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fi1. Fl. Br. Ind. ITI. 127 : Wall. Oat. 6217. Bohea WallicMana, Korth 



in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 211.— Rumph. Herb. Amb. III. 216 t. 140. 



In all the provinces ; common ; — Distrib. Mnlay Archipelago. 



Near T. JamfeoseWa, but with more hairy leaves, more numerons main-nerves and 

 hairier inflorescence. The female flowers are in small cymes instead of being 

 solitary as in that species. 



4. TiMONius LAXus, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 20 to 30 feet 

 high; young branches thicker than a crow-quill, covered with coarse 

 short rusty-deciduous hairs, the leaf-cicatrices bold. Leaves thickly 

 membranous, narrowly elliptic-obovate, shortly acuminate, the base 

 cuneate : upper surface dark-brown when dry, glabrous ; the lower 

 paler, minutely rusty-pubescent especially on the nerves and stout 

 midrib; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, curved upwards, bold on the lower 

 surface, slightly depressed on the upper ; length 3*5 to 5 in. ; breadth 

 1*5 to 2*25 in. : petioles '1 to '15 in.; stipules about '35 in. long, tri- 

 angular with long apices, the midrib rusty-pubescent. Male cymes on 

 slender pubescent peduncles 1 to 2 in. long, with 2 diverging 1- to 2- 

 flowered branches and a sessile flower at the fork. Flowers 3*5 in. long, 

 those on the branches on pedicels '3 in. long. Calyx cupular, subentire, 

 less than '1 in. long. Corolla thickly coriaceous, outside with dense 

 yellowish -brown silky tomentum, inside nearly glabrous, the tube 

 cylindric, the mouth with 4 broad blunt lobes one- third of the length of 

 the tube. Female flowers and fruit unknown. 



Perak : King's Collector 10609. 



This has been collected only once and its female flowers and frnit are unknown. 

 It appears to be near T. Janibosella but differs in its hairy leaves and lax, long- 

 peduncled male cymes, 



5. TiMONius MALACCENSis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small tree ? 

 Young branches slender, obtusely 4-angled, clothed in dense pale minute 

 tomentum. Leaves membranous, broadly oblanceolate or elliptic, 

 bluntly and shortly acuminate, narrowed to the base; upper surface 

 glabrous, the midrib alone minutely rufous, pnberulous when young 

 pale-brown when dry ; the lower paler, reticulate, with sparse slender 

 pale hairs, the midrib and main-nerves cinereous-tomentose ; main- 

 nerves 5 or 6 pairs, little curved, ascending ; length 3*5 to 4*5 in., 

 breadth 1*5 to 1*75 in. ; petioles "15 to '2 in. ; stipules shortly cupular 

 the mouth with several unequal filiform processes, two being very long. 

 Cymes 2 or 3 in tlie uppermost leaf-axils, about 6-flowered, one quarter 

 of the length of the leaves, tomentose ; their peduncles '35 to '6 in. long. 

 Flowers densely pubescent outside, their pedicels 'OS in. long. Calyx 

 tomentose, slightly more than '1 in. long, carapanulate : the mouth with 

 4 broad, ti'iangular, spreading lobes. Corolla nearly twice as long as the 



