Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 407 



acute, pubescent, the margins scarioua. Ci/mes axillary and extra-axil- 

 lary, sessile, condensed, 3- to 6-flowcred ; bi-acteoles lanceolate, keeled, 

 pubescent. Scpah slightly unequal, ovate, obtuse, ribbeil, tomentose 

 externally, nearly as long as the petals. Fetah oblong, obtuse, pubescent 

 externally, glabrons internally. Stamens from a short glabrous disc ; 

 filaments longer tli;in the anthei", glabrous. Anthers narrowly ovate, 

 tlie base cordate, with a single small terminal white appendage. Ovary 

 sessile, densely villous, style sparsely villous; stigma ti^uncate, cnp- 

 shaped. Capsule when ripe from 1 to 2 in. across, densely covered with 

 brownish, tomentose, bianched, felted fibres ; valves compressed, blunt, 

 "75 in. long; seeds sub-globose, compressed, smooth, the caruncle ovate. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 188; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 116; Oudem. 

 Ann. Mils. Lut,rd. Bat. iii. 79; Miq. 1. c. iv. 216; PI. Jungh. i. 122. 



Singapore, Malacca, Ferak, Penang, at low elevations. Distrib. 

 Sumatra, Bangka. 



Usually a small tree 20 to 30 feet high. Sometimes shrubby. 



13. A. CAPILLATA, King, n. sp. A small shrub, the young branches 

 rufous-tomentose. Leaves membranous, shortly petiolate, lanceolate, 

 acuminate both at apex and base, serrulate ; upper surface glabrous 

 except the pubescent nerves and midrib; lower rufous-pubescent ; the 

 nerves about 11 pairs, bold, as are the transverse veins ; length 6 to 7 in., 

 breadth 1'5 to 1'75 in , petiole '25 in. ; stipules lanceolate, pubescent ex- 

 ternally. Flowers in small, sub-sessile, 3- to 5-flowered, axillary cymes. 

 Sepals ua,rrowly oblong, obtuse, tomentose externally. Petals linear- 

 oblonsj, the apex sub-acute and reflexed, hairy along the midrib externally^ 

 Stamens alternating with the lobes of a deep, 5-lobed, glabrous disc ; fila- 

 ments slender, glabrous, longer than the anthers. Anthers small, ovate, 

 each with an ovate acute small terminal appendage. Ovary sessile, 

 globular, villous ; style long, cylindric, sub-villous ; stigma ti-uncate, cup- 

 shaped. Capsule "5 in. long, rusty-pubescent externally and densely 

 covered with unbranchod, often hooked, soft, pubescent spines about 

 •5 in. long ami not felted. Seeds ovoid, smooth, pale, with dark semi- 

 circumferential band and an oblong cai'unculus. 



Laroot in Pc-rak, King's Collector No. 2462. A small bush 4 to 

 8 feet high. This comes near A. echinocorpa and A. coviosa, but differs 

 notal)ly in its flowers and seeds. 



Section III. Anther cells e.ach with a terminal subulate appendage ; 

 no appcndagn from the connective. 



14. A. COMOSA, King, n. sp. A shrub or small tree, the young 

 branches denselv ferruofinous-tomentose. Leaven membranous,^ sub-sessile, 

 oblong-obln nceolate, caudate-acuminate, serrulate,thebase rounded ; upper 



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