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Perak; King's Collector, Nos. 3301, 6850; Penaag, Curtis, No. 

 1419 ; Malacca, Maingay, No. 176. 



This is allied to K. nervosa, T. Anders. ; but it is readily distinguislied 

 from that by its smooth branclilets, by tlie leaves much and gradually 

 narrowed to both base and apex, and by the oblong-acuminate petals. 

 A. shrubby form of this occurs in Penang (Curtis, Nos. 805, 1418), and in 

 Perak (King's Collector, No. 1345) in which all the parts are smaller 

 and the leaves are less acuminate at the apex, and rounded instead of 

 much attenuated at the base. 



5. Kavea NERVOSA, T. Anders, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i, 277. A 

 glabrous tree ; the branchlets minutely tubercled, 4-angled. Leaves sub- 

 sessile, membranous, elliptic-oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the 

 base rounded or emarginate ; both surfaces (when dry ) dull coppery brown, 

 the lower paler; nerves 16 to '20, unequal, rather prominent beneath ; 

 length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1"25 in. to 2 in. ; petiole "IS in. long, rugose 

 as is the base of the midrib. Flowers axillary, usually solitary (some- 

 times 2 or 3 from an axil), or terminal, 1'75 in. in diam. ; pedicels '75 in. 

 or less, tubercled, each with several linear lanceolate bracts at its base. 

 Sepals uneqaa,l, the outer very coriaceous, sub-orbicular ; the inner nearly 

 twice as large but thinner. Pe^aZs obovate ; filaments about as long as 

 the slender pistil. Ripe fruit sub-globular, beaked, leathery, "75 in. in 

 diam. or more, the calyx marcescent. Kurz Flora Burm. i, 96 ; Mestia 

 nervosa, PI. and Triana Mem. Guttif. 279. 



Malacca, Perak. Distrib. Burmah. 



6. Katea caudata, King, n. sp. A slender glabrous tree, 20 to 30 

 feet high, with drooping habit ; the branchlets slender, pale brown, striate. 

 Leaves membranous, obovate-elliptic, caudate-acuminate, mucronulate, 

 edges undulate, slightly narrowed to the rounded base; both surfaces dull, 

 the lower pale; nerves 12 to 14 pairs, promiiient, sub-horizontal; length 

 3 to 3*5 in. of which the acumen forms "7 in.; breadth 1 tol'15 in., petiole 

 '15 in. Flowers unknown. Fruit solitary, terminal, shortly pedicellate, 

 narrowly ovoid-cyliiidiic, tapering very much to the apex and often 

 curved, less narrowed to the base, 2 to 2'5 in. long, and 1 to 1*25 in, 

 in diam. at the middle; bracts at base of pedicel subulate, 1-nerved. 

 Sepals •pevsistent, the outer pair orbicular, the inner obloug; pedicel 

 about "2 in. long, rather shorter than the subulate bracts. 



Perak ; King's Collector, No. 7937. 



Only once collected and only in fruit. Easily recognisable by its 

 caudate-acuminate leaves and fruit. 



7. Kayea blegans, King, n. sp. A glabrous tree 40 to 60 feet high, 

 with slender drooping branches ; branchlets veiy thin, pale grey. Leaves 

 thinly but rigidly coriaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, the base acute, the 



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