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Flowers '35 in. long, puberulous externally, on short pedicels bracteolate 

 at the base. Calyx pubernlous, campanulate, with short tube and 5 

 long narrowly linear-lanceolate spreading lobes. Corolla not much 

 exceeding the calyx, with a short tube and 5 imbricate oblong acute 

 lobes united only at the sericeous bases, minutely pubescent on the outer 

 surface, glaberulous on the inner. Anthers 5, linear, united into a tube 

 round the long cylindric style, the filaments free, dorsifixed. Ovary sunk 

 in the calyx tube and attached to it, 2-celled, the placentas infolded, 

 several seeded. Fruit un nown. 



Perak : King's Collector 8265. Only once collected. A very 

 distinct species. 



2. Stylocoetna adpressa, King n. sp. A shrub; young branches 

 thinner than a goose-quill, obtusely 4-angled, covered with short rusty 

 deciduous tomentum. Leaves thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-oblong, 

 often slightly oblanceolate, shortly and sharply acuminate, the base 

 much narrowed ; both surfaces dark olivaceous when dry, the upper 

 glabrous and minutely reticulate ; lower surface and especially the 

 midrib with short sparse stiff adpressed pale hairs ; main-nerves 6 to 10 

 pairs, curved, spreading, faint on the upper surface, distinct on the lower ; 

 the midrib stout, channelled above ; length 4 to 8 in. ; breadth "75 to 

 1*75 in. ; petioles *25 to "4 in. Stipules ovate, acute, '15 in. long, deci- 

 duous. Cymes solitary, terminal, about 1 in. long (including the short 

 peduncle), dichotomous, few-flowered ; the branches divergent, densely 

 tomentose. -FZower-pedicels short, bi-bracteolate at the base. Flower 

 about "6 in. long. Calyx urceolate '1 in. long, with 5 short acute teeth. 

 Corolla-tube "35 in. long, minutely pubescent without like the calyx, twice 

 as long as the oblong, blunt lobes of the limb. Anthers linear, subses- 

 sile. Fruit pisiform, the apex with the small scar of the calyx, glabrous ; 

 seeds two in each cell, many-angled. 



In all the provinces ; common. 



Var. papillulosa. Leaves 3*5 to 4 in. long, coriaceous, lower surface 

 with numerous minute dark-brown papillae, the pubescence rusty. 



SixVGAPORE: Ridley 3885, 4960. Johor: Ridley 2879. Pahang : 

 Ridley 1087. 



The only specimens of this which I have as yet seen are rather imperfect. It 

 is quite possible that it will have to be treated as a species when fuller material is 

 obtained. 



3. Sttlocortka !Maixgayj, King. A shrub ; young branches thin- 

 ner than a goose-quill, densely tawny or rusty-tomentose. Leaves thickly 

 membranous, elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, shortly caudate-acu- 

 minate, the base cuneate ; upper surface sparsely hispid-pubescent ; the 

 •lower softly pubescent; main-nerves £ or 9 pairs, spreading, curved, 



