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1*5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib slender, prominent ; main-nerves 15 to 20 

 pairs, starting at an angle of about 60° to tbe midrib and curving upwards 

 to meet in a faint intramarginal looped nerve ; secondary nerves and 

 reticulations prominent ; petiole slender, 1 to 1*5 in. long, bordered above 

 in its upper part by the decurrent margins of the blade, base enlarged, 

 sometimes twisted. Floioers solitary or fascicled 2 to 3 together in the 

 •axils of the leaves, or above the scars of fallen leaves ; pedicels thick, 

 •3 to '4 in. long, usually recurved, densely rusty- or golden-pubescent like 

 the calyx-lobes and fruit ; buds ovoid-orbicular about "4 in. long. Calyx- 

 lobes 4, -4 in. long; outer valvate, ovate-orbicular ; inner imbricate, con- 

 cave, somewhat emarginate, thin and ciliate on the edges. Corolla 

 tubular-campanulate ; tube about -125 in. long, glabrous on both sides ; 

 lobes 16, in 2 rows, very much imbricate, shortly spathulate, rounded at 

 top, fimbriate on the margins, shortly pubescent within, 3-nerved. 

 Stamens about 32, in 2 rows, mixed with long unicellular brown hairs ; 

 filaments thick, about 0*5 in. long ; anthers oblong, opening by marginal 

 slits, often twisted half round ; connective conspicuous, produced in a 

 sharp mucro. Ovary rounded, villous ; style subulate, "5 to ■? in. long ; 

 cells about 8. Fruit an ovoid densely pubescent brown berry, "8 to 1 in. 

 long, 1-2-seeded, surmounted by the persistent style. Seed ovoid, 

 obliquely pointed below, rounded above, "7 in. long, -4 in. in diam., 

 sometimes flattened on one side ; testa thin, crustaceous, chestnut- 

 brown, shining ; hilum very large, obovate ; albumen none ; cotyledons 

 thick, -5 in. long, ovate ; radicle small, pointed. 



Peeak : on Larut peak, at 500 to 2,600 feet, King's Collector, 3241, 

 3547, 3964, 6410 ; Wray 2643, 3201 ; Curtis 3694 ; Bidley 5536. 



4. Bassia penicillata, King & Gamble, n. sp. A large tree, reach- 

 ing 60 feet in height with a girth of 4 feet ; ultimate branchlets and 

 innovations densely ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves coriaceous ; oblong 

 or somewhat obovate-oblong, shortly and abruptly acute at apex, 

 unequally rounded at base ; glabrous above, thickly golden-silky- 

 pubescent beneath when young, afterwards glabrate ; margins recurved ; 

 6 to 10 in. long, 2-5 to 3'5 in. broad; midrib thick, prominent, impressed 

 •and keeled above; main-nerves 24 to 28 pairs, conspicuous, parallel, 

 *3 to -5 in. apart in large leaves, starting at about 80° with the midrib, 

 ■curved only near the margin to meet in an inconspicuous looped 

 intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves many in large leaves ; reticula- 

 iiions oblique, not prominent ; petiole 1"2 to 1"5 in. long, thickened below. 

 Floioers fascicled, about 1 to 4 together in the axils of the leaves, on very 

 short rusty-pubescent tubercles ; pedicels 1 to 1*2 in. long, slender, 

 pubescent ; buds conical. Calyx-lobes 4, sometimes 5, -4 in. long ; 

 outer pair ovate-acuminate, densely rusty-pubescent, thick ; inner pair, 



