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acute, pubescent margins the scarious. Cymes axillary and extra-axil- 
laiy, sessile, condensed, 3 to 6-flowered ; bnicteoles lanceolate, keeled, 
pubescent. Sepals slightly unequal, ovate, obtuse, ribbed, tomentose 
externally, nearly as long- as tho petals. Petals oblong, obtuse, pubescent 
externally, glabrous internally. Stamens from a short glabrous disc ; 
li laments longer than the anther, glabrous. Anthers narrowly ovate, 
the base cordate, with a single small terminal white appendage. Ovary 
sessile, densely villous, style sparsely villous : stigma truncate, cup- 
shaped. Capsule when ripe from I to 2 in. across, densely covered with 
brownish, tomentose, branched, felted fibres : valves compressed, blunt 
*75 in. long : seeds sub-globose, compressed, smooth, tho caruncle ovate. 
Hook. 81* Bl Br. fed. i. 188 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 116 ; Oudem. 
Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 79 ; Miq. 1. c. iv. 216; PI. Jungh. i. 122. 
Singapore, Malacca, Perak, Penang, at low elevations. Distrib. 
S u ma t ra , J > ai j gka . 
Usually a small tree 20 to 30 feet high. Sometimes shrubby. 
13. A. capillata, King, n- sp. A small shrub, 1 he young branches 
rufous-tomentose. Leaves membranous, shortly petiolate, lanceolate, 
acuminate both at apex and base, serrulato ; upper surface glabrous 
except the pubescent nerves and midrib ; lower rufous-pubescent; tho 
nerves about 11 pairs, bold, as are tho transverse veins ; length 6 to 7 in., 
breadth 15 to 1*75 in., petiole '25 in.; stipules lanceolate, pubescent ex- 
ternally. Flowers in small, Bub-scssile, 3 to 5-flowerod, axillary cymes. 
Sepals narrowly oblong, obtuse, tomentose externally. Petals linear- 
oblong, the apex sub-acuto and reflexed, hairy along the midrib externally. 
Stamens alternating with the lobes of a deep, 5-lobed, glabrous disc ; lila- 
menfcs slender, glabrous, longer than the anthers. Anthem small, ovate, 
each with an ovate acute small terminal appendage Ovary sessile, 
globular, villous : style long, cylindric, sub-villous ; stigma truncate, cup- 
shaped. Capsule '5 in. long, rusty — pubescent externally and densely 
covered with unbranched, often hooked, soft, pubescent spines about 
5 in. long and not felted. Seeds ovoid, smooth, pale, with dark semi- 
circumferential bund, and an oblong eanmeuhis. 
Laroot in Perak, King's Collector No. 2462. A small bush 4 to 
8 feet high. This coraeB near A. echinocorpa and comosa, but diilers 
notably in its flowers and seeds. 
Section III. Anther cells each with a terminal subulate appendage ; 
no appendage from the connective. 
14. A. comosa, King, n. sp. A shrub or small tree, the young 
branches densely ferniginous-tomentose. Leaves membranous, sub-sessile, 
oblong-oblanceolate, caudate-acuminate, serrulate, the base rounded ; upper 
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