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or tomentose, the hairs inside the tube not deflexed. Petals 5, pink, glab- 

 rous, longer than the calyx-lobes, very unequal ; the two posterior erect, 

 broadly elliptic, concave, clawed ; the three anterior narrowly oblong, 

 re volute, imbricate, flat. Stamens 25-30, in a single semi tabular 

 phalange, as long as the petals, glabrous ; the anthers small. Ovary 

 villous, 2-celled. Style curved, longer than the stamens, villous in the 

 lower, glabrous in the upper half. Fruit unknown. 



Perak ; Scortechini, 240, 2040. • King's Collector, 664, 6899. 

 A species easily recognised by its curved flowers and very unequal sepals and 

 petals. 



12. Parinarium ? nitidum, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IT, 310. A tree 

 15-40 feet high ; young branches very slender, with pale-brown glabrous 

 shining bark. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, shortly and bluntly 

 acuminate, the blade much narrowed to the base and continued along 

 the sides of the upper half of the petiole ; both surfaces quite glabrous, 

 the upper very shining; the lower slightly dull, paler, almost glaucous 

 when young ; main nerves 7-9 pairs, ascending, faint ; length 2*25-3'5, 

 rarely 4 in , breadth '8-l'75, rarely 2 or 25 in. ; petiole below the winged 

 part *1- 2 in. Panicles slightly shorter or longer than the leaves, hoary- 

 tomentose, axillary and terminal, with short sub-horizontal cymosely 

 3-flowered branches ; bracts oblong, shorter than the flowers, broadly 

 ovate, acute, concave. Flowers "15 in. long and about the same in 

 width at the mouth, subsessile. Calyx widely funnel-shaped, the 

 lobes broadly triangular, acute ; the exterior hoary -tomentose ; the 

 interior lined by the subglabrous tube formed by dilated bases of the 

 filaments, and with a thickened hairy process on the side opposite the 

 cS-10 anthers. Petals longer than the calyx-lobes, oblong-obtuse, 

 incurved. Ovary densely sericeous, the style short. Fruit obovoid- 

 rotund, glabrous, 1-celled, *35 in. long and about 25 in. in diam. ; the 

 pericarp thin, leathery, densely woolly inside. 



Malacca ; Griffith 2017/1, Maingay 619. Berry 189, 1180. Perak ; 

 King's Collector 8599, 8680, 8711. Penang ; Curtis 147, 853; King's 

 Collector 1274, 1472. 



Very few of tbe specimens which I have seen of this have fruit, and of these 

 not one has a seed. When the material has been fully completed by the receipt of 

 seeds, I think a new genus might witli advantage be formed for this plant ; for it 

 differs from the other species of Parinarium here described in having a cushion- 

 like process in its calyx-tube the other parts of which are lined by the tube formed 

 by the lower part of the dilated filaments. It also has a small 1 -celled fruit with a 

 thin leathery pericarp. 



2. Parastemon, A. DC. 

 A shrul) or small tree. Leaves simple, alternate, evergreen, quite 



