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olivaceous-green when dry, the lower the paler ; main-nerves 7 or 8 

 pairs, curved, ascending, thin but prominent on the lower surface, 

 faint on the upper; length 6 to 11 iu. ; breadth 2*5 to 475 in.; 

 petioles "25 to '4 in. ; stipules shorter than the petioles, broadly ovate, 

 acuminate, keeled. Flowers •25 in. long, in dense shortly peduncled 

 or sessile axillary minutely bracteolate fascicles a little longer than 

 the petioles. Calyx very short, cupular, with 4 broad shallow teeth. 

 Corolla tubular, slightly inflated above the middle; the tube villous 

 inside ; the lobes of the limb shorter than the tube, glabrous, imbricate, 

 oblong, sub-acute. Anthers sessile in the tube 1 in. long oblong. 

 Style cylindric, as long as the corolla, divided into 2 linear hairy arms; 

 ovary with 2 bi-ovulate cells. Fruit globular-ovoid, crowned by the 

 faint scar of the calyx, glabrous, "4 in, long, and about '3 in. in diam. 



Perak: Wray 60,2879,3469; Ridley bbU; King's Collector 2366, 

 2697, 2782, 6277, 6253. 



This closely resembles specimens in Herb. Kew. named Vangueria palemhanica 

 Teysm. & Binn. which is a Biplospora. 



4. DiPLOSPORA VELDTiNA, King & Gamble n. sp. A small tree ; 

 young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, densely covered with 

 short dark-cinereous tomentum like the stipules and petioles. Leaves 

 coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, sometimes slightly obovate, the apex ab- 

 ruptly contracted into a narrow acute point about 1 in. long, the base 

 rounded or slightly narrowed ; upper surface glabrous, shining, the 

 raidi-ib and main-nerves depressed; the lower with bulbous-based hairs 

 in the interspaces between the nerves ; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, 

 slightly curved, ascending, stout, the latter as well as the bold midrib 

 and transverse curved veins very pubescent ; length 8 to 10 in. ; 

 breadth 3 to 45 in. ; petioles about "2 in.; stipules about as long as 

 the petioles, keeled, triangulai', very acuminate. Floivers '25 in. long, 

 sessile, in dense sessile axillary heads not much longer than the 

 petioles. Calyx very short, cupular, obscurely lobed. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped, glabrous except the densely villous throat; the limb Avith 

 4 oblong, bioad, slightly emarginate lobes. Anthers sagittate. Style 

 slender, with 2 short, linear, compressed stigraatic lobes. Fruit un- 

 known. 



Perak: King's Collector S14<2. 



6. DiPLOSPORA KuNSTLERr, King & Gamble n. sp. A small 

 tree ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, deciduously puberul- 

 ous like the stipules, petioles, and lower surfaces of the midrib and 

 main-nerves, otherwise glabrous. Leaves sub-coriaceous, oblanceolate 

 to elliptic or oblong, shortly, abruptly, and bluntly acuminate, the base 

 rounded or slightly cuneate; both surfaces of rather a dark-browu 



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