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sepals; petals 1 mm. long and broad, ovate or obovate, sublobulate 
or subentire; disk saucer-shaped ; staminal column short ; pistil- 
lodecolumnar. @ flowers sessile, subconically ovoid in bud, 3 mm. 
long ; calyx divided less than halfway down, lobes narrowly deltoid ; 
petals obovate, 1:5 mm. long, entire or with denticulate apex: an- 
nulus of the disk crenulately margined ; ovary ovoid; styles short, 
bifid to the base; stigmas scarcely thickened. Fruit globose, 5—6 
mm. in diam. smooth; pyrenes subhemispherical, with flat ventral 
and convex carinate dorsal surface, 5 mm. broad, 3 mm. thick. 
Mull. Arg. 495: Hook. f. 274; J. J. Smith 324; Gehrm. in Bot. 
Jahrbuch. XLI, Beibl. No. 95, 33; Jabl. in Pflanzenreich, l.c. 61.— 
B. Curtisii Hook. f. 273; B. Kurzii Hook.f. 273; B. pedicellata Rid- 
ley in Journ. Roy. Asiat. Soc. Straits Branch, No. 59, 167. 
Preruis: Bukit Lagi, R. 14889! 
Kepan: Langkawi, C. 3688 !, 8326!. Prnanca: Batu Ferengy, 
C.1736!; Tulloh Bahang, C. 97!, 1500! 
Distris.: Malayan Archipelago, Australia. 
In the Flora of British India, Hooker places this species amongst the doubt- 
ful and excluded ones, and gives a brief and not very accurate description of it. 
There are two sheets of the Timor plant in Kew Herbarium collected by Riedlé, 
on whose specimens Decaisne based his deseription of B. ovata. On one of the 
sheets have also been fixed indiscriminately a fragment and separate leaves of 
Wallich’s No. 7888 ‘‘ Cluytia from Burma,” which is B. burmanica Hook. f. 
The nervation Hooker mentions under his description of B. ovata is unfortun- 
ately the nervation of B. burmanica. The real B. ovata in Kew Herbarium has 
only 8—12 nerves. The specimen referred to by Hooker as B. ovata Dene, pro- 
cured by Kurz from the Buitenzorg Garden is merely a specimen so named by 
Kurz. It is certainly not B. ovata Dene., but I should say B. minutiflora Hook 
f. Icannot distinguish B. Curtisii Hook. f. from B. ovata Dene. The material of 
B. Curtisti consists only of a single sheet in flower only, collected by Curtis at 
Tulloh Bahang, and could seem to be merely a male specimen of B. ovata Dene., 
Ridley’s No. 8326, collected by Curtis at Langkawi has been referred by 
Williams (Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1905, 31) to B. Kurzit Hook. f. It appears to me 
to be exactly like the cotype sheets of B. ovata Dene., in Kew Herbarium. B, 
Kurzti Hook. f., seems to me in any case merely a form of B. ovata Dene., but 
the material of it is very scanty. Gehrmann refers B. Curtisii Hook. f. to 
B. Grifithit Hook. f., which it does not at all resemble. 
4. Bripewra pusruLata, Hook. f. 271. A tree with moderate- 
ly sized leaves and minute flowers in dense subglobose axillary clus- 
ters. Twigs stout, angled or subterete, 2—4 mm. thick, postulately 
lenticellate, sparsely shortly setulosely rusty-pubescent or glabres- 
cent; internodes -3—3 cm. long. Lamine coriaceous, broadly 
