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distantly snlj-ci-enafe ; both surfaces minutely anr! spnvpely stellate-pub- 

 escent, glabrescent when old, harsh ; length and breadth 2 to 6 in., 

 petiole less than half as long as the blade. Flowers in stout few- 

 flowered terminal racemes longer than the leaves ; peduncles stout, very 

 rugulose, ebracteate, '75 to 1'5 in. long. Involucres combined into a 

 bluntly-lobed cup much shorter than the calyx. Sepals oblong-lanceo- 

 late, 1*5 in, long, coriaceous, united for half their length or more. 

 Petals membranous, spathulate, 4 in. long, glabrous inside, boldly 

 striate and hispid-pubescent externally. Staminal-tube stellate-pub- 

 escent. Capsule obovoid, truncate, shorter than the peisistent close- 

 ly adherent calyx, densely stellate-pubescent and very rugulose, 5- 

 valved, dehiscing only at the apex. Seeds numei'ous, obovate, sub- 

 compressed, with shortly pilose angles, the rest of the surface scaly. 



Mount Ophir, Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 216. Perak ; 

 King's Collector 7024. 



I have not been able to detect stipules on any of the specimens 



1 have seen. They are probably fugacious. 



5. Thespesia, Corr. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves entire. Inflorescence axillary. Bracfeoles 

 5-8, arising from the thickened end of the peduncle, deciduous. Calyx 

 cup-shaped, truncate, minutely 5-toothed. Corolla convolute. Staminal- 

 tube 5-tootlaed at the apex. Ovary 4-5-celled ; style club-shaped, 5- 

 furrowed, entire or 5-toothed ; ovules few in each cell. Capsule loculi- 

 cidal or scarcely dehiscent. Seeds tomentose ; cotyledons conduplicate, 

 black-dotted. — Natives of tropical Asia, Madagascar, and Australasia ; 

 species about 6. 



T. POPULNEA, Corr. in Ann. Mus. ix. p. 290. A tree 20 to 30 feet 

 hio-h, young shoots scaly. Leaves on long petioles, sub-coriaceous, 

 broadly cordate, acuminate, entire, glabrous above, sparsely scaly on 

 lower surface ; the base 5 to 7-nerved with a glandular pore between 

 the nerves ; length 4-5 to 6 in., breadth 3 to 4 in. petiole 2*5 in. Flowers 



2 to 3 in. in diam., solitary, axillary, on peduncles shorter than the 

 petioles ; petals bright yellow with a brown spot at the base ; bracteoles 

 close to the calyx, lanceolate, often abortive. Capsule 1 to 1'5 in. in diam., 

 depressed-spheroidal, scaly, becoming glabrescent ; pericarp of 2 layers. 

 Seeds 1 to 3 in each cell, reniform, minutely tomentose or mealy. Mast, 

 in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 345; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i. 128; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 150; Pierre Fl. For. Coch-Chine x. 173; Bl. Bijdr. 

 73 ; Cav. Diss. iii. 152, t. 56, f . 1 ; DC. Prodr. i. 456 ; W. & A. Prodr. 

 i. 54; Wight Ic. t. 8; Thwaites Enum. 27; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 63; 



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