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and slightly scaly ; maiu nerves 16 to 20 pairs, prominent below, 

 spreading ; length -iS to 7 in., breadth 3 to 45 in. ; petiole 2 to 3 in , 

 thickened towards the apex. Cymes axillary, solitary, many-flowered, 

 1'5 to 2'5 in. long, minutely rusty-tomentose. Floivers 1 in. long; the 

 pedicels shorter, stout. Calyx-tube campanulate, minutely tomentose 

 externally, puberulous within : staminal tube short. Fruit (iuclndiug 

 wing) 3 in. long, obliquely spathulate, glabrous. 



Malacca; Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 231. 



4. T. Kdnstleri, King, n. sp. A tree 50 to 70 feet high : young 

 branches petioles and peduncles minutely stellate-pubescent and lenti- 

 cellate. Leaves elliptic to obovate-oblong, blunt, mucronate, entire, the 

 base rounded or slightly narrowed : upper surface smooth, shining ; the 

 lower pale, sparsely stellate-puberulous on the midrib and nerves, other- 

 wise (under a lens) minutely puberulous: main nerves 7 to 10 pairs, 

 ascending, prominent beneath. Fruit at the apex of a solitary stellate- 

 hairy peduncle, ovoid with an oblique sub-spathulate wing, minutely 

 but densely velvetty f ulvous-tomentose ; length of body 1 in. or more ; 

 wing about the same length and '6 in. broad. 



Perak, near Laroot ; King's Collector No. 7581. 



Flowers of this are at present unknown. The leaves are at once 

 distinguished from those of T. simplicifolia by their pale under surface, 

 and the fruits by their tomentura. 



3. Heritiera, Alton. 



Trees. Leaves coriaceous, simple, scaly beneath. Flowers small, 

 unisexual, in axillary panicles. Calyx 5, rarely 4-6 toothed or cleft. 

 Petals 0. Anthers in a ring at the top of the column, cells 2, parallel. 

 Ovaries 5-6, almost free : style short, stigmas 5, thick ; ovules solitary 

 in each cell. Ripe carpels woody, indehiscent, keeled or winged. 

 Albumeti ; cotyledons thick ; radicle next the hilum. — A genus of 

 6 or 7 species, natives of the Tropics of the old world, and of Australia. 



H. LiTTOEALis, Dryand. in DC. Prod, i.484. A tree : young branches 

 stout, rough. Leaves oblong or elliptic, the apex rounded or acute ; 

 the edges entire ; base rounded or slightly cordate ; lower surface pale ; 

 main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, slightly prominent beneath : length 5 to 10 in., 

 breadth 225 to 4 in., petiole 5 to 75 in. : stipules lanceolate, caducous. 

 Flowers '2 in. long, in many-flowered axillary cymose panicles shorter 

 than the leaves. Calyx 5-toothed, puberulous, half as long as the 

 pedicel. Bipe fruit 1*5 to 3'5 in. long, woody, compressed ovoid, boldly 

 keeled at apex and on dorsum, glabrous, shining. Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. 



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