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brancbes, axillary and terminal, stellate-pubescent, slender, spreading-, 

 many-branched. Flowers very numerous, 1 in. long, the pedicels 

 slender and rather longer. Calyx when expanded rotate, cut half way 

 down into triangular very acute or acuminate spreading teeth, densely 

 stellate-tomentose outside. Petals broadly oblanceolate, obtuse, narrow- 

 ed to the base. Stamens 5-delphous. Staminodes apparently absent. 

 Ovary globose, densely tomentose, not visibly ridged, 5-celled. Style 

 filiform, tapering, straight, glabrous. Fruit unknown. 



Perak, at elevations from 600 to 1000 feet : King's Collector, Nos. 

 7616 and 7730. 



A species distinguished by its slender hoary panicles, with flowers 

 by far more numerous than in any of the other species described here. 



7. Pentace Curtisii, n. sp. King. A large tree: the young branches 

 slender, with dark-coloured bark, very minutely adpressed-lepidote, not 

 hairy. Leaves ovate elliptic, with a short abrupt blunt acumen, the 

 base rounded : upper surface glabrous, the lower cinereous ; basal 

 nerves 2 j^airs, one pair slender and close to the margin, the other 

 brandling on one side : lateral nerves 2 or 3 pairs ; all ascending and 

 rather prominent beneath : length 8"25 to 5*5 in., breadth 2*25 to 2"75 

 in. ; petiole "75 to 1 in. slender, slightly thickened at apex. Panicles 

 mostly terminal (a few smaller axillai-y) 4'5 to 6 in. long with sparse 

 cinereous stellate tomentum and scales, few-branched, and few-flowered. 

 Flowers '15 in. long, on pedicels shorter than themselves. Calyx widely 

 campanulate, stellate-tomentose outside; its teeth as long as the tube, 

 broadly triangular, rather blunt. Petals oblanceolate or obovate-obtuse, 

 much nari'owed to the base. Staminodes lanceolate, acuminate, half as 

 long as the filaments. Stamens in 5 bundles. Ovary turbinate, with 

 8 or 9 blunt ridges, lepidote-pubescent : style rather stout, cylindric, 

 shoi-ter than the stamens. Fruit '5 in. long, with 8 semi-elliptic mem- 

 branous wings "2 in. broad. 



Penang; Curtis, No. 1573. 



8. Pentace eximia, n. sp.. King. A tree 50 to 70 feet high: 

 young branches slender, dark-coloured, glabrous. Leaves ovate-elliptic 

 to ovate-rotund, shoi'tly and abruptly acuminate, the base slightly 

 narrowed or rounded : upper surface glabrous, shining : lower paler and 

 dull ; basal nerves 1 pair, bold and reaching to the apex, often with a 

 slender small sub-marginal pair : lateral nerves usually only one pair, 

 short and curving; all rather bold beneath : length 4 to 55 in., breadth 

 2 to 4 in. ; petiole '75 to I'l in., thickened at the apex. Panicles terminal, 

 3-5 to 5 in. long, (longer ia fruit), minutely scurfy-tomentose, with 



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