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slender, at length '6 in long, grey-puberulous, with a caducous subulate 

 bracteole about the middle ; buds oblong '15 in long. Calyx-tuhe very 

 short, lobes 4, imbricate, reflexed in flower, sparsely pubescent externally, 

 glabrous within. Petals 0. Stamens 10, filaments glabrous, free, alter- 

 nately long and short, anthers broadly oblong, versatile. Ovary 

 stipitate densely grey-downy, 1- or 2-ovuled, stalk glabrous longev than 

 calyx-tube, style glabrous incurved. Pod oblong, obliquely rounded at 

 base, subequally rounded and apiculate at tip, rusty-puberulons, rather 

 distinctly reticulate, 3 in. long, 2 in. wide, "5 in. thick, valves very firmly 

 coriaceous. Seed 1, oblong, 1-25 in. long, 1-2 in. wide, '35 in. thick. 

 Touchiroa Curtisii Prain MSS. 



Penang ; Govt. Hill, 1200 feet elev., Curtis 3007 ! Malacca ; Bukit 

 Sadanan, Berry 1164 ! Perak ; Larut, Kunstler 7467 ! Thaiping, Kunstler 

 8514 ! Kinta, Kunstler 4753 ! 



Var. ? WalHchii Prain ; leaf-rachis and leaflets beneath densely 

 softly velvety ; leaflets acute, not cuspidate or caudate at the tip. 

 Legnminosa Wall. Cat. 5983. Ignota Wall. Cat. 8089. Touchiroa 

 WalUchii Prain MSS. 



Penang; Porter (Wall. Cat 5983) ! Wallich (Cat. 8089) ! 

 This fine tree is, according to Mr. Derry, known in Malacca as ' Kumpas 

 ruman.' Thongh very neaily related to C. glauca it seems to be quite distinct and is 

 easily separated by its longer petiolules ; pubescent leaf-racliis, rachis of inflores- 

 cence and young leafy slioots ; also by its rather smaller leaflets and pods. It is 

 likewise very closely isolated to G. speciosa but it has longer pedicels and a less 

 dense inflorescence than that species, wliich moreover has the leaflets quite glabrous. 

 The plant here tentatively referred to the species as var, ? Wallichii occurs 

 twice in the Wallichian Herbarium, on both occasions without flowers or fruits. It 

 has never been obtained again and it is just possible that when it is re-discovered 

 it will prove a distinct species, G. TFallichii. 



4. Crodia glauca Prain. A tree 50-70 feet high, with spreading 

 glabrous branches ; stem 1'5— 2'5 feet in diam. Leaves odd- (or some- 

 times even- ) pinnate, rachis 2—25 in. long, petiole articulate on an 

 auricled node with an interpetiolar 2-lobed stipule, leaflets 7-8, with 

 petiolules '15 in. long, quite glabrous as is the rachis, alternate or 

 occasionally subopposite, oblanceolate-oblong, base slightl}^ obliquely 

 rounded, apex rounded and at length abruptly obtusely cuspidate, 25-4 

 in. long, 1"25-1*75 in. wide, thinly papery, dark-green and quite glabrous 

 above, very glaucous glabrous on the nerves elsewhere finely adpiessed- 

 puberulous beneath, lateral nerves ascending, prominently looped one- 

 third their length within the margin, secondary venation indistinct. 

 Flowers in dense narrow racemes at the basey of new leafy shoots, 3-5 

 in. long, with angular glabrous rachis. Calyx not seen. Pod oblong 

 tapering subequally at base to a stipe "lb in, long, and at apex to a 



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