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the others. The Sumatran species A. dasypyxis, Miq. comes very near 

 this, but has longer racemes and more hairy frnit. 



In Alsodeia lanceolata, Wall, there is a transition from Pentaloba 

 to Prosthesia. Many of the specimens of A. lanceolata have the single 

 terminal lanceolate appendage from the apex of the connective : others 

 (Curtis's Penang specimen) have this appendage ovate and broader, 

 wliile from the apex of each anther there is a rudimentary apical ap- 

 pendage, thus apjoroaching Prosthesia, 



9. A. ScoRTECHiNn, King, n. sp. A small glabrous tree, the branch- 

 lets usually pale brown. Leaves membranous, shortly petiolato, obliquely 

 elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, irregu- 

 larly serrulate ; main nerves about 12 or 13 pairs, rather bold ; secondary 

 nerves transverse, slightly prominent below ; length 7 to 9 in., breadth 



2 to 3 in,, petiole '2 in. Eacemes sessile, about -5 in. long, several toge- 

 tber, axillary or extra-axillary, about 3 to 5-flowered, with ovate bracteo- 

 les. Flowers pedicellate. Sepals puberulous, broadly ovate, much shorter 

 than the petals. Petals 5, oblanceolate, with long bluntly acuminate 

 exserted apices. Stamens glabrous, shorter than the petals ; the filaments 

 twice as long as the anthers, slender, rising from a deep, 5-lobed, slight- 

 ly-notched disc; the anthers, short, ovate, with a single very small 

 terminal appendage ; ovary sessile, globose, glabrous, wartod ; style 

 long, cylindric, glabrous or puberulous. Eipe capstde ovoid, pointed, 

 rather more than -5 in. long, glabrous, lenticellate ; valves compressed, 

 pointed. Seeds 2 in each valve, sub-rotund, whitish, carunculate. 



Peralc ; King's Collector, Scortechini, Wray ; at low elevations. 



A large shrub or tree 20 to 25 feet high. Externally this much re- 

 sembles A. Maingayi, but the flowers, and especially the anthers, differ 

 much. 



10. A. COKDENSA, King, n. sp. A glabrous tree ; the older branch, 

 lets pale, lenticellate. Leaves membranous, shortly petiolate, inequilateral, 

 elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, serrulate, gradually narrowed below 

 the middle to the acute unequal base ; shining above, darker and dull 

 beneath ; midrib and 13 to 15 pairs of prominent main nerves pale and 

 sub-erect beneath, secondary nerves transverse ; length 8 to 14 in. 

 breadth 3 to 4-5 in,, petiole -25 to '35 in. ; stipules .subulate, '35 to -5 in.' 

 Panicles axillary, crowded, much branched, spreading, 1 to 2'5 in. long, 

 (longer in fruit) puberulous or glabrescent ; the bacteoles numerous, 

 ovate, acute. Sepals unequal ; the outer 2 or 3 larger, rotund ; the inner 



3 or 2 ovate, pubescent on the back. Petals ovate, a little longer than 

 sepals, rhomboid, with pale edges, villous on the back externally and 

 along the midrib internally. Stamens glabrous, the filaments rather 

 short, from a fleshy disc : anthers cordate, with a single terminal white 



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