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narrowed to tlie base, 7-nervecI, 2*75 in. long, and '45 in. broad ; the 

 two inner of the same shape, but few-nei'ved, only 1'5 in. long, and '25 

 in. broad. 



Penang: Curtis, No. 199. 



A species known only by Mr. Curtis' solitary specimen. The 

 connectives of the inner anthers are ciliate, somewhat in the fashion 

 of S- ciliata, King ; but the leaves of that species are very different. 



18. SiiOEBA STELLATA, Dyer in Hook, fil, Fl. Br. Ind. I, 304. A 

 tree 100 to 150 feet high ; young branches slender, at first stellate- 

 puberulous, but speedily glabrous, with bark dark-coloured and sparse- 

 ly lenticellate. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, the base 

 rounded: upper surfaces glabrous, the lower very minutely lepidote on 

 the reticulations ; main nerves 8 to 11 pairs, ratlier straight, oblique, 

 prominent on the lower surface ; length 4 to 5'5 in., breadth 1'75 to 

 2'25 in., petiole "7 to "9 in. Panicles axillary or terminal, crowded at 

 the extremities of the branches, many-flowered, 4 to 6 in. long : minute- 

 ly stellate-pubescent. Floivers '25 in. in diam. Cali/x minutely greyish- 

 tomentose, the segments ovate-oblong, sub-acute, valvate, erect. Petals 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, pubescent outside, spreading. Stavieiis 15, the 

 filaments short, broad ; the anthers linear-elongate, shortly bi-mucronate, 

 the connective also shortly mucronate. Ovary ovate-globular, grooved, 

 very tomentose ; the style short ; the stigma ovoid, small. JSijJe fruit 

 ovoid, apicnlate, tomentose, "5 in. long ; sepals all enlarged, sub- 

 equal, membranous, linear-oblong, sub-acute, much narrowed at the 

 base, quite free from the fruit, 5-ribbed, reticulate, 4-5 in. long, and 

 about '6 in. broad. ParasJiorea stellata, Kurz, Jouvn. As. Soc, Bengal, 

 for 1870, pt. 2, p. 66. For. Flora Burm., I, 117; Pierre Flore Forest. 

 Coch-Chine, t. 224. 



Perak: King's Collector, No. 7505. Distrib. Burmah. 



None of the Perak specimens are in fruit ; but in leaves and flowers 

 they agree absolutely with Kurz's Burmese specimens. The calyx in 

 all is quite valvate, and it was on this character chiefly that Kurz based 

 the genus Parashorea. 



19. Shore A Maranti, Burck in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, YI. 

 217. A small tree : young bi-anchcs dark-coloured, stellate-puberulous. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, more or less broadly cUij^tic or elliptic-oblong, 

 shortly abruptly and bluntly acuminate ; the base broad, rounded, or 

 almost truncate ; upper surface glabrous, the midi'ib and nerves minu- 

 tely tomentose or pubescent when young ; lower surface more or less 

 sparsely minutely stellate-puberulous, the sides of the midrib, especi- 

 ally at the axils of the main nerves, glandular and densely covered with 

 masses of brown pale-edged scales : main nerves 12 to IG pairs, oblique, 



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