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8. Heptapleurum Singalangense, Seem. Rev. Hed. 42. Scandent, 

 glabrous. Leaves digitate ; common petiole 12-15 in. long, stout ; leaflets 

 5, membranous, elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base slightly narrowed, 

 the edges with a few irregular remote teeth or entire ; both sur- 

 faces glabrous, faintly reticulate ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, curved, 

 spreading ; length 7-12 in., breadth 3"25-5'25 in., petiolules l*25-2'5 in., 

 thickened at the base. Panicle 12-18 in. long, covered with deciduous 

 rusty stellate pubescence, very narrow, (about 2 in. wide) ; the branches 

 numerous, about '5 in. long, each ending in an umbel of 5-10 oblong 

 obovoid pedicelled flowers '25 in. long, their pedicels •2-3 in. long. 

 Calyx-tube shortly campanulate, minutely scaly ; its limb narrow, truncate, 

 undulate. Petals 9, fleshy, narrow, slightly unequal, connate by their 

 edges. Stamens 9. Stigmas united into a notched fleshy ring, ovary 

 12-celled. Fruit unknown. Paratropia Singalense, Miq. in Ann. Mus. 

 Lugd. Bat. I, 23. Agalma redivivum, Seem. Rev. Hed. 25. 



Pekak ; Scorfechini 390 ; Curtis 3170. 



The specimens which I have seen are few. In foliage thev agree with the 

 specimen in Kew named Agalma redivivum, which however Seemann describes as 

 having 7— 8-m.erous flowers. In other respects they agree with Seemann's description 

 of that plant. They also agree with Miquel's full description of his Paratropia 

 Singalangense, except as to the length of the petiole wliich Miquel gives as only 4-6 

 inches, a measurement so much out of proportion with those he gives for the 

 petiolules, (l-2"5 in.) and leaflets, that I cannot help suspecting some clei'ical error. 



9. Heptaplecjrum latifoliolatdm, new species. A bush with stout 

 branches. Leaves digitate ; the common petiole stout, glabrous, some- 

 what compressed, 7-11 in. long ; leaflets thickly coriaceous, ovate- 

 rotund, shortly acuminate or blunt, the base rounded ; the edges entire, 

 slightly recurved when dry; both surfaces glabrous, the upper shining, 

 the lower dull and sub-glaucous ; main lateral nerves 7 or 8 pairs, 

 spreading, curving upwards, prominent on the lower surface, depressed 

 on the upper when dry ; length 3-5 in., breadth 1-75-3-5 in. ; petiolules 

 •8-1*5 in., rather stout. Panicles terminal, in pairs, 5-8 in. long, 

 glabrous ; the branches short, horizontal, each bearing at its apex an 

 umbel of 10-15 pedicelled flowers ; pedicels '3 in. long. Fruit broadly 

 ovoid, deeply 9-ridged, 9-celled, glabrous, crowned by the 9 very short 

 free styles, and '15 in. in diam., red when ripe. 



Perak ; on Gunong Babu at an elevation of about 5000 feet ; 

 Wray 3927. 



10. Heptapleurum subulatum, Seem. Rev. Hed. 42. Scandent, 

 glabrous. Leaves digitate ; the common petiole 2-6 in. long, slender, 

 glabrous, terete; leaflets coriaceous, oblong-elliptic or elliptic, shortly 

 acuminate, tapering to the base ; the edges entire, revolute when dry ; 

 both surfaces glabrous and reticulate but not prominently so, the upper 



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