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filaments short ; cells narrow, elongate, connective with a glabrous 

 apiculus. Ocary depressed-hemisijlieric, adpressed-sericeous, S-ridgnd, 

 6-ceIled ; style cyliridric, glabrous except at the base ; stigma minute. 

 Fruit '5 in. in diam., baccate, adpressed-sericeous, 4-celled. Seeds 

 numerous, reniform, brown, small. Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. I, 283 ; Kurz 

 Fl. Burm. i, 100. Ternstrcemia ? sericea, Wall. Cat. 1454. SrJiima 

 Wallichii, Choisy Mem. Ternst, 91 (not of Choisy in Zoll. Cat.) 



Perak ; King's Collector, Wi-ay, at elevations from 3000 to 4000 

 feet. Distrib. Ta%'oy. 



6. Adinandra HuLtETTir, King, n. sp. A tree; young branches 

 densely and minutely rusty-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, 

 shortly acuminate, the base acute ; edges glandular, denticulate, slightly 

 recurved when dry ; upper surface smooth, shining ; lower brown, dense- 

 ly and minutely tomeutose, the midrib prominent; the nerves spreading, 

 obscure, about 10 pairs ; length 3'5 to 5*5 in., breadth 1'5 to 2*5 in., 

 petiole "25 in. Flowers "75 in. in diam. ; peduncles *4 to '5 in., tomeu- 

 tose ; bracteoles broadly ovate, acute, opposite, close to the calyx. 

 Sepals spreading, fleshy, all glabrous internally ; the outer 2 rotund, 

 tomentose extei-nally, larger than the others ; the inner 3 ovate-rotund, 

 tomentose externally, the edges glabrous. Petals longer than the 

 sepals, membranous, oblong, blunt, glabrous, the tips reflexed. Stamens 

 from 40 to 50, epipetalous ; anthers densely pubescent, the connec- 

 tive with a long blunt glabrous apiculus; filaments short, geniculate. 

 Ovary conic-hemispheric, adpressed-sericeous ; style glabrous ; stigma 

 small, conic. Fruit unknown. 



Singapore ; Muvton, No. 144 ; Hullett, No. 103. Penang ; Curtis, 

 No. 275, in part. 



A very distinct species of which fruit is as yet unknown. 

 7. Adinandra macrantha, Teysra. and Binn. Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 

 XXV, 421. A tree 20 to 50 feet high; young branches with pale glabrous 

 bark, the apices and buds sericeous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, 

 with a broad apex suddenly contracted to a short blunt acumen, narrowed 

 in the lower third to the sub-acute base ; the edges entire or faintly cre- 

 nate ; both surfaces glabrous ; the upper greenish, the lower pale yellow- 

 ish when dry ; midrib bold, sometimes piiberulous ; main nerves 15 to 

 20 pairs forming a double series of arches inside the margin, rather 

 prominent as are the reticulations ; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 2 to 3"25 

 in. ; petiole "25 in., stout. Floivers 1'4 in. in diam. ; peduncles 1 to ]'5 

 in. long, smooth ; bracteoles i-otund-reniform, opposite, close to the 

 calyx. Sepals spreading, flesliy with thin ciliolate edges, smooth, rotund, 

 the two outer smaller. Petals larger tlian the sepals, sub-coriaceous 

 with thiu edges, rotund, spreading. Stamens 40 to 50, adpressed- 



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