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margins of the blade, swollen below. Flowers in fascicles of up to 10 

 to 12, on tubercles in the axils of the leaves or above the scars of fallen 

 leaves on the previous year's wood ; pedicels -5 to -6 in. long, slender, 

 flattened below the flowers, densely pubescent at first, afterwards nearly 

 glabrous, recurved in fruit ; buds small, conical. Calyx-lobes 4, -2 in. long ; 

 2 upper ovate-acute, densely pubescent, valvate ; 2 lower imbricate, also 

 densely pubescent, ciliate on the margins, somewhat keeled, ovate- 

 acute. Corolla funnel-shaped ; lobes 8, throat villous. Stamens about 

 16 ; filaments short glabrous ; anthers sagittate. Ovary globose, villous^ 

 8-celled, style "3 to -4 in. long, stigma minutely lobed. Fruit an ovoid 

 densely pubescent berry about -7 to "9 in. in diam., crowned by the 

 persistent style ; seeds 1-2. Seed ovoid-oblong, -65 in. by -35 in., acute 

 at base ; testa shining, chestnut-brown, thin, crustaceous ; hilum large, 

 oblong ; albumen none ; cotyledons oblong, -45 in. long, '25 in. broad, 

 radicle very small. 



Peeak : King's Collector 512, 3846 ; Curtis 3695, on the Larut hill 

 up to 2,500 feet. 



10. Bassia abgentea, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 545 (1882) 

 {not of de Vriese). A large tree ; branchlets rather thick, greyish-brown. 

 Leaves coriaceo-chartaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, abruptly acumi- 

 nate at apex, acute and often unequal at base ; glabrous above, shining 

 grey-silky beneath when young, nearly glabrous when old ; 4 to 7 in. 

 long, 2-5 to 3 in. broad; midrib prominent, thick; main-nerves 13 to 

 15 pairs, about -4 in. apart, starting at about 60° with the midrib, at 

 first straight then curving upwards ; reticulations many, very oblique ; 

 petiole 1 in. long, upper part bordered by the decurrent margin of the 

 blade, swollen below and rugose. Flo2uers fascicled in clusters of 6 to 

 10 in the axils of the leaves, or above the Scars of fallen leaves ; pedicels 

 slender, about '5 in. long, appressed-pubescent ; buds conical. Calyx- 

 lobes 4, outer and inner pairs both valvate ; lobes ovate, "2 to '25 in. long^ 

 acute, pubescent. Corolla tubular-campanulate, tube "1 in. long ; lobes 

 8 to 9, '15 in, long, linear-oblong. Stamens usually 24, in 3 rows, inserted 

 on the top of the tube on a ring of rusty hairs ; filaments very small or 

 none ; anthers ovate, densely hirsute, black-apiculate. Ovary rounded, 

 depressed above, villous ; style "2 to -3 in. long, villous half-way up^ 

 subulate ; stigma capitate ; cells 8 to 10. Fruit not seen. 



Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 991, 1524 ; Derry 941. 

 Bassia argentea, de Vriese, seems to be a Sidcroxylon, cf. Burck & Koord. & Val. 



11. Bassia Bkaceana, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree with spreading 

 branches, reaching 50 to 70 feet in height and 10 to 20 in. in diam. • 

 branchlets pale brown. Leaves chartaceous ; bright green, glossy » 



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