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oblong, thin, '2 in. long, opening along their edge ; connective black, 

 prominent, ending in a long sharp awn, the anthers usually twisted 

 half round. Ovary silky-pubescent, flat at top, style glabrous about 

 equal to corolla, cells 10 to 12. Fruit not known. 

 Perak : at Goping, Scortechini 1984. 



Said by Scortechini to give a guttaperclia. 



2. Bassia Kingiana, Brace MS. in Herb. Calc. A tree, reaching 

 50 to 60 feet in height, and 10 to 15 in. in diam. ; branchlets thick. 

 Leaves coriaceous, dark green ; obovate-oblong, rounded and then 

 shortly and abruptly acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous on 

 both surfaces, margins slightly reflexed ; 10 to 14 in. long, 3-5 to 4*5 in. 

 broad ; midrib very strong, prominent ; main-nerves about 20 pairs, 

 conspicuous, "5 to •? in. apart, starting nearly at right angles to the 

 midrib and curving upwards to meet in a conspicuous intramarginal 

 looped nerve ; secondary nerves few but prominent ; reticulations dis- 

 tant, not numerous ; petiole 2 in. long, grooved above, swollen at base, 

 and then conspicuously rugose when dry ; stipules subulate-acuminate 

 from a broad base, very quickly caducous. Floiuers fascicled, about 

 3 to 5 together, on small tubercles above the scars of fallen leaves on 

 the previous year's wood ; pedicels recurved, thick, -4 in. long, enlarged 

 above, covered as also the calyx with appressed tawny pubescence ; 

 buds globose, about -4 in. long. Calyx-lobes 4, -4 in. in diam.; outer 



2 imbricate, rounded emarginate, thick; inner 2 also imbricate, concave, 

 ciliate on the margins. Gorolla-tuhe funnel-shaped, -15 in. long, rusty- 

 hirsute without, pubescent within ; lobes 12 to 16, white, much imbri- 

 cate or in 2 rows, spathulate, ciliate on the margins, hirsute, "25 in. 

 long. Stamens many, 32 to 36, in 2 rows on the top of the corolla- 

 tube ; filaments "1 in. long, rather stout, densely hirsute ; anthers linear- 

 oblong, -125 in. long ; connective produced into a broad appendage, 

 penicillate at tip, in bud merely aristate. Ovary rounded, villous ; style 

 thick, curved, pubescent, "3 in. long, with minute stigmatic lobes ; cells 

 about 8. Fruit a globose, thickly tawny-pubescent, berry, -75 in. in 

 diam., surmounted by the long subulate persistent style, seeds 1 to 2. 

 Seed not seen. 



Perak: King's Collector 3314, 3678, 7389 ; in open jungle at 300 to 

 500 feet. Singapore : Bidley 6238, 6294. 



3. Bassia Kunstleri, Brace MS. in Herb. Calc. A tree with 

 spreading branches, reaching a height of 30 to 40 feet and 10 to 

 15 in. in diam. ; branchlets slender, grey, innovations rusty-pubescent. 

 Leaves chartaceous ; obovate-oblong or oblong, abruptly acuminate at 

 apex, acuminate at base, glabrous on both surfaces ; 4 to 6 in. long, 



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