Columbia.] xxv. tiliace.^. 307 



the other ; nerves 2 on one side, i on the other ; nervules prominent 

 beneath, edge entire spinulose, above, stellate-hairy, beneath 

 velvety, "6 in. long, 3 in. wide ; petioles -5 in. long. Panicle 

 terminal spreading, 7 in. long, velvety-grey; cymes compact. 

 Bracts ovate boat-shaped, blunt. Flowers "5 in. long, white. 

 Sepals linear-oblong, blunt, hairy. Petals lanceolate oblong, 

 sub-acute, as long. Torus low, silky. Style hairy. Hab. Lime- 

 stone rocks. Perak at Lenggong (Ridley). 



(3) C. diptera Ridl. Joiirn. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 59, p. 78. 

 Deciduous tree about 40 ft. tall. Young parts pubescent. 



Leaves lanceolate long acuminate, base nearly equilateral rounded, 

 grey pubescent beneath when young, adult more coriaceous, 

 nearly glabrous; nerves 5 pairs elevate beneath; nervules hori- 

 zontal, scabrid, midrib pubescent, 4 in. long, i in. wide ; petioles 

 •25 in. long, slender. Inflorescence secund. Flowers unknown. 

 Fruit 2-winged, top retuse, base broad, glabrous, striate, wings 

 rounded '5 in. long, 75 in. wide. Ovary 2-celled, 2-seeded. Hab. 

 Open country. Perils at Besih Hangat (Ridley). 



(4) C. Curtisii Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 59, p. 80. 

 Tree. Leaves lanceolate, base cuneate, slightly unequal, edges 



entire sparsely pubescent above, beneath more densely grey pubes- 

 cent ; nerves 4 pairs, 3 in. long, i in. across ; petioles '25 in. long. 

 Inflorescence terminal, pubescent. Fruit 3-winged, wings oblong, 

 rounded, striate pubescent, '75 in. across, apex retuse, base cuneate. 

 Hab. Lankawi, small islands (Curtis). 



Allied to C. mergueusis Planch., but with smaller leaves. I have seen 

 no liowers. 



9. TRICHOSPERMUM, Bl. 



Trees with stellate puberulous leaves. Flowers in axillary and 

 umbellate cymes or panicles. Sepals 5, valvate. Petals 5, with 

 basal scale. Stamens numerous, free, on an annular sub-crenate 

 villous-edged disc ; anthers short, broad versatile with sub-orbicular 

 connective. Ovary 2-celled; ovules numerous, placentas axile; 

 style short. Stigma expanded, papillose. Capsule orbicular- 

 reniform, compressed, loculicidally 2-valved. Seeds many, len- 

 ticular with marginally vihous aril; albumen fleshy. Species 3, 

 Malayan and Polynesian. 



Capsule transversely elliptic not keeled . . . (i) T. Kurzii 



Capsule inversely cymbiform keeled . . . (-2) T. cymbiforme 



(i) T. Kurzii King, I.e. 119. Bixagrewia nicobarica Kurz, 

 Journ. Bot. 1875, p. 325, t. 169. 



Tree 40 to 100 ft. tall, 15 to 20 in. through. Leaves mem- 

 branous, ovate-elliptic, acuminate, serrate-crenate, base rounded, 

 sub-truncate, sub-cordate; nerves 5 pairs, 4 to 6 in. long, 2 to 

 3 in. wide ; petioles "5 in. long. Panicles long-peduncled. Flowers 

 •4 in. long, hght brown outside, green within. Sepals oblong, acute, 



