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The flower of this is excellently fignrecl by Blame in his Mus. Bot. as quoted 

 . above. Flowers however of a slightly different shape are found in some specimens. 

 In these the calyx-tube is funnel-shaped and less cylindi'ic, and the petals are more 

 spreading. These are associated usually with larger leaves, more broadly elliptic 

 in shape ; and at one time I was of opinion that they might belong to a different 

 species. But the examination of nearly a hundred specimens of the two forms as 

 collected in Perak has convinced that they are not specifically separable. Blume 

 describes the plant as a shrub, but in Perak it is always a small tree. Miqnel's 

 Homulium ohovale from Sumatra (Flor. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 334) comes very near 

 this, and perhaps is not distinct. 



6. HoMALiUM UNDDLATUM, n. spec. King. A tree 40-60 feet high ; 

 young branches slender, pale-brown, minutely lenticellate. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, elb'ptic, shortly and bluntly acuminate, slightly 

 narrowed and sometimes unequal at the base, the edges undulate- 

 crenate ; both surfaces glabrous and minutely reticulate when dry, the 

 upper shining, the lower dull; length 3-4 in., breadth 1-75-2 in., petiole 

 •2-'25 in. Inflorescence consisting of a terminal panicle twice as long 

 as the leaves and of a few solitary racemes from the upper leaf-axils, 

 many-flowered, the rachises covered by minute rather sparse pale 

 toraentum. Flowers '6 or '7 in. in diam., lax ; their pedicels slender, 

 tomentose, '4 in. long. Cahjx-tiihe widely funnel-shaped, very slightly 

 ridged, minutely tomentose; teeth 5, lanceolate, tomentose on both 

 surfaces like the tube. Petals 5, much longer than tbe sepals, obovoid, 

 blunt, clawed at the base, reticulate, tomentose. Stamens shorter than 

 the sepals and much shorter than the petals, 4 in front of each petal, 

 glabrous. Ovary hairy, crowned by 3 narrowly conical spreading hairy 

 styles. Fruit unknown. 



Perak ; King's Collector 7064, 8184. 



7. HoMALiUM CtRAndiflorum, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. IV, 37. 

 A tree 30-40 feet high ; young branches rather stout, glabrous. Leaves 

 coriaceous, elliptic to oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, narrowed near 

 the petiole, the edges revolute and obscurely crenulate ; both surfaces 

 minutely reticulate when dry, 'and the upper very shining, the lower 

 somewhat duller; main nerves 9-12 pairs, ascending, only slightly 

 curved; length 3-5-6-5 in., breadth l'75-3-25 in.; petiole '2-3 in., 

 stout, hiflorescence consisting of terminal few-branched panicles and 

 of solitary axillary racemes with tomentose rachises. Floioers numerous 

 but not crowded, solitary, not in glomeruli, -75 in. in diam. ; the pedicels 

 •2 in. long, tomentose. Cahjx-tuhe short, hemispheric ; teeth 7-9, spathu- 

 late-oblong, spreading, enlarged often flowering. Petals lanceolate, 

 shorter than the calyx-teeth; the glands alternating with the petals, 

 large. Stamens 7-12 opposite each petal ; the filaments subulate, sparsely 

 pilose. Ouary fi-ee or nearly so, 6-7-ridged, tomentose, conical ; styles 



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