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Styles sliolitly longer than the stamens, subulate, bent at the apex. 

 Fruit unknown, 



Perak ; Scortechini, No. 1918. 



Collected only ouce by the late Fr. Scortechini and referred by him 

 to B. elata, Roxb. The species is, however, quite distinct from B. elata ; 

 and also from B. peltata, which it more resembles in its leaves. 



4. Brownlowia maceophylla, King n. sp. A tree 30 to 40 feet 

 high : young branches very stout, deciduously rufoas-puberulous. 

 Leaves very coriaceous, rotund, those on the older branches elliptic, the 

 apex rounded or very slightly and shortly apiculate, the edges sub- 

 undulate, the base broad, emarginate or slightly cordate, both surfaces 

 glabrous ; main nerves 7 to 9 basal and about 2 pairs lateral, prominent 

 on both surfaces, secondary nerves transverse and very distinct : length 

 of the rotund leaves 11 to 17 in., breadth 10 to 14: of the elliptic, 

 length 6 to 10 in., breadth 3"5 to 5'5 in. : petiole 2-25 to 4'5 in., thickened 

 at both ends. Panicle terminal, almost as long as the leaves, its 

 branches numerous, compressed, grooved, spreading, scurfy and rusty- 

 pubescent : bracts few, linear-lanceolate, nearly 1 in. long, persistent. 

 Floivers "65 in. long : their peduncles shorter than the calyx, stout, 

 deeply grooved. Calyx rather widely cylindric-campanulate, its teeth 

 about half as long as the tube, acute, triangular, rusty-tomentose and 

 scurfy externally. Petals oblong, obtuse, very little narrowed to the 

 base and without any very distinct claw. Ovaries 3 to 5, narrowly 

 ovoid, compressed, vertically ridged, lepidote as are the conjoined styles. 

 Fruit sub-globose, much compressed, covered with a layer of very 

 minute pale hairs, '75 in. in diam. 



Perak, at low elevations and in moist ground ; Scortechini, Wray, 

 King's Collector. 



2 Pentacb, Hassk. 



Trees. Herbaceous portions sometimes pubescent or scaly, ulti- 

 mately glabrous. Leaves entire, leathery, the lower surface (except in 

 one species) pale from a thin layer of minute adpressed scaly hair. 

 Flowers numerous, small, in terminal panicles. Calyx bell-shaped, 

 usually 5-fid. Petals 5, membranous, glabrous, longer than the calyx, 

 glandless. Stamens numerous, on a slightly raised torus, usually penta- 

 delphous. Staminodes 5, opposite the sepals. Anthers subglobose ; 

 pollen globose, 3-pored. Ovary 5-celled, cells 2-ovuled ; ovule pendu- 

 lous, raphe next the placenta. Styles united, rarely free. Fruit dry, 

 indehiscent, 3-10-winged, 1-celled, 1-seeded by abortion. Seed solitary 

 albuminous. — Distrib. About 15 species, all Malayan. 



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