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pedunculate, puberulous ; the branches divergent, tlie flowers solitary 

 or in clusters of 2 to 4 at rather distiant intervals. Flowers less than 

 -1 in. in diam., on pedicels shorter than tliemselves. Oalijx cupular, 

 with 5 spreading concave broadly-ovate acute segments, puberulous 

 outside, glabrous inside. Petals 5, broadly elliptic, very obtuse, twice 

 as long as the calyx, minutely pubescent on the inner surface, glabrescent 

 on the outer. Stamens 5, sbox'ter than the petals, the filaments not 

 swollen at the base. Disc glabrous. Ovary oouical, glabraus : stigma 

 minute. Drupe unknown. 



Kedah : Curtis, No. 2620, 



A species of which I have seen only Mr. Curtis's specimen from 

 Kedah. It is readily distinguished from the preceding two by the tufts 

 of white hair in the axils of the main nerves on the under surface of the 

 leaflets. Tlie stigma is very minute and it is not easy to make out the 

 three lobes which characterise, the genus. The flowers have, however, 

 the staminodes and disc of the genus. 



11. Pentaspadon, Hook. f. 



Trees. Leaves unequally pinnate ; leaflets opposite, sub-sessile, entire. 

 Panicles axillai'y, peduncled, much-branched, branchlets very slender. 

 Flowers pedicelled, minute, liermaphi-odite. Calyx-lobes 6, imbricate. 

 Petals 5, oblong-obovate, strongly imbricate. Stamens 5, minute, inserted 

 jat the base of the disc, alternate with 5 short subulate staminodes which 

 lire free or adnate to the side of the disc ; filaments short, broadly subu- 

 late ; a?if^ers didymous. Disc cupular, obscurely 10-lobed. Ovary seSbied 

 pn the disc, very minute, 1-celled, contracted into a stout short style ; 

 stigma globose or obliquely oblong, much bent to one side ; ovule 1, 

 pendulous fi^om the upper part of the cavity, 



1. Pentaspadon OFPicfNALis, Holmes MSS. in Herb. Soc. Pharm. 

 Lond. A tree 60 to 100 feet high : young branches puberulous and 

 with prominent small brown warts. Leaves 4 to 7 in. long, the rachises 

 puberulous or glabrescent : leaflets 7 to 9, thinly coriaceous, oblong- or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, entii-e, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base 

 narrowed, both surfaces glabrous : the lower with tufts of short hair in 

 some of the nerve axils, curving upwards ; main nerves 6 to 9 pairs, 

 interarching far fiom the majgin, rather prominent on the lower sur- 

 face when dry ; length 1'75 to 2*75 in., breadth "8 to 1'25 in. ; petiolules 

 •15 in., those of the upper leaflets twice as long. Panicles pedunculate, 

 as long as or exceeding the leaves, much branched towards the apex ; 

 the bi'anclilets slender, minutely ciuereous-toinentose. Flotoers numer- 

 ous, about Oi> in. iu diam., their pedicels shorter tlinu themselves. Galyx- 

 Zo6e« louuded. Pc/W* obovate-rotuud, glabrous. Urupe narrowly <^Jlip- 



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