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ascending", curved ; length 5 to G in., breadth 25 to 3 in. ; petiole "75 to 



1 in., stout, and tliickened at the apex. Panicles terminal, 4 to 5 in. 

 long and less than 2 in. wide, little branched and few-flowered. 

 Floioers about 1 in. long, their pedicels about as long. Calyx rotate, 

 minutely lepidote outside ; the teeth ti'iangular, spreading. Petals ovate, 

 narrowed to a short claw. Stamens about 30, 5-delphous. Staniinodes 

 lanceolate, as long as the filaments. Ovary globose, slightly pointed, 

 10-ridged, slightly hairy, 5-celled. Style about as long as the ovary, 

 cylindiic. Stigma terminal, small. Fruit unknown. 



Perak, King's Collector, No. 3i28. 



5. Pentace macrophylla, n. sp., King. A tree usually from 20 

 to 30 feet high, but occasionally as much as 50 feet. Young branches 

 rather slender, pale brown, glabrous. Leaves large, ovate-elliptic to 

 almost rotund, the apex very shortly and abruptly blunt-acuminate, the 

 base rounded: upper surface glabrous; the lower dull; basal nerves 



2 pairs, the upper branched on one side ; lateral nerves from the midrib 

 2 to 3 pairs, all ascending and little curved, prominent beneath ; length 

 7 to 14 in., breadth 5 to 12 in. ; petiole 25 to 3 in., stout. Panicles 

 terminal and axillary, 6 to 15 in. long, lax, spreading, minutely yellow- 

 ish-pubescent and scurfy. Floivers "15 in. long and "2 in. in diam., on 

 pedicels about as long as the calyx. Calyv almost rotate, cut for two- 

 thirds of its length into 5 lanceolate acute teeth, minutely yellowish- 

 tomentose outside. Petals oblanceolate, obtuse. Staminodes linear, as 

 long as the stamens. Stamens in 5 bundles of about 15 each. Ovary 

 ovoid, scaly and pubescent, obtusely 5-angled. Style rather shorter 

 than the stamens, cylindric, pointed. Fruit "75 in. long with 10 radiat- 

 ing semi-elliptic striate .sparsely scaly wings each L in. wide. 



Perak at elevations up to 500 feet ; King's Collector, Scortechini, 

 Wray : common. 



Distinguished from all the other known species by the large size of 

 its leaves. 



6. Pentace floribdxda, n. sp., King. A tree 40 to 70 feet high : 

 young branches slender, sparsely stellate-puberulous, the bark dark- 

 coloured. Leaves elliptic-oblong to elliptic-i-otund, the apex shortly and 

 ratlier abruptly apiculato ; the base rounded or slightly narrowed ; upper 

 surface glabrous, lower cinereous and with some scattered pubescence ; 

 basal nerves 2 pairs, one of them branching on one side: lateral nerves 

 2 or 3 pairs, all ascending and all rather prominent ; transverse veins 

 not prominent; length 5 to 6-5 in., breadth 2o to 375 in., petiole 1 to 2 

 in., thickened towards the apex. Panicles towards the apices of the 



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