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as long as the tube, anthers 8. Female flowers and fruits 

 not seen. 



Selangor: Ulu Gombak (Burn-Murdoch No. 153). 



I have a sheet of this curious Sterculia in Cantley's 

 collections made about 1885, with a Singapore ticket on 

 it but no locality, and recently Burn-Murdoch sent it 

 from Selangor. It is remarkable for its great hairiness 

 being covered with two kinds of hairs, one long slender 

 pale, the other velvety hairs in small tufts.. 



BUESEEACEAE. 



Trigonochlamys grandi folia, n. sp. 



A tree, leaves over a foot long, the petiole 4 inches 

 long or less, densely covered with red tomentum, leaflets 

 opposite three pairs and a terminal one, elliptic obtuse or 

 cuspidate, base rounded or shortly cuneate, margins den- 

 ticulate, stiffly coriaceous, above glabrous beneath covered 

 with red tomentum, nerves 12 pairs strongly elevate 

 beneath with elevated transverse nervules petiolules J 

 inch, densely red tomentose as is the rachis, leaflets 6 

 inches longer less 2 inches wide. Panicle shorter than 

 the leaves. Male about 6 inches long, female shorter, all 

 densely red tomentose, with few short branches. Flowers 

 crowded, sessile half an inch long. Male flowers on 

 longer panicles than the females. Calyx campanulate 

 half an inch long with deltoid acute lobes 3, f inch 

 across, very coriaceous and densely red hairy. Petals 3, 

 as long thinner lanceolate obtuse, back centre hairy, 

 margins glabrous. Stamens 3 glabrous filaments free to 

 the base, anthers lanceolate* connivent. Disc annular 

 setose. Female flowers rather larger and fewer. Calyx 

 and corolla as in the male. Stamens shorter than the 

 style, ovary conic densely tomentose, style stout. Fruit 

 unknown. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah (Eidley 10735) male with- 

 out locality (Cantley) female. 



One species only of this genus has been as yet des- 

 cribed, Tr. Griffitliii, a tolerably common tree. This 



R. A. Soc, No. 54. 1909. 



