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a layer of minute toraentuin aud on tlie surface (and especially on the 

 midrib and nerves) many minute deciduous rusty stellate hairs ; nerves 

 10 to 12 pairs, prominent beneath, spreading ; length 4< to 5'5 in., breadth 

 15 to 2 in., petiole "25 in. ; stipules caducous. Floivers 2 in. long: the 

 buds cyliudric, acute, solitary, axillary ; pedicels "1 in. long, tomentose 

 like the exterior of the sepals, minute, linear-subulate. Sepals linear- 

 lanceolate, adpressed-sericeous within. Petals shorter than the sepals, 

 oblanceolate, scaly, puberulous externally. Staminal tube and gynophore 

 '25 in. long, the free part of the filaments more than twice as long ; 

 fertile anthers about 12 ; starainodes 5. Ovary fusiform. Style longer 

 than the stamens, pubescent below ; stigma cylindric. Capsule {fide 

 Masters) shortly stalked, ovoid, terete, acute, 1"5 in. long and 1 in. in 

 diam., covered with flat scaly hairs. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind i. 

 367 ; P. ohlongum, Wall. Cat. 1165. 



Penang ; Jack, Wallich, Curtis. Malacca ; Stolickza, at low eleva- 

 tions. 



This species does not appear to be a common one. P. Bhimeanum 

 has probably been mistaken for it. 



4. P. ACEBOiDES, AVall. Cat. 1171. A tree 35 to 50 feet high : 

 young branches rather slender, covered (as are the petioles and under 

 surfaces of the leaves) by a thin felted layer of minute white tomentum, 

 above which is a superficial deciduous layer of loose stellate rufous hairs. 

 Leaves coriaceous, more or less elliptic, sometimes obovate-elliptic, the 

 apex abruptly and shortly acuminate, the edge often straight at the 

 sides, sometimes waved, never lobed : the base sub-truncate, often 

 cordate, 5 to 7-nerved ; upper surface (when adult) glabrous : maia 

 lateral nerves 12 to 15 pairs, straight, oblique ; length 5 to 10 in., 

 breadth 325 to 5'5 iu., petiole '4! to 5 in. Floivers 1'5 to 1'75 in. long ; 

 solitary, or in 3 to 4-flowered sub-sessile axillary cymes ; pedicels "2 in. 

 long, each with a deeply lobed tomentose bract ; the buds narrowly 

 cylindric, ribbed. Sepals very coriaceous, recurved, longer than the 

 petals, linear, acute, scurfy-tomentose outside, adpressed-pubescent 

 within. Petals membi-anous, obovate, glabrous in the inner, scurfy on 

 the outer, surface. Stamens as long as the petals or shorter, the tube 

 only -25 in. long : fertile anthers about 15, linear. Style shorter than 

 the stamens, glabrous ; stigma clavate ; ovai'y densely sericeous, 5- 

 angled. Capsule woody, oblong, pointed at both ends, angled, glabrou.s, 

 2 to 2-5 in. long. Kurz in Journ. A.s. Soc. Beng. ] 873, pt. 62 ; For. 

 Flora Burni. i. 145. P. acerifolium, Mast, (not of Willd.) in Hook. fll. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. i. 3G8, in part. Miq. 111. Arch. Ind. 84, in part. 



Andaman Islands; Heifer, No. 568 (Kew Distrib.), Kurz, King's 

 Collectors. Distrib. Burmah ; Wallich. 



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