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This much resembles a leaf specimen issued by Koorders and Valeton 

 (No. 914) from Herb. Bnitenzorg as M. trichotoma, Bl. I have not seen Blume's type 

 of this species. But in his Bijdragen he describes its flowers as tetramerous. A 

 Sumatra specimen collected by Beccari (P.S. 956) which has ripe fruit but no 

 flowers probably belong to this. These fruits are narrowly oblong, tapering to 

 each end, smooth, slightly over an inch in length and about '35 in. in diam. (when 

 dry). M. Scortechinii much resembles M . bracteata, Clarke ; but differs in having 

 bold acute calyx-teeth, and only one kind of bracts on the inflorescence. 



3. Mastisia gracilis, King n. sp. A small tree ; young branches 

 slender, angled, smooth, yellowish. Leaves thinly coriaceous, lanceolate, 

 tapering much to the base and still more to the much acuminate apex ; 

 both surfaces pale olivaceous-green -when dry, glabrous ; the upper 

 shining, the lower somewhat dull ; main-nerves 8 to 14 pairs, ascend- 

 ing, very little curved, faint on both surfaces; length 225 to 4'5 in.; 

 breadth "8 to 1*5 in. ; petioles varying from '2 to *25 in. Cymes in 

 threes, terminal, about a third or a fourth the length of the leaves, 

 on short angled peduncles, the branches short and crowded at their 

 apices, many-flowered, with a whorl of nrinute broad bracts at the base 

 of flower pedicels. Flowers about "1 in. long, their pedicels about as 

 long, ovoid. Calyx campanulate ; the tube puberulous, slightly fur- 

 rowed ; the mouth wavy, indistinctly 5-toothed. Petals 5, oblong-ovate, 

 adherent by their edges, concave, leathery. Stamens 5 ; anthers oblong, 

 bifid : filaments short. Disc small. Style short, conical : stigma con- 

 cave. Fruit unknown. 



Peeak : at an elevation of about 5,000 feet ; Wray 1528. 



4. Mastixia Maingayi, Clarke in Hook. fil. FL Br. Ind. II, 746. 

 A tall tree ; young branches, petioles, under surfaces of leaves, branches 

 and bracts of the inflorescence and the outer surfaces of the calyx 

 and petals densely and softly rusty-tomentose. Leaves opposite, coria- 

 ceous, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, the apex shortly and abruptly acumi- 

 nate, the base cuneate; upper surface glabrous, greenish when dry, 

 the midrib and nerves impressed ; the tomentum on the lower surface 

 pale brown ; main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, ascending, curved, very pro- 

 minent on the lower surface and connecting nerves transverse ; length 

 4 to 6 in. ; breadth 1-5 to 3 in. ; petioles unequal, '75 to 1 in. Cymes 

 branched, on peduncles 1*5 to 2 in. long, terminal, longer than the 

 leaves ; the bracts at the bases of the branches small, oblong. Flowers 

 numerous, *15 in. long. Calyx campanulate, deeply 4-lobed ; the lobes 

 broadly ovate, obtuse. Petals 4, similar in shape to the sepals but 

 smaller, concave, adnate by their edges. Stamens 4, inserted on a 

 thick fleshy cushion-like circular disc by short filaments ; anthers short, 

 broadly ovate, cordate, introrse. Ovary one-celled, crowned by the 

 fleshy disc. Fruit ellipsaid, not compressed, attenuate towards the 

 apex, smooth, 1*2 in. long and *6 in. in diam. 



