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crowned by the long confuent column of styles, glabrous, 5-celled, *15 

 in. in diam. 



Perak ; on Gunong Brumber Pahang, at an elevation of about 7000 

 feet, Wray 1585. 



A very distinct species, at once distinguishable by its racemose panicles, and 

 leaflets glaucons on the lower surface and with serrate edges. 



19. • Heptapleurum biternatum, Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. 

 II, 735. A shrub several feet high ; the young shoots and. the under 

 surfaces of the leaves deciduously stellate-pubescent. Leaves digitately 

 decompound or twice pinnate, with ternate leaflets at each node of the 

 rachis ; leaflets coriaceous, narrowly-oblong, acuminate, entire, the 

 base slightly narrowed and rounded ; length 2-3*5 in., breadth *5— *75 in., 

 .petiolules *1 in. long or less, that of the terminal leaflet *4 in. ; both 

 surfaces minutely reticulate and shining, the upper glabrous, the lower 

 with deciduous stellate pubescence. Panicle 8 in. long, but only about 

 1*5 in. across ; the branches little-divided, stellate-hairy ; bracts decidu- 

 ous, pedicels *2 in. long. 



Malacca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 684. 

 Known only by Main gay's fragmentary specimens. 



20. Heptapleurum heterophyllum, Seem. Rev. Hed. 40. A bush 

 •or small tree 8-12 feet high. Lower leaves large, ternately decompound, 

 24 in. across ; common petiole 32-24 in. long ; the upper leaves smaller 

 and only twice digitate ; the leaflets in all 3 to 5 on each petiolnle, thinly 

 coriaceous, variable in shape, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic or broadly- 

 ovate, shortly acuminate, narrowed or rounded at the base ; the edges 

 entire, rarely with 1 or 2 teeth near the apex ; both surfaces minutely 

 reticulate and glabrous, the lower minutely dotted ; length 2*5-7 or 

 .even 9 in., breadth 1-2*25 in. ; petiolules of the lower leaflets *l-*25 in., 

 that of the terminal twice as long. Panicles with deciduous pale stellate 

 pubescence, solitary or several together* 10-15 in. long, and only 1*5-2 

 in. across ; the branches horizontal, slender, each ending in an umbel 

 of flowers on slender pedicels, the flowers bearing fertile pistils smaller 

 than those with fertile stamens. Fruit narrowly oblong, boldly 5-ribbed', 

 glabrous, 5-celled, nearly *25 in. long, claret-coloured when ripe. 

 -Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 73J. lledera heterophylla, Wall. 

 .Cat. 4919 ; G. Don. Gen. Syst. Ill, 394. Paratropia heterophylla, Presl 

 Epimel. Bot. 250 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. T, 761. 



Penang ; Wallich, Curtis 241, 2301 and possibly 1950. Perak'; 

 Scortechini 145, 664; King's Collector 718, 2688, 8640, 8769. 



21. Heptapleurum Curtisii, new species. A large shrub. Lower 

 leaves bipinnate, the upper trifoliolate ; common petioles of both about 

 8 in. long ; leaflets thinly coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, sometimes slightly 



