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or oblong-elliptic, the apex blunt or sbortly apiculate, the base rounded, 

 the edges entire and recurved when dry ; both surfaces quite glabrous, 

 not reticulate ; main nerves 6-9 pairs, slightly prominent on the lower 

 surface; length 9-13 in., breadth 4-6 in. ; petiolules unequal, 2*5-5 in. 

 long. Panicle terminal, dividing into several narrow raceme-like 

 branches, 10-20 inches long, covered with pale scurfy tomentum ; the 

 branch lets 40 or 50 in number and '35 to '75 in.' long, each with a 

 broadly ovate convolute wooly bract at its base, and at its apex a dense 

 globular umbel of sub-globular flowers '1 in. in diam. and borne on 

 pedicels '05 in. long. Calyx truncate, tapering to the base. Petals 6 or 7, 

 narrowly lanceolate. Stigmas free, ovary 5-celled. Fruit unknown. 



Perak ; Scortechini 2008. 



Collected only by the late Father Scortechini, whose specimens unfortunately 

 are scanty and rather fragmentary. A very distinct species, in general appearance 

 resembling H. Cephototes, Clarke and H. rigidum, Seem. The leaflets of the 

 latter have however twice as many main lateral nerves, although their length 

 is not greater, 



7. Heptapleurum tomentosum, Hassk. in Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. 

 (1844), p. 165. 'A half-scandent shrub, 6-8 in. high ; the young branches 

 stout, deciduously stellate-pubescent, the older glabrous. Leaves digitate ; 

 the common petiole 9-12 in. long, densely covered with I'usty stellate 

 tomentum, the intra-petiolar stipules about '75 in. long. Leaflets 5-7, 

 coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, caudate-acuminate, slightly narrowed to the 

 base, the edges entire and slightly revolute ; the upper surface boldly 

 bullate and finely reticulate, quite glabrous, pale olivaceous when dry ; 

 the lower pale brown, more or less closely covered with pale brown 

 stellate hairs ; length 8-10 in., breadth 2"75-3*5 in. ; petiolules unequal, 

 l*5-2"5 in. long, tomentose. Panicles usually two together, terminal, 

 4-5 in. long, racemose ; the lateral branches about 12, short, "2-4 in. long, 

 each bearing a sub-globular umbel of 8-10, ovoid, blunt, glabrous flowers 

 •15 in. long; their pedicels "1 in. long, pubescent. Calyx-tuhe funnel- 

 shaped, the rim narrow. Petals 5, white, glabrous, calyptrate. Stamens 

 longer than the petals. Styles 5, conjoined, papilliform, their apices 

 free. J?^na*^ '2 in. long, narrowly oblong, 5-ridged, 5-celled. SciadopliyUum 

 tomentosum, Blume Bijdr. 877; DC. Prod. IV, 260. Paratropia 

 tomentosa, Miq. in Bonplandia for 1856, p. 138 ; Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 

 753 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 23. 



Perak; Scortechini, Wray 2202, 3152; King's Collector 2066, 2216, 

 2569,7253, 8733. Selangor; Curtis 2341. Distrib. Sumatra; Forbes, 

 2611. 



I have seen no authentically-named specimen of this from the Leiden Herba- 

 rium, but the Perak plant agrees so completely with Miquel's description that I 

 have no doubt of the correctness of my identificatiou, 



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