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obovate, the apex Bhortly acuminate, the edges entire in the lower half 

 bat with a few unequal scanty coarse sharp teeth in the upper half ; the 

 base slightly narrowed, sometimes oblique ; both surf aces quite glabrous, 

 shining and finely reticulate when dry ; length 3-6 in., breadth l'5-2*5 

 in.; petiolules unequal, the lateral "1 in. long or absent, the terminal 

 •35-*8 in. Panicle terminal, shorter than the leaf-petioles, with several 

 rusty stellate- tomentose bracts '75 in. long at its base, 2-branched ; the 

 branches narrow, sparsely covered with scurf3? pubescence ; the lateral 

 branchlets about "75 in. long, slender, each bearing at its apex a crowded 

 umbel of from 10-20 oblong flowers on pedicels "lo-'S in. long. Fruit 

 oblong, boldly 5-ribbed, crowned by the conical disc bearing 5 small 

 rounded stigmas at its corners, 6-celled. 

 Penang ; at Pulo Bcetong, 1950. 



I have seen only two specimQns (and they are both of the same gathering) of 

 this very distinct species. 



4. Trevesia, Vis. 



Shrubs or small trees, prickly or unarmed, glabrous or stellate- 

 hairy. Leaves palmifid or palmisect ; petioles often united by a wing 

 at their base ; stipules united within the petiole, or obsolete. Flowers 

 polygamous, large for the Order ; umbels panicled ; pedicels not jointed 

 under the flower ; bracts small or 0. Calyx-margin entire or toothed. 

 Petals 8-12, valvate, somewhat thick, often cohering as a cap in the 

 fertile flowers. Stamens equal in number to the petals. Ovary with as 

 many cells as the petals ; styles connate into a short column. Fruit 

 ovoid, large for the Order. Seeds compressed ; albumen uniform. 

 DiSTRiB. Species about 10 ; natives of Eastern India, Malaya and 

 Polynesia. 



Trkvesia palmata, Vis. in Mem. Acad. Torino, Ser. 2, IV, 262, with 

 fig. A small single-stemmed tree 10-25 feet high; young shoots ferru- 

 ginous-pubescent and very prickly. Leaves coriaceous, large ( 1 2-24 in. 

 in diam. ), rotund in general outline, deeply palmatifid ; or, in young 

 shoots, palmatisect, widely cordate at the base, the lobes acuminate, their 

 edges serrate or sometimes lobulate ; glabrous when adult or with a few 

 small rufous stellate hairs on the lower surface ; the lobules contracted 

 in the middle to a pseudo-petiolule (in var. cheirantha) ; petiole often 

 prickly, 6 to 20 in. long. Panicles 12-30 in. long, the branches spreading, 

 when young clothed with reddish-brown tomentum ; bracts oblong, 1 in. 

 long, usually deciduous; pedicels I-15 in. long. Flower-buds '12 in. 

 in diam. Fruit ovoid-rotund, the ribs not prominent, crowned by 

 the stout style, fleshy, '5 in. in diam. Seem. Rev. Hed 77 ; Kurz For. 

 Flora Burma, I, 539 ; Clarke in Flor. Br. Ind. II, 732 ; Boerlage in Ann. 



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