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COYered with very minute papillae ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, ascending, 

 cnrved ; length 4 to 55 in,, breadth 1'6 to 2'7o in., petiole "6 to "75 in. 

 Cymes paniculate, axillaiy or terminal, bracteolate, 3 or 4 in. in diam., 

 on peduncles 2 or 3 in. long. Flowers '75 in. in diam. ; their pedicels 

 slender, bracteolate, about '5 in. long. Calyx and disc rotund, scarcely 

 lobed. Petals attached to the edge of the disc, rotund with truncate 

 bases, thick, not fimbriate. Disc fleshy, slightly convex, the slender 

 filaments rising far from its edge ; anthers ovate. Ovary expanded 

 below, 3-angled above, glabrous. Fruit unknown. • 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 403. Perak : King's 

 Collector No. 7325. 



Fruit of this is unknown. The species is a very distinct one, at 

 once recognisable by its large flowers and very thick leaves. The 

 petals, according to Kunstler, are pale yellow with a dark patch at 

 the base. 



2. LoPHOPETALUM FiMBRiATUM, Wight III. I. 178. A Small tree: 

 young branches terete, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves thinly coria- 

 ceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly cuspidate, entire, the base 

 rounded or slightly narrowed ; upper surface olivaceous when dry, the 

 lower brown ; main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, spreading, curving, slightly 

 prominent beneath ; length 3 to 4'5 in., breadth 2 to 2*25 in., petiole 

 '65 in. Cymes axillary or ternainal, peduncled, paniculate ; the 

 branches divaricate, many-flowered. Flowers "5 in. in diam., on pedicels 

 •25 in. long. Calyx-lohes very short. Petals rotund-obovate, much 

 larger than the sepals, with transverse fimbriate crests about the middle. 

 Stamenn with long slender filaments, inserted on the middle of the 

 broad 5-lobed disc. Ovary depressed, tapering into the conical style. 

 Fruit 3-angled (ripe unknown.) Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 615; 

 Kurz For. Flor. Burma, I. 255. L. ovatum, Presl. Botan. Bemerk. 32. 

 L. javanum, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1863, pt. i. 545. Euonymus 

 ovata, Wall. Cat. 4300. 



Malacca : Griffith. — Distrib. Burma, Chittagong, Sylhet. 



3. LoPHOPETALUM SDB-OBOVATDM, n. sp., King. A tree ; young bran- 

 ches cinereous when dry. Leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse, slightly cuspi- 

 date, entire, much narrowed to the base, the lower surface pale brown 

 when dry ; main nerves about 6 pairs, spreading, faint ; length 25 to 

 4 in., breadth 1"4 to 2 in., petiole "35 to "45 in. Pamcies axillary, pe* 

 dunculate, 2 to 3'5 in. long, and 1 to 2"5 in. in diam., branching from 

 near the base, the branches divaricating ; the branchlets cyraose, few- 

 flowered. Flowers '3 in. in diam. Calyx spreading; the teeth deltoid, 

 Bub-acute. Petals 5, larger than the calyx, broadly-oblong, sub- 

 obtuse, corrugated on the upper two-thirda of the anterior surface and 



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