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990 ; Curtis 3483. Singapore : Bidley 6239, 6497. Curtis says it is 

 the " Taban Percha " of the Malays. 



The drawing of the flower in Engl. & Prantl Naturl. Pflanzen-Fam. IV. i. 132, 

 fig. 69 A-C seems a little doubtful. The identification of Wall. Cat. 4161 seems also 

 doubtful, for Payena Maingayi much resembles in leaf Palaquium Gutta var. oblougi- 

 J'olia. 



2. Payena longipedicellata, Brace MS. in Herb. Calc. A tree, 

 reaching 100 to 130 feet in height ; branches slender, silvery-grey, 

 innovations rusty-pubescent. Leaves chartaceo-coriaceous ; oblong or 

 elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate at apex, rounded unequally at the 

 base ; glabrous on both surfaces, margins slightly recurved ; 4 to 5 in. 

 long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed above ; main-nerves 

 about 18 pairs, indistinct, starting at about 85° with the midrib, at first 

 parallel, near the margin joined in an intramarginal looped nerve ; 

 secondary nerves nearly as prominent as main-nerves, often branching 

 backwards, reticulations few, indistinct; petiole -7 to '8 in. long, 

 channelled above and bordered by the margins of the decurrent blade ; 

 stipules small, ovate-acute, rusty-pubescent, very caducous. Floicers 

 fascicled, 1-3 together, in the axils of lower leaves or of the scars of 

 fallen leaves ; pedicels 1 to 1*5 in. long, slender, curved, striate when 

 dry, clavate above, puberulous ; flower-buds conical, large. Calyx-lobes 

 4; 2 outer valvate, ovate-acute, thick, -5 in. long, sparsely rusty- 

 pubescent ; 2 inner lanceolate-acuminate, concave, thickly keeled, -6 in. 

 long, densely tawny-pubescent on the back. Corolla tubular-campanu- 

 late, -8 in. long ; tube -8 in. long, glabrous ; lobes 8, 4 outer enclosing 

 4 inner, ovate-acuminate, glabrous. Stamens 16, inserted in 1 row, 

 below the top of the tube but alternate ones covered by the others ; 

 filaments very short, slender; anthers -15 in. long, ovate, rusty-hirsute, 

 extrorse, the connective produced in a broad mucro divided in 2 diverg- 

 ing lobes at the tip. Ovary oblong, style a little longer than the corolla- 

 lobes. Fruit not known. 



Pebak : Ki7ig's Collector 2940. — Distbib. Borneo, Haviland 3035. 



3. Payena Havilandi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A large tree (?) ; 

 branchlets grey, slender, innovations appressed rusty-pubescent. 

 Leaves chartaceo-coriaceous ; elhptic, abruptly acuminate at apex, at- 

 tenuate usually unequally at base ; glabrous above, glabrous beneath 

 except on the midrib which is appressed-rusty-pubescent, margins 

 recurved ; 2*5 to 3 in. long, 1-25 to 1-75 in. broad ; midrib slender ; 

 main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, not very prominent, rather irregular, 

 starting at about an angle of 60° with the midrib, meeting close to the 

 margin in an intramarginal looped nerve ; secondary nerves and reticu- 

 lations scanty but prominent, raised beneath ; petiole -4 to -5 in. long, 



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