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large, 3—5 mm. long, lanceolate-aculeate, + — hirsute and carinate on 
outer surface, glabrous on inner. ¢& flowers ovoid, 4—5 mm. long; 
ealyx hirsute externally, glabrous internally, with deltoid or sub- 
lanceolate sepals; petals rhombic, 1 mm. long and broad, sub- 
crenulate, glabrous or with a few bristles externally in bud; disk 
Jining calyx cup; pistillode subconically columnar, bluntly trifid, 
glabrous, minutely papillose. 9 flowers ovoid, 6 mm. long; calyx 
hirsute externally, glabrous internally, sepals lanceolate-acuminate 
or almost aculeate; petals 15 mm. long, obovate, with truncate 
subcrenulate apical margin and a few bristles on outer surface ; 
annulus of thedisk first dentate, later obscurely lobed; ovary 
globosely ovoid, densely hirsute; styles united below, slender terete, 
glabrous, shortly bifid ; stigmas slightly thickened. Capsule sessile, 
7 mm. in vertical, 8 mm. in transverse diam., adpressedly hirsute. 
Seedsnot seen. Jabl in Pflanzenreich, |.c. 24. C. trichocarpa Ridley 
in Journ. Roy. Asiat. Soc. Straits Br. No. 59, 167 and No. §1, 58. 
SetuL: R.14886!. Parris: #.14885!. Kepaw: Langkawi, C. 
2795!, 8306!; Bukit Penang, &. 14884!; Rawei Island, R. 15730!; 
locality illegible, R. 15731!; Burau Bay, #. 15793!. Punane. 
Penang Hill, R. 10209!. Prrax: Trong, K.C. 1389! 
The type sheet is Curtis 2795 in Kew Herbarium. 
21. CxuErstantaus MatneaAyil, Hook.f., 280. Branchlets 2—3 
mm. thick, pale to dark brown, + — rusty-pubescent ; young lateral 
twigs 1 mm. thick, short, densely rusty-tomentose ; internodes 
*5—lem. long. Lamine coriaceous, oblong-ovate or oblong-obovate, 
4-5—12 cm. long, 2—5cm. broad, with shortly caudately acuminate 
apex and rounded oralmost subcordate base ; upper surface glabrous 
subnitid, olivaceous, with rather obscure midrib nerves and reticula- 
tion; lower surface in young leaves densely rusty-tomentose, in 
older leaves glaucous or light dull brown, sparsely adpressedly 
pubescent, with prominent midrib, nerves and reticulation; nerves 
6—8; cross-nervules irregular; petiole 3 mm. long, closely wrinkled, 
+ — rusty-pubescent; stipules persistent, acicular, 4 mm. long, 
+ — rusty-pubescent. Flower-clusters rusty-tomentose, of compara- 
tively few sessile flowers 3 or 2? only; bracteoles broadly ovate, 
slenderly caudately acuminate, rusty-tomentose on outer, glabrous 
on inner surface. ¢ flowers elongate ovoid, 3—5 mm. long; calyx 
adpressedly hirsute ; sepals lanceolate with acute, acuminate or 
aculeate, finally recurved apex ; petals shortly clawed, 1 mm. long, 
subquadrate or broadly spathulate with subcrenulate apex, sparsely 
