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1. BiJOWNLOwiA, Roxb. 



Trees. Pubescence stellate or scaly. Leaves entire, 3-5-nerved, 

 feather-veined. Flowers numerous, small, in large terminal or axillary 

 panicles. Calyx bell-sliaped, irregularly 3-5-fid. Petals 5, without 

 glands. Stamens many, free, springing from a raised torus. Stammodes 

 5, within the stamens, opposite the petals and petaloid. Anthers sub- 

 globose. Ovaries 5, each. 2-ovulate ; styles awl-shaped, slightly coherent ; 

 ovules ascending. Carpels ultimately free, 2-valved, 1-seeded. Albumen 

 0; cotyledons thick, fleshy. — Distrib. Nine species confined to Tropical 

 Asia. 



Leaves not peltate. 



Leaves lanceolate 



„ broadly elliptic to elliptic-rotund 

 Leaves peltate. 



Leaves minutely haiiy beneath 

 „ glabrous on both surfaces 



1. Brownlowia lanceolata, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. V. Suppl. 

 ii. 57. A tree 25 to 30 feet high; young branches pale when dry, sub- 

 lepidote. Leaves thinly coriaceous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, the base obtuse ; upper surface when adult glabrous, shining, 

 the lower covered by a dense layer of minute whitish yellow shining 

 scales : main nerves 6 to 8 pairs (1 pair of them ba&al), not prominent : 

 length 4-5 to 6 in., breadth 15 to 1-75 in., petiole 25 to "4 in. Panicles 

 axillary or terminal, 1 to 3 in. long, and less than L in. across, few- 

 flowered. Flowers -25 in. long, their pedicels about as long. Calyx 

 •2 in. long, scaly like the pedicel, its lobes lanceolate. Petals longer 

 than the calyx, oblong, blunt, slightly narrowed to the shortly unguicu- 

 Ifite base, glabrous. Anther-cells sub-divaricate, sub-confluout when 

 adult. Ovary deeply 3 to 5-lobed, pubescent, the cells 2-oviiled. Ripe 

 carpels distinct, sub-globose, truncate, compressed on their inner sur- 

 faces, minutely lepidote and pubescent, -5 in. in diam. Seed solitary, 

 ■with thin testa and large sub-hemispheric cotyledons. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. i. 381 : Kurz For. Flora Burm. 154. 



Malacca, Griffith. Distrib. Burmah and Bengal; in tidal forests 

 and mangrove swamps. 



The young parts are covered with rusty or pale brown scales, but 

 the adult branchlets leaves and flovvei\s are as above described. 



2. Brownlowia Kleinhovioidea, King, n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet 

 high : young branches rather sleudcr, covered with a dense thin layer of 



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