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flowers. Sejmls lanceolate, sub-acute, minutely adpressed-sericeous 

 externally, almost glabrous internally except the pubescent inverted 

 edges, the midrib equally thickened from base to apex. Petals slightly 

 longer than the sepals, oblong, expanded at the base, the apex broad, 

 cut into 10 to 15 cylindric filiform glabrous fiinbrire one-fourth of the 

 leno-th of the petals : lower part sericeous on both surfaces but especial- 

 ly on the inner (where the hairs are reversed), cucullate with the edges 

 much infolded, and with a large basal gland at each side of which is an 

 imperfect cell. Torus a fleshy deeply 10-lobed glabrescent disc. 

 Stamens about 15 ; slightly shorter than the petals, filaments pubescent, 

 less than half the length of the puberulous sub-equal anthers : outer 

 cell with a short sub-recurved awn. Ovary ovoid, pointed, smooth, 

 glabrous, 2-celled. Style as long as the stamens, cylindric, grooved, 

 glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid, blunt at each end, '5 in. long and S in. in 

 diam., 1-celled, 1-seeded ; pulp rather thin, slightly fibrous, stone minute- 

 ly rugulose, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 408. 



^Singapore ; Wallich, Ridley. Malacca ; Griffith, No. 698, Maingay 

 No. 258 (Kew. Distrib.). Penang ; Curtis, No. 256. Pei^ak; Scortechiui, 

 King's Collector, Nos. 269, 6907, 10831. 



Miquel's Monocera Palembanica, from Sumatra, judging from the 

 only authentic specimen which I have seen (and which has no flowers), 

 if not identical with this must be a very closed allied species. Undar 

 his Catalogue, No. 2678, Wallich issued two species, the above described 

 as E. pedunculatus, and. another which is clearly E. nitidus, Jack. 



15. ELiEOCARPUS KuNSTLERi, n. sp , King. A tree 50 to 70 feet 

 high: young branches as thick as a goose-quill, polished, thickened and 

 rough at the apex : all parts glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves 

 coriaceous, rotund-obovate, the apex broadly obtuse, sometimes with a 

 short broad apiculus, rather abruptly narrowed from below the middle 

 to the acuminate base ; both surfaces, shining, glabrous ; main nerves 

 about 10 pairs, ascending, interarching fi-eely inside the entire or cre- 

 nate-serrate edge: prominent beneath; the I'cticulations rather faint; 

 length 5 to 8 in., breadth 2-75 to 3-75 in., petiole -5 to '7 in., pubescent. 

 Racemes crowded from the axils of fallen leaves and a few axillary, less 

 than half as long as the leaves, 6 to 9-flowered : rachises and pedicels 

 slender, puberulous, glabrous when old. Flowers "6 in. in diam., their 

 pedicels "5 in. or more long. Sepals lanceolate, sub-acute, pubescent on 

 both surfaces, the midrib thickened and villous at the base inside. 

 Petals about as long as the sepals, oblong slightly obovate, obtuse, thick- 

 ened in the lower half, the apex with 6 to 8 rather broad teeth, ad- 

 pressed-sericeous outside, densely villous inside. Torus a shallow 



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