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young branches and inflorescence pale tawny-pubescent. Leaves ovate 

 to elliptic-ovate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the mai'gin cartilaginous, 

 sometimes crenate-serrate, the base always entire and rounded ; upper 

 surface glabrous, shining : the lower dull, pale but not glaucous, with 

 scattered black dots, glabrescent except the puberulous midrib and 6 or 7 

 pairs of rather prominent sub-ascending main nerves ; the reticulations 

 distinct, wide; length 225 to 3*75 in., breadth r25 to 1'75 in.; petiole 

 •75 to 1*25 in., pubescent. Racemes mostly from the wood below the 

 leaves (a few axillary) more than half as long as the leaves. Floiuers 

 •2 in. in diam , their pedicels "1 in. long or less : buds ovoid, blunt. 

 Sepals lanceolate, sub-acute, outside tomentose, inside pubescent and 

 the midrib thickened ; the edges not incurved. Petals broadly cun- 

 eate, glabrous, cut for a third or a fourth of their length into about 

 25 narrow fimbriae ; the base truncate. Torus of 5 distinct, fleshy, 

 oblong, truncate, sevei^al -grooved, velvety glands. Stamens 20 to 25, 

 shorter than the petals ; filaments less than half as long as the minutely 

 scaberulous anthers ; cells sub-equal, the longer sometimes with 2 or 3 

 short white hairs. Ovary globose, pointed, grooved, tomentose, 8-celled. 

 Stijle slightly longer than the ovary, conic-cylindric, pubescent at the 

 base, glabrescent above. Fruit ovoid-globular, glabrous, slightly 

 rugose, 1 to 1"25 in. long when ripe, and '8 to "9 in. in diam. : pulp 

 rather thin : stone bluntly rugose : putamen very hard, thick : 1 cell 

 with a solitary seed, the other 2 cells abortive. 



Perak ; on Gunong Bubu at 5000 feet elevation ; Wray, No. 3857 : 

 Gunong Batu Patch, Wray, No. 1107; Scortechini, No, 400. 



This resembles E. parvifolius, Wall, in some respects ; but its 

 leaves have more rounded bases, their nerves are rather more numerous 

 aud the petioles longer ; the flower buds are blunt and not pointed as in 

 that species, and they are tomentose rather than pubescent ; also 

 the stamens are more numerous and the ovary is 3 celled. This is found 

 moreover at much higher elevations than E. parvifolius which is found at 

 elevations under 1000 feet. 



6. El^iocarpus SATJCiFOLius, n. sp.. King. A tree 30 feet high : 

 young branches puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, narrowly lanceo- 

 late, slio-htly oblique : acuminate, serrulate-crenulate except at the entire 

 cuneate base; upper surface glabrous, shining, olivaceous when dry, 

 the midrib puberulous ; lower dull brown when dry, glabrescent, the 

 midrib puberulous: main nerves about 8 pairs, ratlier straight, sub- 

 ascending, slender; length 3 to 35 in., breadth "7 to '9 iu. : petiole 

 about '5 in., puberulous. Racemes from the lower axils and from the 

 axils of fallen leaves, nearly as long as the leaves; the slender rachises, 



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