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glabrescent, tlie midrib and nerves pubescent; main nerves 10 to 12 

 pairs, spreading, rather faint ; length 325 to 7 in., breadth 1"5 to 2*25 

 in , tonientose. Peduncles solitary, 1- to S-flowered, extra-axillary, very 

 slender, '5 to 1 in. long, pnbescent, with numerous, distichous, sub- 

 decidnous, linear-lanceolate, pubescent bracts. i'^Zo^fers large, snb-pend- 

 nloas. Sepals narro-\vly lanceolate, acuminate. Outer petals larger 

 than the sepals, mottled red and yellow, ovate, very acuminate, veined, 

 pubescent on both sides, '5 in. long. Inner petals 1 in. long, with lanceo- 

 late, much acuminate, very pubescent limb ; the claw long, narrow, 

 pubescent. Stametis 6, broad, not apiculate, hairy at the base. Stami- 

 nodes 3, orbicular. Ovaries 3 to 6, cylindric, very hirsute, 6- or 7-ovuled : 

 stigma sessile Carpels 4 to 6, much elongate, cylindric, puberulous, 



3 to 5 in. long, and about "3 in. in diam., moniliform when dry. Seeds 



4 to 7, linear-oblong. 



Perak ; Scortechini, King's Collector. 



7. Obophea gracilis, King, n. sp. A tree 20 to 30 feet high ; 

 young branches slender, at first minutely tomentose, afterwards darkly 

 cinereous and glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous when adult, lanceolate, 

 much acuminate, the base cuneate or slightly rounded, both surfaces 

 glabrous : main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, spreading, inter-arching far from 

 the edge, very indistinct ; length 2"5 to 3'5 in,, breadth "9 to 1"2 

 in , petiole "05 in. Flowers solitary, "25 in. in diam., extra- axillary ; 

 pedicels '75 to 1 in. long, very thin, glabrous, jointed, and with several 

 minute, subulate bractcoles above the middle. Sepals broadly ovate, 

 sub-acute, connate at the base, sjireading or reflexed. Outer petals larger 

 than the sepals, ovate, acute, * 15 in. long; both surfaces glabrous, the edges 

 alone minutely pubescent. Inner petals '25 in. long', slightly vaulted ; 

 the limb thick, trapezoid, with pubescent edges ; the claw narrow, not 

 so long as the limb, glabrous. Stamens 6, in a single row, the connec- 

 tive much produced above the rather small dorsal anther-cells. Ovaries 

 4 to 10, ovoid, glabrous, 2-ovuled : stig-ma large, sessile. Bipe carpels 

 6 to 10, globular, glabrous, "45 in. in diam., their stalks -25 in. long. 

 Seeds solitary or two together, depressed-globose, with a transverse 

 groove and ridge, shining, pale. 



Perak : Scortechini, King's Collector. 



This is closely allied to the W. Peninsular 0. tinifora, but that 

 species has twice as many stamens. 



8. Orophea iiastata. King, n. sp. A tree 20 to 40 feet high : all 

 parts glabrous except the inflorescence : young branches rather slender, 

 dai-k-coloured. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 

 shortly caudate-acuminate ; the base cuneate, rarely rounded ; both 

 surfaces shining, the lower pale : main nerves 6 to 8 pair.'*, .spreading, 



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