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1. Popowu PAUCiFLORA, Maingay MSS. Hook. fil. Fl. Ind. I, 69. 

 A tree ? Young branches slender, cinereous, strigose. Leaves membran- 

 ous, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, the base acute ; both surfaces gla- 

 brous, minutely granular ; the midrib and 9 or 10 pairs of oblique, little 

 curving main nerves sparsely pilose beneath ; length 5 to 6 in., breadth 

 1'5 to 2 in , petiole "2 in., pubescent. Flowers extra-axillary, solitary or 

 axillary, '25 in. in diam. ; pedicels '15 to "25 in. long, with a basal 

 bracteole, rusty-strigose. Sepals minute, ovate. Petals ; the outer small 

 and like the sepals ; the inner three times as large, sub-orbicular, con- 

 cave, their apices inflexed. Stamens many. Ovaries about 6, strigose ; 

 ovule solitary, erect. Bipe carpels sub-sessile, globular, glabrous. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 56, 



Known only by Maingay's imperfect specimens ; an obscure species. 



2. PoPOWiA RAMOSissiMA, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 105. A 

 small spreading tree ; youug branches at first rufous-pubescent ; the 

 older dark-coloured and furrowed. Leaves membranous, sub-sessile, 

 narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, sometimes slightly obovate, shortly, blunt- 

 ly and abruptly acuminate, the base rounded or slightly narrowed ; both 

 surfaces glabrous, the lower granular and pubescent on the midrib and 

 6 to 8 pairs of ascending rather straight nerves ; length 2*75 to 4 in., 

 breadth 1 to 1"75 in., petiole '05 in. Floiuers globular in bud, leaf-op- 

 posed, solitary or in small fascicles, "2 in, in diam. ; pedicels '15 to "25 

 in. long (longer in fruit), minutely bracteolate, rufous-tomentose. Sepals 

 broadly triangular-ovate, acute, nearly as large as the outer petals and 

 like them tomentose outside, and glabrous inside. Petals sub-equal, 

 coriaceous, rotund, concave ; the inner rather larger and with incurved 

 points. Stamens short, with very broad truncate concave heads. Ova- 

 ries 5 or 6, villous ; ovules 1 or 2, Pipe carpels globose with short stalks, 

 pubescent, -25 to -35 in. in diam. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 27 ; Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 68. Guatteria ramosissima. Wall. Cat. 7294, 8006. 

 Popowia rufula and P. affinis Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. II, 20. 



In all the provinces, common, Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo, 



3. Popowia nitida. King, n, sp. A shrub ? Young branches 

 sparsely and softly rufous-pubescent, the bark brown. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-ovate, bluntly acuminate, the 

 base rounded ; both surfaces reticulate, glabrous and shining, the midrib 

 tomentose on the upper ; main nerves about 12 pairs, very faint, spread- 

 ing and forming double arches inside the edge ; length 25 to 4 in., 

 breadth "6 to 125 in., petiole "1 in. Flowers few, in short extra-axillary 

 racemes, sub-globular, -25 in. in diam. ; pedicels about as long as the 

 flowers, each with 2 sub-orbicular, stem-clasping, pubescent bracteoles. 

 Sepals orbicular, concave, puberulous on both sui'faces, about "15 in, in 



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