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ceous, oval-oblong, sometimes slightly oblanceolate, the apex obtuse, 

 very slightly emarginate, the edges thickened and slightly recurved, quite 

 entire or very faintly sab-serrulate ; the base slightly iiaiTOwed, roundish ; 

 both surfaces shining, the upper greenish ; the lower dull, tinged with 

 brown when dry, midrib bold ; nerves about 12 pairs, thick but incon- 

 spicuous ; length 1 75 to 225 in., breadth "9 to I'l in. ; petiole '15 in., 

 thick. Flowers about I in. in diam., axillary, solitary, .sub-sessile, only 

 in the upper axils ; the buds elongate-obovoid ; the bi*acts numerous, 

 closely imbricate, passing into the sepals, all orbicular and pubescent 

 externally with broad scarious glabrous edges. Petals much larger than 

 the sepals, orbicular, densely and minutely pubescent externally, fleshy 

 with thin glabrous edges. Stamens numerous ; anthers ovate, about 

 one-fourtli of the length of the slender cylindric filaments Ovary 

 ovoid-conic, ridged, adpressed-puhescent, 5-ceUed. Style single, boldly 

 5-ridged; stigmas distinct, small. Fruit slightly under 1 in. long, '4! in. 

 in diatn., 5-angled, adpressed-pubescent, subtended by the elon<jate im- 

 bricate cup formed by the sepals and bracts. ISeeds "75 in. in length, of 

 which one half is wing. 



Perak. Scortechini, No. 402b. 



Father Scortechini's scanty specimens are accompanied by no notes ; 

 but, from the species of Ilymenoyhyllum growing on the branches of 

 some of them,*I conclude that they were collected probably at elevations 

 of 4000 or 5000 feet. The remarkable imbricate buds at once dis- 

 tinguish this species. 



6. GoRDONiA MULTiNERVis, King, n. sp. A tree 40 to 60 feet high ; 

 young branches smooth, greenish, sub-compressed, all parts glabrous 

 except the flowers. Leaves thinly coriaceous, obovate, apex rounded or 

 mucronate, faintly crenate-serrate or subentire, attenuate below the 

 middle and passing into the short petiole ; upper surface greenish when 

 dry, the lower brown, midrib bold; main nerves 12 to 18 pairs, spread- 

 ing, rather faint, interarching 2 in. from the edge, length 55 to 8 in. 

 breadth 25 to 325 in. ; petiole '2 to '25 in., stout. Flowers 1"25 in. in 

 diam., on stout curved peduncles "6 to "6 in. long; bracts small, few 

 fugaceous. Sepals rotund, fle.shy, spreading, adpresaed-sericeous ex- 

 ternally, the edges .glabrous. Petals like the sepals but larger and thin- 

 ner, spreading. Anthers shoi't, broadly ovate, only a quarter of the 

 length of the slender slightly flattened filaments. Ovary ovoid-conic 

 adpi-essed-.sericeous, 5-celled. jS/T/^e single, thick, sub-glabrous. Stinma 

 discoid, with 5 blunt lobes. Fruit unknown. 



Pertak ; Scortechini, No. 1968. 



The style and stigmas are quite those of a Qordonia. The leaves 

 however, are more those of a Vyrenaria and are very like those of the 

 Burmese P. attenuata, Seem. 



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