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coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, sliortly acuminate, narrowed or rounded at 

 the base, sometimes oblique ; the edges remotely ci-enate, revolute when 

 dry ; both surfaces glabrous, the lower glaucous ; main nerves 8 or 9 

 pairs, faint, curving upwards ; length 4 5-7 in., breadth 2-25-2'75 in. ; 

 petiole •2-8 in., thick. Rucemes solitary, axillary, slii^htly longer than 

 the leaves, bearing rather distant glomeruli of 3 or 4 flowers each, the 

 j'achis densely and minutely tomentose. Flowers '3 .in. in diatn., the 

 pedicels about '1 in. long. Calyx-lube siiort, widely funnel-shaped ; 

 teeth 6, oblanceolate, obtuse, spreading, minutely tomentose externally. 

 Petals 6, broadly lanceolate, sub-acute, equal in length to the calyx- 

 teeth, villous on the inner surface. Stamens 2 in front of each petal ; 

 the filaments glabrous rising from a small bulb. Ovary hairy. Sfcjles 

 5, short, sub-erect. 



Pkrak ; King's Collector 4286, 7109. 



3. HoMALiUM PROPINQUDM, C. B. Clarke in Flor. Br. tnd. II, 597. 

 A tree 60-80 or even 120 feet in height; young branches pale brown 

 when dry, pubeiulous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 

 obtuse, or shortly acuminate, more or less narrowed and sometimes 

 slightly oblique at the base, the edges undulate- or undulate-crenate ; 

 both surfaces glabrous, the midrib alone sometimes puberulous beneath ; 

 main nerves 9-11 pairs, curved, spreading, prominent beneath when dry ; 

 length 4-7 in., breadth 2-25-3-5 in.; petiole •25--35 in. Racemes 4-12 

 in. long, clustered and sometimes panicled at the apices of the branches, 

 covered with soft pale tomentum. Flowers 2 in, in diam., 6 or 7-fid, in 

 close clusters and on pedicels '15 in. long. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped; 

 its segments longer than the petals, subspathulate. Stamens twice as 

 many as the petals, all bearing anthers. Fruit unknown. H. longifolium, 

 (i«.par^) Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. IV, 35. Blackivellia propinqua, 

 Wall. Cat. 4898. B. spiralis, Wall. Cat. 4897A. 



Penang; Porter, Ct*r^i5 1592. Phrak; King's Collector 3748,3935, 

 4883, 7936. Malacca ; Griffith ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. ) 664. 



4. HoMALiUM Griffithianum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengl. XL, 

 Pt. II, (for 1877), 57. A tree 30-40 feet high, the young parts softly 

 tawny-pubescent. Leaves membranous, obovate-oblong, shortly and 

 bluntly apiculate, slightly narrowed to the rounded or minutely sub- 

 cordate base, the edges subentire to coarsely crenate ; both surfaces 

 sparsely pubescent, tomentose or densely pubescent on the midrib 

 and 7-9 pairs of spreading little curved not prominent main nerves • 

 length 2-75-5 in., breadth 1*65-2 5 in. ; petiole •2-4 in., pubescent. 

 Racemes solitary, one and a half times as long as the leaves, softly 

 tawny- tomentose ; the glomeruli few-flowered, not crowded together. 

 Floivers '35 in. in diam., densely villous in all parts. Calyx-tube conical 



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