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pale tornentose : sepals all enlarged, membranous, reticulate and 

 concave at the base ; tlie three outer linear-oblong, obtuse, slightly 

 narrowed to the concave base, 5-nerved, 2"25 in. long and "4 in. broad ; 

 the two inner of the same shape, but only 1-nerved, narrower and only 

 1*5 in. long. 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 3571 and 3617. 



This a good deal resembles S. Maxivelliana, King ; but its leaves have 

 more nerves, its slightly oblique petals are not saccate at the base, its 

 ovary is ovoid-conical, and minutely tomentose with a short style ; 

 whereas in S. Maxivelliana the jjetals are saccate at the base, and the 

 ovary is hemispheric with a long style. 



11. Shobea pauciflora. King, n. sp. A tree 50 to 90 feet 

 high : young branches slender, their bark brown puberulous and 

 lepidote. Leaves thinly coriaceous, from oblong to elliptic, shortly 

 acuminate ; the base abruptly cuneate, slightly unequal-sided, or 

 (in the elliptic forms) almost rounded: main nerves 9 to 11 pairs, 

 oblique, straight, prominent beneath : length 4 to 5 in., breadth 

 1'8 to 2'5 in., petiole *6 to "7 in. Panicles few, axillary or 

 terminal, few-flowered, 1'75 to 4 in. long, rather coarsely pubescent. 

 Floioers '4 in. long, secund, shortly pedicellate, each subtended by 

 an ovate, solitaiy, puberulous, deciduous bract. Sepals broadly ovate, 

 tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Petals broadly elliptic, obtuse, 

 concave at the base, veined, inside glabrous, the outside half glabrous 

 and half adpressed-sericeous. Stamens 15, in 3 rows : the outer row 

 smaller and with filiform filaments, the inner rows with filaments longer 

 and expanded in the lower half ; the anthers of all shortly ovate, 

 the connective produced into an awn twice as long as the stamen. 

 Ovary hemispheric, tomentose ; style nearly 3 times as long, puberulous; 

 stigma small. Ripe fritit unknown. 



Penang : Curtis, No. 1537. 



A species known only by Mr. Curtis' specimens which have no 

 fruit. 



12. Shoeea KuNSTLERi, King, n. sp. A tree 60 to JOG feet high: 

 young branches slender, rusty-puberulous, their bark brown. Leaves 

 coriaceous, elliptic, abruptly and shortly acuminate, the base rounded 

 or slightly cuneate, both surfaces glabrous, the lower with a few stiff 

 white hairs on the midrib and nerves ; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, curved, 

 ascending, prominent on the lower surface ; length 4 to 5 in., breadth 2 

 to 24 in., petiole "5 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, 4 to 6 in. long, 

 l&x, few-flowered, scaly-puberulous. Floioers b in. long, sub-sessile, 

 4 or 5 together on the short branches of the panicles, secund, 

 bracteate : the bracts broadly ovate, puberulous. Sepals sub-equal, 



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