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Bhorfc rusty-deeidnous hairs, the leaf-cicatrices bold. Leaves thickly 

 membranous, narrowly elliptic-obovate, shortly acuminate, the base 

 cuneate : upper surface dark-brown when dry, glabrous ; the lower 

 paler, minutely rusty-pubescent especially on the nerves and stout 

 midrib ; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, curved upwards, bold on the lower 

 surface, slightly depressed on the upper ; length 3*5 to 5 in. ; breadth 

 1"5 to 2*25 in. : petioles '1 to '15 in.; stipules about '35 in. long, tri- 

 angular with long apices, the midrib rusty-pubescent. Male cymes on 

 slender pubescent peduncles 1 to 2 in. long, with 2 diverging 1- to 2- 

 flowered branches and a sessile flower at the fork. Floivers 3*5 in. long, 

 those on the branches on pedicels '3 in. long. Calyx cupular, snbentire, 

 less than "l in. long. Corolla thickly coriaceous, outside with dense 

 yellowish-browa silky tomentum, inside nearly glabrous, the tube 

 cylindric, the mouth with 4 broad blunt lobes one-third of the length of 

 the tube. Female jioioers a,ud fruit unknown. 

 Perak : King's Collector 10609. 

 Tliis has been collected only once and its female flowers and frnit are unknown. 

 It appears to be near T. Janibosella but differs in its hairy leaves and lax, long- 

 peduucled male cymes. 



5. TiMONiua MALACCENSis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small tree? 

 Young branches slender, obtusely 4-angled, clothed in dense pale minute 

 tomentum. Leaves membranous, broadly oblanceolate or elliptic, 

 bluntly and shortly acuminate, narrowed to the base ; upper surface 

 glabrous, the midrib alone minutely rufous, puberulous when young 

 pale-brown when dry ; the lower paler, reticulate, with sparse slender 

 pale hairs, the midrib and main-nerves cinereous-tomentose ; main- 

 nerves 5 or 6 pairs, little curved, ascending ; length 3*5 to 4*5 in., 

 breadth 1"6 to 1"75 in. ; petioles '15 to "2 in. ; stipules shortly cupular 

 the mouth with several unequal filiform processes, two being very long. 

 Cymes 2 or 3 in the uppermost leaf -axils, about 6-flowered, one quarter 

 of the length of the leaves, tomentose ; their peduncles *35 to '6 in. long. 

 Floivers densely pubescent outside, their pedicels '05 in. long. Calyx 

 tomentose, slightly more than "1 in. long, campanulate : the mouth with 

 4 broad, triangulai", spi-eading lobes. Corolla nearly twice as long as the 

 calyx, salver- shaped, pubescent outside, glabrous inside except the villous 

 throat ; limb with 4 ovate-lanceolate sub-acute lobes. Anthers 4, sub- 

 sessile in the throat, short, elliptic. Style stout, elongate, sjDarsely 

 hairy below, divided into several broad flat truncate stigmatic lobes. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Malacca: (on Mount Ophir) Ridley 3217. 



This differs notably from T. Rumphii in its shorter flowers and its stipules. 

 The Ifaves also differ. It has been only once collected. 

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