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and very smooth above, beneath covered with hair especially on 

 the midrib, nerves about 18 pairs almost or quite invisible above, 

 petiole less than J inch long hairy. Flowers in peduncled cymes 

 axillary silky, peduncles J inch long covered with silky hairs. 

 Pedicels stout £ inch long, tube of the flower as long" cylindrical, 

 lobes five ovate much shorter than the tube, silky outside, a 

 thickly silky ring in the mouth at the back of the stamens and 

 barely longer than the mouth of the tube. Stamens ten, anthers 

 oblong * nearly sessile in the mouth of the tube, 2 celled apex 

 below bifid, filaments adnate to the tube for their whole length, 

 distinctly elevated hairy. Pistil oblong hairy, much shorter 

 than the tube, dilated above, stigma conic. Fruit with the per- 

 sistent perianth much enlarged, half an inch long, capsular, flat- 

 tened pear-shaped with a long narrow base dilated at the end, 

 1^ inch long pubescent grey when dry, grooved down each 

 face and ^ an inch wide at the widest part, thinly woody two 

 valved with a partition along each cell. Seed f inch long ovoid 

 cordate with the funicle f inch long conic at the base and taper- 

 ing into a filament. Dense woods Singapore, Kranji; Johor, 

 Bukit Pengaram, Batu Pahat. 



The species belongs to what was originally made a distinct 

 genus under the name of Gyrinopsis^ differing from the typical 

 Aquilarias in its long-tubed flowers. In this it is allied to a Philip- 

 pines species known as A. Cumingiana but it differs from that in 

 in the hairiness of its leaves. The hairiness of the back of the 

 leaves distinguishes the species from any others yet described, 

 in all of which the leaves when full grown are quite smooth. 

 The flowers are silky within and without. The scales in the 

 mouth of the tube are represented by a thickened densely hairy 

 ring between the anthers and the lobes of the flowers. The 

 tube of the flower is also covered thinly with silky hairs. The 

 pistil has a narrowed base and is rather abruptly dilated above ; 

 this narrowed portion perhaps corresponds to the stalk of the 

 pistil in G-yrinops, the ovules being in the slightly dilated portion 

 of the upper part. The tree as has been said is much smaller 

 than the Gam. When cut down, however, it is seen that the 

 centre of the wood (more than half of it) is of a dusky blackish 

 grey, the sapwood being white. This centre is the aromatic 

 portion. 



