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Inner petals spreading, not vaulted and not trapezoid. 

 Stamens 10 or 12. 



Inner petals hastate ; ripe carpels globular 8. 0. hastata. 

 Inner petals linear-oblong, tlie apices 

 divergent and recurved ; ripe carpels 

 ovoid or slightly obovoid ... ... 9. 0. dodecandra. 



Stamens 6. 



Inner petals cuneiform or cuneiform-retuse ; 

 ripe carpels cylindric ... ... 10. 0. cuneifurmis. 



Inner petals irregulai'ly oblong, their 

 apices broad and curved outwards, ripe 

 carpels globular ... ... 11. 0. pohjcarpa. 



1. Orophea setosa, King, n. sp. A shrub : young branches densely 

 covei'ed with a layer of minute pubescence with numerous, long, brown- 

 ish, straight bristles projecting beyond it ; the older branches dark- 

 coloui'ed and almost glabrous. Leaves membranous, oblong or oblong- 

 oblanceolate, shortly acuminate, the bsse rounded : main nerves 8 to 

 10 pairs, oblique, inter-arching near the edge ; both surfaces sparsely 

 setose, more densely so on the midrib and nerves, the lower also with 

 sparse, minute pubescence ; length 5 5 to 75 in , breadth 2 to 2"75 in , 

 petiole '05 in., setose. Floioers solitary, extra-axillary, about "2 in. in 

 diam. when expanded : pedicels very slender, '75 in. long, pubescent, 

 with a single minute bracteole below the middle. Sepals sub-orbicular, 

 blunt. Outer petals much larger than the sepals, broadly ovate, sub- 

 acute, pubescent outside and glabrous inside like the sepals. Inner 

 petals longer than the outer, vaulted, "22 in. long, the limb trapezoid- 

 sagittatc, pubescent on the back and edges, glabrous in front ; the claw 

 narrow, shorter than the limb. Male flower stamens numerous, cuneate, 

 the connective broadly truncate at the apex. Ovaries unknown. Eipe 

 carpels 4 or 5, ses.sile, globose or oblong-globose, S in. in diara., 

 densely and minutely pubescent and with a few long setae besides. 

 Seeds solitary, rarely 2 ; the testa pale, rather rough ; the albumen very 

 dense. 



Perak : at elevations from 800 to 1,200 feet ; King's Collector, 

 Scortechini. 



2. OuoPHEA Katschallica, Kurz in Trimen's Journ. Bot. 1875, 

 p. 323. A small tree 25 to 30 feet high : young branches slightly puberu- 

 lous at first, ultimately glabrous, black and furrowed. Leaves mem- 

 branous, oblong-lanceolate to oblong or elliptic, shoz-tly and bluntly 

 acuminate, the base sub-cuneatc or rounded ; upper surface ghibi-ous, 

 shining; the lower much reticulate, slightly adpressed- puberlous ; 

 main nerves 3 to 10 pairs, ascending, slender ; length -l to 7 in., breadth 



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