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sericeous every wliere, the apiculus of the connective with a terminal 

 tuft ; filaments short. Ovary depressed-hemispheric, 3-1-celled, smooth 

 as is the cylindric style; stigma small, conical, Fruit '75 in. in diam., 

 imperfectly 3 to 4-celled, pericarp smooth. Seeds few, large, brown, 

 horse-shoe-shaped, punctate, shining. 



Perak ; from 500 to 1500 feet, King's Collector, Scortechini. Distrib. 

 Sumatra. 



The Perak specimens agree perfectly with Teysmann's types 

 collected in Sumatra. 



8. Adinandra Miquelii, King. A medium sized tree : young 

 branches stout, the bark white and polished. Leaves thickly coriaceous, 

 oblanceolate, apex with a short blunt abrupt point, gradually narrowed 

 in the lower half to the petiole, entire ; midrib prominent ; nerves 5 to 7 

 pairs, ascending, anastomising *2 in. from the mai'gin, invisible in the 

 fresh, inconspicuous in the dry state ; length 4 to 6 in , breadth 1*5 to 225 

 in. ; petiole "6 to '75 in., stout. Flowers about - 75 in. in diam., scattered 

 below the apices of the branches, axillary and extra-axillary, polygamous : 

 peduncles spreading, solitary, compressed, pale, "75 to 1 in. long; the 

 bracteoles just below the flower, small, fugaceous. Sepals fleshy, rotund, 

 the 2 outer much smaller. Petals larger than the sepals, rotund, clawed, 

 fleshy. Stamens numerous, chiefly from the torus, pubescent, the con- 

 nective with a long apiculus, filaments short. Ovary depressed-globose, 

 2-celled, narrowed above into the short cylindric style : stigma shortly 

 bifid, the lobes narrow acute spreading. Fruit unknown. Temstrcemia 

 hancana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 477. 



Penang; Curtis, No. 1612. Distrib. Bangka. 



The stigma shows that this does not belong to the genus Tern- 

 strcemia into which Miquel put it. It is evidently a rare plant in 

 Penang, as Curtis's specimen (which agrees perfectly with Miquel's type- 

 specimens from Bangka) is the only one which I have seen from that 

 island. 



3. Ternstrcemia, Linn. 



Evergreen glabrous trees or shrubs, heaves more or less coriaceous, 

 entire or crenate-serrate. Peduncles axillary, solitary or sub-fasciculate, 

 recurved, 2-bracteolate, flowers usually dioecious. Sepals 5, imbricate. 

 Petals 5, imbricate, connate by their bases. Stamens many, mostly ad- 

 herent to the base of the corolla, anthers glabrous. Ovary 2 to 3-celled, 

 style simple or absent. Stigma broadly 2 to 3-lobed or sub- entire ; 

 ovules usually 2 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit indehiscent, sub-baccate. 

 Seeds rather large, the albumen copious or scanty. Distrib. Tropical 

 Asia and America ; species about 30. 





