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about its midHle, and 4 broad convenient triangular teetb. Petals 6 or 

 more, tbe outer tbree sericeous outside and glabrous inside, tbe inner 

 quite glabrous ; all broadly elliptic, free h'om the staminal-tabe. Stami- 

 nal-tuhe shorter tban the petals, cylindric, glabrescent, the mouth with 

 shallow broad erose teeth. Stamens 12, attached at the very base of 

 the tube ; anthers linear-elongate. Ovary conic, apparently 5-celled ; 

 style cylindric, pubescent ; stigma discoid, concave. 



Perak ; Scortechini No. 7000, Curtis No. 2693. 



In its leaves, and also to some extent in its inflorescence, this agrees 

 with the type specimen of G. spectabile, Miq., collected by Korthals in 

 Borneo, and now in the Hei'bai'ium at Leiden. That specimen is in bud 

 only, and neither Scortecliini's nor Curtis's specimens have fully 

 expanded flowei^s. The buds both of this and of C. spectabile are of 

 the same clavate shape. Miquel does not describe the flowers of G. spect- 

 abile, and the buds in Korthal's type specimen are so young and 

 so few, that I did not dare to dissect one of them. The buds on 

 Scortechini's scanty specimens of this are also too young for accu- 

 rate examination. But an examination of one of Mr. Curtis's dis- 

 closes the structure above described. The flowers are remarkable 

 because of the waved thickened band which runs round the exterior of 

 the calyx just below the teeth. The ovary, moreover, of this appears 

 to have 5 cells, whereas the species of the genus GliisocJietcn have only 

 2 or 4. This character together with the lengthening of the base of 

 the flower into a pseudo-stalk and the annular thickening of the base of 

 the calyx, approximate this species to the genus Megaphyllea. In the 

 m.eantime I put it into Ghisocheton. Good flowering specimens of this 

 singular plant are much to be desired. 



10. Chisocheton macrophtllus, King, n. sp. A tree 60 feet high. 

 Leaves 5 or 6 feet long, the petiole and rachis obliquely 4-angled, sub- 

 glabrous ; leaflets membranous, opposite, oblong, the apex with a short 

 blunt acumen ; the base broad, rounded, unequal-sided : upper surface 

 quite glabrous, the lower paler, minutely pubescent on the midrib and 

 nerves when young ; main nerves 18 to 20 pairs, spreading, rather pro- 

 minent beneath when dry ; length 5 to 13 in., breadth 35 to 4 in., petio- 

 lules '3 in. Panicles 2 to 3 feet long, narrow, puberulous ; the branches 

 rather distant, from 1 to 35 in. long, the ultimate branchlets cymulose, 

 many-flowered. Flowers "5 or "6 in. long, narrow, on pubescent pedi- 

 cels less than "1 in. long. Calyx cupular, pubescent, about '05 deep, 

 its mouth obscurely 4-toothed or entire. Petals 4, many times longer 

 than the calyx, linear with spathulate concave apices, puberulous on 

 the outer, glabrous on the inner surface. Staminal-tube slightly shor- 

 ter than the petals, adherent to them for half its length, outside glabres- 



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