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flowers, '15 in. long, their pedicels '1 in. long. Calyx-tuhe campanu- 

 late ; the limb truncate, narrow. Petals 5, broadly elliptic, blunt, re- 

 flexed. Ftuit narrowly oblong, pointed, deeply 5-ridged, glabrous, 

 crowned by the shoi-t conical style-column, '2 in. long, glabrous. 



Pkhak; on Ulu Batang Padoug, at an elevation of about 4900 

 feet ; Wray 1509. 



A species near H. ellipticuyn but readily disfcingnished from that in the Herba- 

 rium by its dull broad coriaceous leaflets, more widely campanulate calyx-tube, 

 and larger fruit. 



4. Heptapleurum sub-racemosum, new species. A shrub 2-3 feet 

 high; young branches with thick corky glabrous bark, pale when dry. 

 Leaves trifoliol^te or sometimes 5-foliolate, the common petiole l*5-25 

 in. long, glabrous. Leaflets coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 

 caudate-acuminate, narrowed at the base, the edges entire and slightly 

 revolute ; both surfaces glabrous, distinctly and finely reticulate when 

 dry; length 2-25-4 in., breadth •75-1*1 in. ; petiolules unequal, •3-'4 in. 

 long, that of the terminal leaflet '8-1 '25 in. long, thickened at the apex. 

 Panicle solitary, terminal, very narrow, sub-racemose, 2-branched, only 

 about 3 inches long and about<'65 in. across ; the branclilets only •l-'2 

 in. long, each ending in an umbel of 3-5 oblong, green flowers "15 in. 

 long ; rim of calyx very narrow. Fruit oblong, '2 in. long, glabrous, 

 with 5 blunt ridges, pale green tipped with bluish, 5-celled. 



Perak ; King's Collector 8283. 



Readily recognised by its small caudate-acttminate narrow leaflets, much 

 and prominently reticulated when dry; and by its short narrow racemoid panicles. 



5. Heptapleurum Cephatotes, Clarke in Flor. Br. Ind. [I, 731. 

 A large tree. Leaves digitate, their petioles rather slender, 1 •5-3*5 in, 

 long, glaucous ; leaflets about 7, oblortg-elliptic, the apex abruptly and 

 shortly acuminate, the base rounded, the edges entire and slightly 

 recurved when dry ; upper surface shining, glabrous ; the lower diill, 

 glaucous, and bearing when young some quickly deciduous loose wooly 

 hairs. Panicle minutely tomentose, terminal, consisting of numerous 

 sub-erect branches 6-12 inches long, bearing shortly ped uncled globose 

 ebracteolate dense capitula. Fruit oblong, ribbed, 8-celled, covered 

 with stellate white tomentum and crowned by the broad cluster of 

 short styles ; disc large, spongy. H. capitatunif Seem. Rev. Hed. 15 

 (in part). 



Malacca ; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) 2700. Singapore ; Ridley 3973, 

 6409. Penang; Curtis SS7. Perak ; TFray 1542; Scortechini S9l, 



6. Heptapleurum ScouTECHiNir, new species. An epiphytic shrub, 

 the young branches stout. Leaves digitate ; the common petiole terete, 

 glabrous, stout, 25-3"5 feet long ; leaflets 8-10, very coriaceous, oblon^ 



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