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ovate membranous appendage. Ovary sessile, globose, glabrous. Style 

 cyliiidric; stigma cup-sliaped. Capsule ovoid, pointed, glabrous, not 

 lenticellate ; valves compressed, pointed; seeds sub-globular, carunculate. 

 Perak, Scortechini, King's Collector ; at low elevations. 



A tree 30 to 40 feet high, approaching A, Scortechini in externals, 

 but with different flowers. 



11, A. FLORiBDNDA, King, n. sp. A shrub or tree, the young branches 

 minutely fulvous-tomentose. Leaves membranous, shortly petiolate, 

 oblong-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, sometimes elliptic, acute or acumi- 

 nate, more or less obscurely serrulate ; the base rounded, rarely acuie ; 

 upper surface glabrous except the pubescent midrib and nerves ; under 

 surface minutely and softly tomentose, the midiib and 14 to 16 pairs 

 of rather straight nerves and the transverse secondary nerves promi- 

 ment ; length 4'5 to 7 in., breadth I"5 to 2'5 in., petiole '1 to "2 in.; 

 stipules lanceolate, pubescent on the midrib, '25 in. long. Cymes axil- 

 lary, on peduncles 1 to 15 in. long, much branched, dichotomous, spread- 

 ing, many-flowered ; bracteoles oblong, obtuse, pubescent. Sepals 

 unequal, the outer 3 ovate-rotund, the inner 2 ovate, all obtuse and pubes- 

 cent. Petals ovate-oblong, obtuse, longer than the sepals, the apices 

 usually reflexed. Stamens from a deep, pilose, JO-lobed disc ; filaments 

 expanded and pilose towards the apex, contracted and glabrous below ; 

 antliers eloiigate-ovate, with a single connectival ovate terminal ap- 

 pendage. Ovary sessile, villous, tomentose ; style cylindi'ic, puberulous ; 

 stigma truncate, cup-shaped. Capsule ovoid, obtusely angled, adpressed- 

 pubescent, "35 in. long ; the valves blunt ; seeds sub-globose, angled ; 

 caruncle long, narrow. 



Perak, at low elevations ; very common. 



Distrib. Sumatra ; Lampongs, Forbes, 1719; Padang, Beccari. P. 



S. 683. 



Usually a tree, and sometimes attaining the height (fide Kunstler) 

 of 70 feet. But also, according to the same collector, found as a shrub 

 6 to 8 feet high. This is allied to the Burmese species A. mollis, H. f. 

 and Th., which however, besides having the anthers of a Prosthesin, 

 has much smaller cymes, and broader bracteoles and sepals. 



12. A. ECHiNOCARPA, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II, 360. A small 

 tree, the young branches fulvous or ferruginous-tomentose. Leaves 

 membranous, shortly petiolate, ohovate or ovate-elliptic, abruptly and 

 shortly acuminate, boldly and unequally serrate, the base rounded or 

 narrowed ; upper surface glabrous except the pubescent midrib and 

 nerves ; the lower softly pubescent, the midrib, 11 to 15 pairs of nerves 

 and transverse secondary nerves pale and prominent ; length 6*5 to 9 in., 

 breadth 2'25 to 3*25 in., petiole '1 to '2 in. ; stipules '25 in. long, ovate 



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