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ovate membranous appendage. Ovary sessile, globose, glabrous. Style 

 cylindric ; Stigma cup-shaped. Capsule ovoid, pointed, glabrous, not 

 lenticellate : valves compressed, pointed ; seeds sub-globular, carunculato. 



Perak, Scoi'teobini, King's Collector ; at low elevations. 



A tree 30 to 40 feet kigb, approacbing A. Scortechini in externals, 

 but witb different flowers. 



11. A. ri.OKiBUNDA, King, n. sp. A sbrub or ti-ee, the young branches 

 minutely fulvous-tomentose. Leaves membranous, shortly petiolate, 

 oblong-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, sometimes elliptic, acute or acumi- 

 nate, more or less obscurely serrulate ; the base rounded, rarely acute ; 

 upper surface glabrous except the pubescent midrib and nerves ; under 

 surface minutely and softly tomentose, the midrib and 14 to 36 pairs 

 oF rather straight nerves and the transverse secondary nerves promi- 

 ment ; length 4'5 to 7 in , breadth 1-5 to 2'5 in., petiole '1 to '2 in.; 

 stipules lanceolate, pubescent on the midrib, '25 in. long. Cymes axil- 

 lary, on peduncles 1 to 1-5 in. long, much branched, diohotomous, spread- 

 ing, many-flowered ; bracteoles oblong, obtuse, pubescent. Sepals 

 unequal, the outer 3 ovate-rotund, the inner 2 ovate, all obtuse and pubes- 

 cent. Petals ovate-oblong, obtuse, longer than the sepals, the apices 

 usually reflexed. Stamens from a deep, pilose, 10-lobed, disc : filaments 

 expanded and pilose towards the apex, contracted and glabrous below ; 

 anthers elongate-ovate, with a single connectival ovate terminal ap- 

 pendage. Ovary sessile, villous, tomentose ; style cylindric, puborulous : 

 stigma truncate, cup-shaped Caps^de ovoid, obtusely angled, adpressed- 

 pubescent, -35 in. long ; the valves blunt ; seeds sub-globose, angled ; 

 caruncle long, narrow. 



Perak, at low elevations ; very common. 



Distrib. Sumatra ; Lampongs, Forbes, 1719 ; Padang, Beccari. P. 

 S. 683. 



Usually a tree, and sometimes attaining the height (fide Kunstler) 

 of 70 feet. But also, according to the same colleoter, found as a shrub 

 6 to 8 feet high. This is allied to the Burmese species A. mollis, H. f. 

 and Th., which however, besides having the anthers oi a. Frosthesia, 

 has much smaller cymes, and bi'oader bracteoles and sepals. 



12. A. ECHINOCAKPA, Kortb. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II, 360. A small 

 tree, the young branches fulvous or ferruginous-tomentose. Leaves 

 membranous, shortly petiolate, obovate or ovate-elliptic, abruptly and 

 shortly acuminate, boldly and unequally serrate, the base rounded or 

 narrowed; upper surface glabrous except the pubescent midrib and 

 nerves ; the lower softly pubescent, the midrib, 11 to 15 pairs of nerves 

 and transverse secondary nerves pale and prominent : length 6'5 to 9 in., 

 breadth 2-25 to 3-25 in., petiole -1 to 2 in. ; stipules '25 in. long ovate, 



