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mucronem minutam producto adnatse. Ovarium liberum, 3- 

 loculare, stylus filiformis, stigmate truncate Tubus calycis frueti- 

 feri haud auctus ; lobi calycini 5, valvati, basin versus attenuati, 

 omnes valde aucti et aliformes, aequales v. 2 paullo breviores, 

 subpatentes. Nux monosperma, libera, nee loborum basibus arete 

 contorto-cincta, ut in Shorea. — Arbores ingentes, foliis lucidis et 

 floribus albidis dense racemose- -paniculatis. 



21. Parashorea Stellata, ». sp. Arbor ingens, glabra; 

 folia ovato-lanceolata, acutiuscula v. apiculata ; lobis calycis fructi- 

 geri aliformes, sequales et subpatentes ; nux ovata v. oblongo- 

 ovata. — Martaban (Dr. Brandis). 



22. Parashorea lucida {Shorea lucida, Miq., Suppl. Fl. Sumatr. 

 487), differs from tlie former by the smaller more shining 

 leaves, which are shortly acuminate. It has also the wings 

 of the fruitbearing calyx shorter and broader, and the nuts are 

 smaller and almost globular. 



A third species of Parashorea will be Shorea lo?igisperma, Exb., 

 (DC, Ind., II, 618) which has the nuts longer than any of the 

 foregoing two species, but nothing is known of it except the fruit. 



23. Shorea Siame?isis, Miq., Ann. Lugd. Bat., I, 214; DO. 

 Prod., XVI, 631, is identical with Pentacme suavis, DO. 

 (Prod. 1. c. 626) and the name has, therefore, to be changed in 

 Pentacme Siamensis. The tube of the fruitbearing calyx remains 

 unchanged, with all the 5 lobes wing-like enlarged, two of them 

 about ^ shorter, the remaining 3 about 4 inch long, obovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, very narrowed towards the broad imbricate 

 base, glabrous ; nut ovoid, acuminate by the persistent style, 

 glabrous. 



MALVACEAE. 



24. DecaSChistia parviflora, n. sp. Suffrutex ? v. herba 

 perennis, ramosus ; folia oblongo-lanceolata v. oblonga, longe 

 petiolata (petiolo fere pollicari gracili puberulo), acuta, obsolete 

 dentata, coriacea, supra dense puberula et scabriuscula, subtus 

 albo- v. gilvo-tomentosa ; flores parvi, iis Urencs lobatce non 

 absimiles, breve rigideque pedicellati, in axillis foliorum superiorum 

 solitarii et racemos terminales formantes ; involucri phylla calyce 



