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young branches covered with minnte soft deep brown tomentum. Leaves 

 elliptic-oblong, to ovate-elliptic, acute or shortly and narrowly acumi- 

 nate, slightly narrowed to the rounded sub-unequal base ; both surfaces 

 minutely granular, the upper with a few scattered hairs ; the lower 

 fuscous and more densely and softly pubescent, both the midrib and 

 nerves tomentose or pubescent ; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, spreading, 

 indistinct; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1'4 to 1'8 in., petiole '1 in. Flowers 

 solitary or in pairs, extra-axillary, about '25 in. in diam., pedicels dense- 

 ly tomentose, "35 in. long, bracteolate. Sepals broadly ovate, sub-acute, 

 densely tomentose outside, glabrous inside, persistent in the fruit. Petals 

 sub-equal, thick, sub-orbicular, very tomentose outside, glabrous inside. 

 Bipe carpels few, sometimes solitary, ovoid, blunt, slightly oblique at the 

 base and slightly narrowed to the stalk, minutely velvety-pubescent, "5 in. 

 long and '35 in. in diam.; stalks 2 in., tomentose; torus small. Seed 

 solitary, glabrous, rugose, vertically furrowed. 



Perak, at Kinta ; at elevations under 1,000 feet ; King's Collector. 

 A species very like P. fusca, but with shoi'ter, fewer-nerved leaves; 

 evidently not common. None of the collectors' specimens have fully 

 developed flowers, and the foregoing description of these is taken from 

 a bud. 



9. POPOWIA TOMENTOSA, Maingay MSS. Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 70 

 A tree ; young branches softly rusty-tomentose, when older black and 

 rugose. Leaves elliptic-oblong to elliptic, acute or shortly acuminate, 

 the base rounded, slightly unequal-sided ; both surfaces, but especially the 

 lower, softly pubescent ; main nerves about 10 pairs, slightly prominent, 

 spreading; length 4*5 to 55 in., breadth 1*75 to 3 in.; petiole "1 in., 

 tomentose. Floxoers extra-axillary, sub-sessile, 25 in. in diam. Sepals 

 broadly ovate, connate, slightly smaller than the petals. Petals sliglitly 

 unequal, villous outside, glabrous inside ; the outer ovate, thick ; the 

 the inner larger, very thick and concave, oblong, connivent. Stamens 

 about 25. Ovaries 7 to 9, oblong, pubescent ; ovules 2. Ripe carpels 

 globose, slightly pubescent, '5 to 74 in. in diam., 2-seeded; their stalks 

 "35 in., pubescent. 



Malacca; Mningay, (Kew Distrib.) 1^0.54. Penang : Curtis, No. 

 648. Perak ; Scortechini. 



I am not satisfied that there are not two species involved here, the 

 one with broader leaves and shorter pubescence. 



10. PoPOWiA NERVTFOLIA, Maingay MSS. ex Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I, 60. A small tree 12 to 25 feet high : young branches at first densely 

 rusty-tomentose, afterwards dark-coloured and furrowed. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, from oblong-lanceolate or ob-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, shortly 

 abruptly and bluntly acuminate, the base acute ; upper surface shining, 

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