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40 to 50 feet high : young branches slender, almost black when dry 

 when very young covered by deciduous furfaraceous i-ufous stellate 

 hairs. Leaves thinly coriaceous, \ery inequilateral, oblong to ovate or 

 lanceolate- oblong, entire, acuminate ; the base broad, unequally cordate, 

 one side auriculate or sub-auriculate ; upper surface very dark when 

 dry, glabrous, shining ; the lower densely but minutely tawny or rufous- 

 tomentose with many deciduous cinnamoneous stellate hairs on the 

 surface ; main nerves 6 to 7 pairs, prominent beneath ; length 3 to 

 6'5 in., breadth 1"35 to 2 in. ; petiole "15 in. ; stipules subulate-lanceo- 

 late. Flowers 2 in. long, solitary, or in 2-3-iiowered cymes, axillary, 

 or (by the suppression of the leaves) in terminal racemes : pedicels 

 •o in. long, bracteate, cylindric in bud. Sepals coriaceous, narrowly 

 linear, acute, scurfy, stellate-pubescent externally as are the pedicels 

 and bracteoles, pubescent internally. Petals membranous, obliquely 

 oblong-oblanceolate or sub-spathulate, shorter than the sepals, glabres- 

 cent. Staininal tube and gynophore about '5 in. long, the free part of 

 the filaments rather longer ; fertile anthers about 10 ; staminodes 5, 

 scaly-pubescent above. Ovary ovoid, villous, 5-cellcd. Style shorter 

 than the staminal tube, glabrous : stigma narrowly ovoid. Capsule 

 woody, oblong, 5-angled, sulj-acuto, gradually and sHglitly narrowed at 

 the base, glabrous when ripe ; 3 to 4 in. long and 15 in in diam. Seeds 

 fiat, rS in. long. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 191. Pterospermum 

 lanceaefolium, Bl. (not of Roxb.) Bijdr. 87. P. cinnamoneum, Kurz, 

 For. Fl. Burm i. 147. P. Javanicum, Jungh. Kurz, 1. c. i. 147. 



]-*orak, Penang ; common at low elevations. Distrib. Sumatra, 

 Java, Borneo, Burmah, Assam. 



A very common tree in Perak. Korthal's Bornean species P. fuscum 

 appears to me to be nothing more than a very cinnamon eous-tomentose 

 form of this. And the Peninsular-Indian P. rubiginosam, Heyne, 

 (Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 368) cannot be very different. I 

 should be induced to reduce both to the oldest described species which 

 is this. Of the absolute identity of Kurz's P. cinnamoneum with this 

 I have no doubt whatever. 



3. P. Jackianu.m, Wall. Cat. 11 64. A tree: the small branches 

 slender, rather dark, when young covered by a layer of white 

 minute tomentum with many rufous stellate hairs on its surface. 

 Leaves sub-coriaceous oblong or elliptic-oblong, slightly inequilateral, 

 entire, or sinuate towards the rather abruptly acuminate apex ; the base 

 sub-acnte, or truncate and minutcl}' cordate or emarginate, never 

 auricled ; upper surface pale brown when dry, glabrous except the 

 pubcnilous midrib and nerves ; under surfiico pah; brown or bufF, with 



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