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Schoutenia, Kortlials (the author of the genus) says nothing : noi* does 

 Bennet who (PI. Jav. Rar. p. 239, t. 46) describes at greater length 

 than Korthals the species S. ovata, the only one then linown. Bennett 

 neither describes nor figures albumen in the seed. Hasskarl (Retzia 1, 

 136) describes the seeds as exalbuniinous, and I find none in the seeds 

 of these species of which I have been able to examine ripe fruit. The 

 only other known species are S. ovata, Korth. from Java ; and S. hy- 

 poleuca, Pierre (Fl. Cochin-Chine t. 131) from Cambodia. 



2. ScHOUTENiA KuNSTLERi, n. sp., King. A tree 60 to 70 feet 

 high : young branches cinereous, rather rough-glabrous. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, narrowly obovate-oblong or oblauceolate, acute, the margin 

 slightly waved, slightly narrowed to the rounded 3- to 5-nerved base ; 

 upper surface glabrous, shining: lower sub-silvery; the lateral nerves 

 4 or 5 pairs, spreading, curving, inter-arching near the margin, promi- 

 nent on the lower surface as are the basal nerves and the numerous 

 slightly curved transverse veins. Flowera crowded towards the ends of 

 the branches, in numerous short few-flowered scurfy-tomentose racemes 

 or cymes : pedicels from "5 to '75 in. long, jointed and bracteolate above 

 the base, the bracteole oblauceolate. Galijx campanulate, membranous, 

 coloured and veined, stellate-hairy on both surfaces, '5 to "75 in. long, 

 according to age, cut to the base into 5 ovate spreading lobes. Petals 0. 

 Stamens on a slightly elevated torus. Ovary sessile, sub-globose, densely 

 tomentose, 5-celled. Style longer than the stamens. Stigmas 5, short, 

 fleshy. Fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded, surrounded by the slightly accrescent 

 persistent calyx. 



Perak at elevations of from 300 to 800 feet : King's Collector, No, 

 3409 : on Ulu Tupa, Wray, No. 2692. 



According to the field notes of Messrs. Kunstler and Wray, the 

 calyx is yellow when young, but becomes brown when the fruit ripens. 



3. ScHOUTENiA GLOMERATA, n. sp.. King. A tree from 40 to 60 

 feet high : young branches slender, cinereous, minutely pubescent. 

 Leaves membranous, glabx^ous, elliptic-oblong, acute or shortly and 

 bluntly acuminate, the margins slightly waved ; the base broad, rounded 

 or emarginate, 3-nerved, the upper pair of nerves very strong, running 

 to the apex of the leaf and joined to the midrib by numerous prominent 

 curving transverse secondary nerves, all very prominent on the pale 

 silvei'y shining under surface : length 10 to 15 in., breadth 3-5 to 5"5 

 in. ; petiole only -25 in. long, stout, wrinkled. Cymes condensed, very 

 crowded, axillary, 1 to 15 in. in diam. Floivers "25 in. long and 3 in. 

 wide, on tomentose rufous pedicels about 2 in. long. Ckilt/x widely 



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