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crested. Disc thick, fleshy, entire, pitted. Stamens 5 ; the filaments 

 subulate, their bases iu small inappendiculate pits ; anthers small, ovate. 

 Ovary sunk in the disc, conical ; stigma minute. Fruit unkuown. 

 Penang: on Government Hill, Curtis, No. 1501. 



4. LoPHOPETALUM ScoRTECHiNii, n. sp. King. A tree 60 to 80 feet 

 high : young branches slender, terete, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves 

 coriaceous, broadly elliptic or ovate, sometimes obovate ; the apex obtuse, 

 sub-acute or very shortly cuspidate, the base narrowed ; main nerves 

 about 5 pafrs, spreading or ascending, faint ; length 3'5 to 45 in., 

 breadih 1 75 to 225 in,, petioles "4 to 5 in. Panicles cymose, axillary, 

 shorter than the leaves, the flowers rather crowded towards the end 

 of the short divaricating compressed branches. Flowers '25 in. in diam. 

 Sepals 5, bluntly ovate, spreading. Petals 5, deltoid-rotund, spreading, 

 flat with undulate edges, attached to the edges of the broad thin 5- 

 angied fleshy disc. Anthers 5, sub-sessile, ovate-orbicular ; ovary much 

 depressed, sunk in the disc with only the capitate stigma protruding, 

 4- or 5-celled, Fruit (mature not seen) elongate, glabrous, 3-winged, 

 3-celled, the calyx persistent at its base ; seeds flat, winged at both ends. 

 Euonyunts mammillaris, Scortechini MSS. 



Perak: Scortechini, No. ]94i King's Collector, No. 6676. 



5. LoPHOPETALUM OBLONGUM, n. sp. King. A tree 50 feet high : 

 young branches striate, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves coriaceous,- 

 oblong or elliptic-oblong, acute, entire, the base cuneate ; main nerves 

 7 or 8 pairs, curved, spreading ; length 3'5 to 45 in., breadth 1*5 to 

 rS in., petiole '4 to '5 in. Panicles axillary, rather shorter than the 

 leaves, 2*5 to 3*5 in. in diam., the branches divaricate ; the branchlets 

 cjmose, many-flowered. Flowers 3 in. in diam.; their pedicels "l in 

 length. Sepals 5, deltoid-rotund, thick, spreading. Petals 5, thinner and 

 longer than the sepals, each with an elongate sub-fimbriate crest on the 

 anterior surface. Stamens 5, inserted far from the edge of the thick 

 fleshy slightly 5-angled disc : anthers ovate, filaments short. Ovary 

 sunk in the disc, tapering into the rather thin style, stigma minute. 

 Fruit woody, 3-winged, 5 in. long and nearly 1*5 in. broad. Seeds flat, 

 2*5 in. long (including the wings.) 



Penang : near the waterfall, Curtis, No. 2736. 



6. LOPHOPETALUM PALLIDUM, Laws. in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I. 616. 

 A glabrous tree ; young shoots slender, daik-coloured when dry. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, entire, the base 

 rounded, both surfaces pale when dry ; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, 

 spreading, faint ; length 2-5 to 3 in., breadth I'l to IS in., petiole -3 

 to "4 in. Cymes '5 to '75 in. long, axillary, 6- to 8-flovvered, the peduncle 

 and branches 4-angled. Flowers '25 in. in diam. ; calyx and disc rotund, 

 not lobed. Petals rotund-deltoid, fleshy, attached to the edge of the 



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