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when expanded, minutely yellowish-pulverulent, tomentose outside, 

 glabrous inside. Stamens 15, sub-equal : apical awn curved, longer 

 than the anther. Ovary ovoid, narrowing upwards into the style ; stigma 

 minute. Fruit ovoid, very slightly apiculatc, striate, pale pubescent, 

 about "6 in. long and '3 in. in diam., the persistent calyx covering the 

 lower third of the fruit, sub-glabrous, thickened and concave at the 

 base ; the teeth deltoid, spreading. Richetia penangiana, Heim in Bull. 

 Soc. Linn. Paris, 1891, p. 980. 



Penang : on Government Hill, at an elevation of about 1,000 feet, 

 Curtis, Nos. 1429 and 1393 ; Hullett, No. 188 ; King's Collector, No. 

 1534. Perak: King's Collector, Nos. 3333, 3707. 



The leaves of this species, although larger, resemble those of B. 

 Curiisii : but the fruits of the two are quite different. One of Mr. 

 Curtis' specimens, No. 429 (communicated from Kew), forms the type of 

 a new genus called Richetia, which M. Heim has founded (1. c. p., 975, 

 also in his " Recherches sur les Dipterocarpacees" p. 50), without having 

 seen its flowers. I have retained for this M. Heim's specific name, while 

 referring it to Beddome's older genus. The vernacular name of the 

 species is Dammar Etam. 



3. Bala.nocakits anomalus, King. A tree : young branches slender, 

 dark-coloured, minutely lenticellate, the tips puberulous. Leaves coria- 

 ls, ovate, acuminate; the base broad, sub-cuneate ; both surfaces 

 glabrous ; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, ascending, curving, not prominent : 

 length 225 to 25 in., breadth 1 to 1*3 in., petiole - 6 to "7 in. Panicles 

 numerous, axillary and terminal, longer than the leaves, pubescent, 

 their lateral branchlets bearing 6 to 8 sub-secund flowers. Flowers 

 shortly pedicelled, '15 in. long. Sepals broadly ovate, connate at the 

 obtuse, minutely tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Petals 

 elliptic, blunt, yellowish adpressed-sericeous outside, glabrous inside, 

 only about twice as h>ng as the sepals, spreading and reflexed so as to 

 expose the stamens and pistil. Stamens 10, in two rows ; the filaments 

 longer than the anthers, dilated ; anther short, ovate, its connective pro- 

 duced into an apical awn as long as itself. Ovary ovoid, striate, pubes- 

 cent, style short and thick, stigma small. 



Kedah : Curtis, No. 1G54. 



Mr. Curtis is as yet the only collector of this, and his specimens 

 have no fruit. I refer it to this genus, although its flowers differ from 

 those of the other species known to me, in having petals only about 

 twice as long as the sepals, spreading and reflexed so that the andro- 

 gyiiojciurn is quite exposed ; and in having only 10 stamens In other 

 respects the specimens agree with L'alanocarpus. Its vernacular name 

 in Kedah is Malaut. 



