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petals elliptic, staminal tube ovoid ; leaflets 15 to 25, oblong, opposite, 

 sub-sessile, the bases rounded, 3 to 6 in. long, the terminal one not 

 longer than the pairs but with a nai'row base : undei'-surfaces from pale 

 to cinuamoneous, not shining. A. eximia, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 

 606. A. ancolana Miq. 1. c. 506. 



Perak: King's Collector, N'os. 5767 and 10007. Distrib. Sumatra. 



Var. GurHsii, King. Flmcers ovoid, '15 in, long: petals elliptic; 

 staminal tube globular, the apical aperture very small and almost entire. 

 Leaflets 15 to 19, oblong, shortly acuminate and with rounded bases, 

 the terminal one not larger than the others. Fruit narrowly jjyriform, 

 densely lepidote. 



Penang; Curtis, No. 2287. Pei-ak : King's Collector, No. 8239. 



16. Aglaia lanuginosa. King, n. sp. A tree 50 to 70 feet high ; 

 youug branches very stoat (1 in. in diam.), rugulose and rusty-tomeu- 

 tose between the large triangular leaf-cicatrices. Leaves 2 to 4 feet 

 long, unequally pinnate everywhere, except on the upper surfaces of 

 the leaflets, densely covered with soft rusty stellate tomentum ; leaflets 

 9 to 13, the pairs opposite, thinly coriaceous, oblong, cuspidate, the base 

 rounded and often minutely cordate ; upper surface glabi'ous ; main 

 nerves 28 to 36 pairs, sub-horizontal, slightly prominent on tlie lower- 

 faintly depressed on tiie upper surface; length 5 to 15 in,, breadth 2 to 

 3'5 in., petiolules '25 to '4 in. Panicles axillaiy, from 9 (o 12 in, long, 

 stout ; branches few, ascending and bearing short lateral spikes. Floio- 

 ers sessile, densely crowded, depressed-globular, about '1 in. in diam. 

 Calyx completely enveloping the petals, with 5 deep narrow lobes covered 

 outside with soft stellate wool, inside glabrous. Petals 5, elliptic, blunt 

 glabrous, concave, slightly shorter than the calyx. Staminal tube shorter 

 than the petals, its mouth wide and deeply 5-lobed, glabrous ; anthers 

 opposite its lobes, large, included. Ovary small ; stigma cylindric. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Perak: Scortechini, No. 168:^; King's Collector, Nos, 7381, 7714. 

 This species resembles the Bornean A. grandis, Miq. in its leaves 

 but has different flowers. Fruit of both species is unknown, 



17. Aglaia Curtisii, King, n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high ; 

 young bi'anches stout, rusty puberulous. Leaves 18 to 30 in. lono- mi. 

 equally pinnate ; leaflets coriaceous, 11 to 15, sub-opposite, oblong to ellip- 

 tic, sliortly acuminate ; the bases of the lower rounded, of the upper cune- 

 ate ; upper surface glaberulous and when dry minutely pustulate, the 

 midrib puberulous ; under sui-face covered with dense minute rusty 

 tomentum with numerous stellate hairs on the surface; main nerves 

 16 to 24, spreading, prominent beneath ; length 6 to 9 in,, breadth 2 to 

 4 in., petiolules "2 to "35 in. Panicles slightly supra-axillary, solitai-y, 6 



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