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axillary, 4 mm. in diam., rufous-tomentose, of 3 or of 2? flowers 
only ; bracteoles ovate, acute or subacute, carinate, + — rusty- 
tomentose on outer surface, glabrous on inner. go flowers sessile, 
obpyriform in bud, 2 mm. long; calyx rufous-tomentose externally, 
glabrous internally, with deltoid sepals ; petals broadly flabelliform 
crenulate, glabrous, ‘5 mm. across the apex; disk smooth, entire; 
staminal column short, stout, glabrous; pistillode pubescent at the 
base, deeply trifid. flowers withcalyx of the 3 ; petals obovate, 
subentire, 1 mm. long and broad, glabrous; annulus of the disk 
membranous, dentate and later 5-lobed ; ovary subglobose, densely 
hirsute ; styles slender, free, bifid halfway down; stigmas subcla- 
vate. Capsule on a very short stout pedicel that is almost con- 
cealed by the perianth, 8 mm. in vertical, 9 mm. in transverse 
diam., at first rufous-tomentose, later glabrescent and reticulate. 
Seeds cordiform, 6 mm. long, 4°5 mm. broad, 3 mm. thick, with con- 
vex carinate dorsal and 2 obscurely defined ventro-lateral surfaces 
obtuse apex and cordately excavate base. 
Jabl. in Pflanzenreich, l.c. 28, C. Curtisi, Jabl. J.c. 22. 
Pmnane: K.C. 1348!, C. 3002!; Government Hill, C. 146!, 
1575!, 3048!; Waterfall, C. 1464!; Batu Ferengy, C. 3588!. Suin- 
GAPORE: Lobb ! 
The type sheets are Curtis 146, and Lobb’s sheet, both in Kew Herbarium. 
6. CLEISTANTHUS FLAVESCENS, Jabl. in Pflanzenreich, IV, 147; 
VIII, 19; (1915). A small tree, 5 m. high. Branchlets glabrous 
pale brown, 2—5 mm. thick ; young twigs, darker brown, 1 mm. thick, 
sparsely shortly puberulous or glabrescent; buds rusty-tomentose. 
Lamine membranous or thinly coriaceous, elliptic, 5—15 cm. long, 
2—6 em. broad, with finely acuminate apex and acute or cuneate 
base; upper surface yellowish-green, glabrous, subnitid, reticulate ; 
lower surface dull, yellowish-green, glabrous or with sparse, very 
minute, adpressed, hair-like scales on midrib and nerves and general 
surface ; nerves slender, 7—10, anastomosing near the margin, often 
with a minute triangular pit in the nerve-midrib axil ; cross-nervules 
distant, rather irregular and not very distinct from the general 
moderately close reticulation ; petiole slender, subterete, + — setu- 
losely puberulous, 4—8 mm. long, closely irregularly wrinkled ; 
stipules caducous, aculeate, a few mms. long, rusty-pubescent to 
glabrous. Flower-clusters axillary along the young twigs, small, 
of few flowers ¢ only or 2? only; bracteoles broadly ovate, with 
