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disc, incurved, with a number of fleshy lobular processes on their 

 upper surface. Disc fleshy, almost flat, with many thick fleshy hair- 

 like processes shorter than the filaments. Anthers 5, ovate ; the filaments 

 longer than the anthers, inserted in pits on the disc. Ovary broadly 

 conical. Fruit unknown. 



Malacca : (Kew Distrib.) No. 393. 



Known only by Maingay's scanty specimens, not one of which is 

 in fruit. 



7. LoPHOPETALUM OBLONGiFOLiOM, King n. sp. A tree 80 to 100 feet 

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

 opposite, coriaceous, oblong or elliptic-oblong, shortly and rather bluntly 

 acuminate, entire, the base cuneate, both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves 

 8 or 9 pairs, spreading, slightly curved ; length 45 to 6 in., breadth 

 1*75 to 2*25 iti., petiole '5 to "65 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, 

 about half as long as the leaves, minutely bracteolate, glabrous ; the 

 branches spreading, the ultimate branchlets cymose. Flmoers "25 in. in 

 diam., their pedicels about as long as themselves. Calyx flat, corrugated 

 externally, the edge with 5 broad sub-reniform short teeth closely 

 applied to the corolla. Petals 5, continuous with the margin of the 

 disc, much larger than the calyx-lobes, ovate-elliptic, the edges slightly 

 laciniate or entire, the upper surface with a broad- based pointed fleshy 

 appendage and some hairs. Disc flat, broad, obscurely 6-angled, covered 

 with very short coarse bristle-like hairs. Stamens 5, inserted on the disc 

 filaments short : anthers ovate, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 

 conical, sunk in the disc, 3-celled ; style short, thick ; stigma small. 

 Fruit unknown. Euonymus adenophorus, Scort. MSS. in Herb. Calc. 



Perak : Scortechini, No, 1943. 



8. LoPHOPETALDM CuRTisii, n. sp. King. A medium-sized tree : 

 young branches very slender, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves coriaceous, 

 broadly ovate, cuspidate, entire, the base cuneate ; upper surface wheu 

 dry at first glaucous, afterwards dark-coloured, the lower always pale 

 and very minutely dotted, both glabrous ; main nerves about 6 pairs, 

 curving, faint ; length 2 to 25 in., breadth 1 to 1"5 in. ; petiole '5 or "6 in., 

 slender. Cymes axillary or terminal, about 1 to r35 in. long; the 

 branches divaricating, 10- to 20-flowered. Flowers 'S in. in diam., as in 

 L. pallidum^ but the hair-like processes on the disc confined to the 

 edges of the pits in which the bases of the filaments are inserted. 



Penang on Government Hill ; Curtis, No. ]577. 



A species with flowers like L. pallidum, but with leaves of thicker 

 texture, broader, and with longer petioles. The cymes also are larger 

 and the disc is devoid of processes, except round the edges of the pits 

 from which the filaments spring. 



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