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gliorter than tbe calyx-lobes, 3-fid at the apex; stamens 8; styles 4, 

 conical, rLidimentaiy. Female flower larger than the male and with the 

 calyx-tube elongated and containing the ovary ; lobes of the mouth 

 broadly ovate ; stamens 8 ; rudimentary styles 4, stout, as long as the 

 calyx-lobes ; stigmas sub-capitate. Fruit ellipsoid, glabrous, '75 in. long 

 and -4 in. in diam., glabrous, smooth ; the pericarp woody. 



PERAKi Scortechini 1807. Wraij 960 and 2100; King's Collector 

 5681, 8821. 



A species closely allied to the Bornean A. rliomhoidea, Baill. The latter species 

 has however leaves of tliiuner texture, and their main nerves are more pubescent 

 beneath while, instead of being deeply depressed on the upper surface, they are 

 scarcely vi&ible. The transverse veins are also finer and less visible than in the 

 leaves of this, vrhile the lower surface has numerous minute white scales ; the leaves 

 of this have no scales. The petals of A. rhomboidea are described by Baillon as 

 flabellate-incised. 



6. An[SOPHYLLEA CaRTisii, King n. spec. A tree 30-40 feet high 

 with drooping branches ; young twigs slender, deciduously and sparsely 

 adpressed rusty-pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, 

 slightly oblique especially towards the rather abruptly and obliquely 

 cuneate base, gradually tapering to the caudate-acuminate apex ; upper 

 surface glabrous, not reticulate ; the lower faintly reticulate, glabrous 

 except for a few adpressed hairs near the base ; main nerves 5, spring- 

 ino" from the apex of the petiole, the two outer faint and running close 

 to the edge, the three middle prominent on the lower surface but 

 obsolete on the upper ; length 2'5-3-25 in., breadth •8-1-25 in., petiole 

 •2 in. Male and female flowers on distinct adpressed-pubescent spikes 

 about "5 in long, each flower with a short blunt bracteole at its base. 

 Male flowers '15 in. long, sessile, clavate ; calyx-tube elongate, rusty 

 adpressed-pubescent externally, its mouth with 4 broadly triangular lobes ; 

 petals 4, as long as the calyx-lobes or longer, cut almost to the base into 

 filiform lobes ; stamens 8, with filaments of unequal length, those with 

 short filaments attached to the petals ; styles subulate, ovary abortive. 

 Female flowers '25 in. long, the calyx-tube longer than in the male and 

 ribbed ; lobes of the mouth reflexed. Petals as in the male but larger 

 and with more lobes ; stamens as in the male ; style as long as the 

 petals. Fruit unknown. 



Penang ; Curtis 746. 



A very distinct species, at once recognised by its comparatively large flowers 

 and deeply fimbriate petals ; allied to A. rhomboidea, Baill. and to A. Scortechinii, 

 King ; but well distinct from either. 



Order XLV. COMBRETACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, often climbers. Leaves alternate subopposite or 

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