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shortly pedicelled. Sepals 5 ovate acute, with one or two 

 tufts of stellate hairs longer than the flowers. Petals 5 

 smaller orbicular glabrous. Staminal tube free semi- 

 globose, 5 anthers, glabrous. 



Malacca (N. Cantley). " Tambu Gulong " timber 

 used for beams, and the fruit is edible sweet." 



I have seen no other specimens of this curious 

 species, remarkable for the dense covering of red hairs 

 stel lately arranged all over it, no leaves on the two sheets 

 are complete, so I cannot give the exact size. 

 Walsura villosq, (Wall. Cat. 1264) Dec. Prodi-, p. 636. 



Leaves under 6 inches long, leaflets five elliptic acu- 

 minate, 3-5 inches long 1J inch wide, thinly coriaceous 

 pale glabrous shining above glaucous beneath when dry, 

 nerves 6 pairs slender, petiolule § inch long, rachis 

 triquetrous. Panicles 14 inches long minutely pubescent 

 lax, branches 1^ inch long with the branchlets crowded 

 at the top. Flowers shortly pedicelled } inch long. 

 Calyx lobes 5 ovate acute pubescent. Petals longer about 

 twice as long oblong pubescent. Stamens 10 nearly free 

 to the base, filaments broad linear hairy. Anthers on the 

 tips rounded pubescent. Ovary silky hairy. 



Perak: at Kamuning (Eidley 3022). 



This plant which is not recorded in the Materials 

 for a flora of the Malay Peninsula, is a native also of 

 Tenasserim. 



OCHXACEAE. 

 Gomphia corymbosa, n. sp. 



A shrub 6 to 8 feet tall or a small tree about 20 feet 

 tall. Leaves oblong coriaceous to lanceolate subacute 

 4-4-J inches long 1-H inches wide dark shining green, 

 petiole \ inch long. Umbels on the ends of short 

 branches many and dense flowered, one inch to nearly 

 2 inches across. Bracts oblong ovate coriaceous convolute 

 round the base of the pedicel T ^ inch long obtuse. Pe- 

 dicel \ inch long slender. Flowers \ inch across pure 

 white. Sepals oblong obtuse apex broad deflexed. 

 Petals linear obtuse much narrower. Stamens 6-9, fila- 



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



