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Leaves narrowly oblong, gradually nari'owed 

 to the acute apex. 



Fruit 175 to 225 in. long : stamens 10 ... 4. B. maximus. 

 Fruit 1"5 in. long ; leaves 4 to 6 in. long, 

 with 9 or 10 pairs of bold parallel 

 nerves ... ... ... 5. B. Heimii. 



Fruit -6 in. long : leaves 2-25 to 2-75 in. 

 long, with 7 or 8 pairs of slightly 

 prominent nerves ... ... 6. B. Wrayi. 



Leaves stellate-pubescent, scabrid ... ... 7. B.Hemsleyanns. 



1. Balanocarpus CuRTisii, King. A tree 20 to 30 feet high : young 

 branches slender, the bark dark-coloured, puberulous. Leaves mem- 

 branous, ovate-lanceolate, bluntly caudate-acuminate, the base slightly 

 cuneate : both surfaces glabrous, dull ; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, spi^ead- 

 ing, faint and scarcely more prominent than the secondary nerves ; 

 length 2 to 2"5 in., breadth "75 to 1 in., petiole "1 to '15 in. Panicles 

 axillary and terminal, shorter than the leaves, glabrescent, lax, each 

 with a few 3- to 5-flowered spreading branches. Flowers secund, short- 

 ly pedicelled, '15 in. long. Sepals distinct, sub-equal, thick, rotund- 

 ovate, very obtuse, puberulous outside, glabrous inside, the edges slightly 

 ciliate. Petals elliptic, obliquely shortly and bluntly acuminate, glabres- 

 cent inside, partly puberulous and partly glabrous outside. Stamens 

 15, in 3 rows, sub-equal ; the filaments shorter than the anthers, dilated: 

 anthers broadly elliptic, truncate, the connective produced into an 

 apical awn longer than the stamen. Ovary cylindric, truncate, glabrous, 

 the style short and stigma minute. Fruit smooth, globular, apiculate, 

 crowned by the sub-sessile discoid stigma, enveloped by, but not adherent 

 to, the slightly thickened sepals, "25 to "Sin. in diam. (calyx included). 



Penang: Curtis, No. 1406. Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 3171, 

 3294, 6543 ; Wray, No. 2860. 



2. Balanocarpus penangianus. King, n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet 

 high : young branches slender, dark-coloured, lenticellate, slightly 

 puberulous at the very tips. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate or 

 ovate-acuminate, often caudate-acuminate, the base slightly cuneate or 

 almost rounded, the edges slightly undulate, both surfaces glabrous : 

 main nerves 7 to 8 pairs, spreading and curving upwards, not promi- 

 nent on either surface ; length 1*75 to 4 in., breadth 8 to 1"6 in., petiole 

 •25 to '4 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, hoary-pubescent, many- 

 flowered ; the flower.=i secund, 7 to 9 on each lateral branchlet, pedicelled, 

 "15 to '2 in. long. Sepals sub-equal, broadly ovate, sub-acute, yellowish- 

 pulverulent, tomentose externally, glabrous internally. Petals oblong, 

 obtuse, twi.sted and with the apices reflexed in aestivation, spreading 



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