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The dried fruits of this species sometimes open longitudinally by a 

 sort of quasi-suture — hence the specific name. 



5. Alphonsea cylindrica, King, n. sp. A small tree 20 to 30 feet 

 high ; young branches with long, soft, pale brown pubescence, ultimately 

 glabi'ous, cinereous, striate, Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, 

 sometimes oblanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate ; the base rounded 

 or sub-cuneate, slightly oblique ; upper surface glabrous, shining ; the 

 midrib pubescent, the lower dull sparsely pubescent on the midrib and 

 nerves ; main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, spreading, faint ; length 2'5 to 3"5 

 in., breadth I'l in. to 1'5. in., petiole "15 in. Flowers "35 in. long, single or 

 2 or 3 from leaf-opposed or extra-axillary peduncles ; peduncles "15 to 

 "4 in. long, with deciduous, distichous, sub-orbicular bracts : pedicels 2 to 

 *35 in. long, pubescent, with 1 bracteole near the base. Sepals semi- 

 orbicular, blunt, connate at the base, tomentose outside, glabrous with- 

 in, reflexed. Petals subeqnal, oblong-ovoid, tapering from the sub-saccate 

 base to the sub-acute apex, tomentose outside, pubescent minutely inside 

 except a glabrous patch at the base, 4 in. long. Stamens in 3 rows with 

 short, broad filaments : anthers ovate, the connective very slightly 

 apiculate. Ovaries 3, oblong, densely pale yellowish sericeous, with 

 many ovules in two rows : style shoi't, stigma bifid, sub-capitate. Hipe 

 carpels 1 or 2, elongate, terete, tapering to the apex, pubescent or 

 puberulous, nearly 1 in. long and only '2 in. in diam. 



Perak : on Ulu Bubong, elevat. 400 to 600 feet. King's Collector, 

 No. 10633. 



A species resembling A. stil-dehiscens in its narrow cylindric fruit. 



6. Alphonsea Curtisii, King, n. sp. A scandent shrub : young 

 branches yellowish-pubescent, speedily becoming glabrous and dark- 

 coloured. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acute at base and apex ; 

 npper surface glabrous shining, the lower minutely, sparsely adpressed- 

 puberulous or glabrous, darker than the upper when dry, minutely 

 reticulate ; main nerves about 12 to 15 pairs, sub-horizontal, very faint, 

 intei'-arching far from the edge ; length 4 to 5-5 in., breadth 1*2 to 1-75 

 in., petiole 2 in. Peduncles extra-axillary, 1- or 2-flowered ; flowers 

 about '5 in long, conical in bud : pedicels about "3 in. long, tawny-to- 

 mentose ; bracteoles 1 or 2, sub-oi'bicular. Sepals connate into a spread- 

 ing cup, "25 in. broad, tomentose outside and glabrous inside, with 3 

 broad, sub-acute teeth. Petals much larger than the sepals, fleshy, ob- 

 long, ovate, sub-acute ; the outer tomentose on both surfaces, '4 in. long ; 

 the inner narrower, glabrous inside. Stamens numerous, with short 

 thick filaments : apical process of connective small, not concealing the 

 short perfectly dorsal anther-cells. Pistils about 3, oblong, tomentose, 

 many-ovuled : stigma large, broad, sessile. Bipe carpels unknown. 



Peuang : Cui-tis, No. 1410. 

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