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serrulate, pale when dry ; nerves R to 10 pairs, slight ly prominent below ; 
length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1*5 to 2 5 in., petiole "2 to '4 in. ; stipules 
scarious, pale, ovate-acute, striate, pubcrulous, "25 in. long. Racemes 
terminal, 4 to 6 in. long, bearing 1 numerous 2 to 5 flowered cyninles ; bracts 
broadly ovate, scarious, concave, striate. Sepals ovate, ciliolate. Petals 
oblong, obtuse, the apex undulate, erose or toothed, edges ciliolate. Sta- 
mens from the edge of a deep fleshy disc ; filaments very short, glabrous : 
anthers ovate, with a broadly ovate appendage from the middle of the 
back curving over the apex, the cells divergent at the apex and each with 
a subulate terminal appendage. Ovary Bessile, glabrous, globose : 
Style cylindric, with a few white adprcssed hairs: stigma obliquely 
truncate, cup-shaped. Capsules ovoid, bluntly angled, glabrous, reti- 
culate, *75 in. long; valves blunt: seeds globose with an ovoid beaked 
hilnm, pale, smooth. 
Perak, at low elevations. King's Collector. 
Var. hirsutijlora, King, Sejmls tomentose externally; filaments 
sparsely villous ; disc small : the cymnles larger and the bracteoles 
longer and narrower than in the typical form. 
Perak ; Changkat Jeriu. L, Wray, junior. 
The whole plant when dried has a charactorestic grey colour, and 
from this circnmslanco I have given its specific name. 
Sect, II. Pent aloha. Anthers with a broad, usually terminal, ap- 
pendage from tlie crmneelivo ; but none from the rolls. 
8. A. laxceolata, Wall. (Pentaloba) Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 188. 
All parts, except the inflorescence quite, glabrous ; bark of the young 
branches pale. Leaves shortly petiolate, elongate-lanceolate, bluntly 
acuminate, the base much narrowed ; nerves 9 to 12 pairs, sub-erect ; 
slightly curved, prominent especially below, secondary venation trans- 
verse ; length 5 to 8 in., breadth 1*25 to 1*75 in., petiole "2 in. Racemes 
about '5 in. long, 4 to 6-flowcred, minutely braeteolate. Flowers on short 
pubescent pedicels. Sepals ovate, obtuse, thick, pubescent, about half as 
long as the petals. Petals lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely villous towards 
the middle. Filaments as long as the anthers, slender, glabrous, rising 
from a small glabrous disc; anthers linear-lanceolate with a single 
lanceolate terminal appendage. Ovmii rudimentary in many flower?, 
sub-globose and, like the cylindric style, villous. Fruit sub-globoso, 
minutely pubescent, 'Ijo in. long, valves in dehiscence beaked. Oudem. 
in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 08 ; Vareca lanceolata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
i. 643. Pent, lanceolate. Am. in Jard. Mag. Zoo. Bot ii. 544. 
Penang ; Wallich, Stolickza, Curtis, King's Collector, 
A shrub 0 to 8 feet high : apparently confined to Penang. This 
species is much more frequently truly hermaphrodite than some of 
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