels, dull red, 4- or 5- merous, clavate in bud, the lower part very 

 slender especially in the barren flowers. Calyx short, tabular, the 

 mouth entire or 4- or 5- toothed, coarsely pubescent. Petals 5, linear- 

 spathulate, concave and thickened towards the apex, longer than, and 

 in their lower part coherent with, the staminal tube, pubescent in the 

 middle and glabrous on the edges outside. Staminal tube narrow, with 

 a few coarse adpressed hairs near the apex outside, the mouth rather 

 deeply 3- to 6- toothed, the teeth emarginate or erose. Anthers 3 to 5, 

 narrow, elongate, sessile, included or slightly exserted. Ovary sub- 

 ovoid, short, sub-glabrous. Style long, slender, adpressed- pubescent 

 below, glabrous above. Stigma discoid, thick, surrounded at the base 

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