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leaves, many-flowered. Calyx '5 in. long, glabrous, narrowly tubular 

 below, the mouth slightly expanded and with 5 ovate-lanceolate lobes 

 shorter than the tube. Staminal colnuin pilose ; anthers in a ring. 

 Ovaries 5 ; styles iuflexed, cohering by their tips. Follicles 5, from 

 2 to 3 in. long and 1 in. broad, on tomentose stalks, oblong, acute, 

 dilated at the base. Seed ovoid. 



Malacca, Maiugay, 



At once distinguished by the singular calyx, tubular in its lower, 

 lobed and spreading in its upper, half. 



2. Tarrietia, Blume. 



Tall trees. Leaves digitate or simple, glabrous or scaly. Flowers 

 unisexual, panicled. Calyx tubular, small, 5-toothed. Petals 0. 

 Staminal-cohtmn short, bearing a ring of 10-15 very densely clustered 

 anthers, cells parallel. Ovary of 3-5 nearly free carpels opposite the 

 sepals ; styles as many, short, filiform, stigmatose within ; ovules 1 

 in each cell. Ripe carpels of stellately spreading samaras with long 

 falcate wings. Seeds oblong; albumen bipartible ; cotyledons flat; 

 radicle next the hilum. — Distrib. Known species 5 or 6, Australian 

 and Malayan. 



Leaves digitately compound. 



Under-surface of leaflets persistently 



stellate-tomentose ... ... 1. T. Perahensis, 



Under-surface deciduously tomentose, 



the hairs simple ... ... 2. T. Penangiana. 



Leaves simple. 



Fruit glabrous ... ... 3. T. simplicifolia. 



,, tomentose. ..• ... 4. T. Kunstleri. 



1. T. Perakensis, King, n. sp. A tree 40 to 60 feet high : young 

 branches, petioles, petiolules, under surface of leaves (when young) and 

 inflorescence with minute deciduous rusty tomentum. Leaves digitately 

 compound ; leaflets 5 or 6, the lower smaller, obovate-elliptic to obovate- 

 rotund, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, the edges entire, slightly 

 ■wavy ; the base narrowed ; upper surface minutely areolate, glabrous 

 except the very minutely tomentose midrib and nerves ; lower glabrous 

 except the midrib : main nerves iO to 14 pairs, stout and prominent 

 beneath : length of the middle leaflet 45 to 5'5 in., of the lower 2 to 

 35 in. : breadth of the middle 2 to 3 in., of the lower 1"25 to 1"5 in. ; 

 petiolules '5 to 1 in.; petioles "3 to 4*5 in. Inflorescence in solitary, 

 axillary, cymose racemes or panicles more than half as long as the 



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