bescent ovary, sub-globular seeds, and in its often having 5 styles. There 
may be two species covered by the foregoing description : but I cannot 
find a constant character to separate them. I believe this to be Blame's 
5. Noronhitnia and De Candolle's 8, mtdijlora : but, not having been able 
to consult any authentic specimen of the former and only moderately good 
ones of the latter, I am not quite satisfied of the identity with them of 
this common Perak tree. The genus Saurauja is a veiy puzzling one. 
The species come very close together, and Miqnel's descriptions of the 
numerous species which ho named are so incomplete that it is almost 
impossible to recognise them with any certainty. 
3. Saurauja caumflora, Bl. Bijdr. 128, var. cahjeinn, King. A 
tree : young branches and petioles densely covered with long paleaceous 
yellowish hairs. Leaves elliptic-oblong, shortly and sharply acuminate, 
the edges faintly nristate-scrrate, the base acute; upper surface gla- 
brous ; lower pale brown when dry, strigoso on the midrib nerves and 
veins ; main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, spreading, prominent beneath ; length 
6 to 9 in., breadth 2 - 25 to 2*75 in., petiole about 1 in. Flmvers "4 in. in 
diam., on long pedicels, crowded in large fascicles from flat tubercles on 
the larger branches aud stem ; pedicels from '75 to L*5 in, long, tomen- 
tosc-squamulose, rnfous. Sepals rotund, the outer densely tomentose- 
squamulose ; the inner almost glabrous, veined. Petals obovate-oblong, 
blunt, united in their lower third, membranous, nerved, scarcely so large 
as the sepals. Stamens about 25, adherent to the corolla, elongate-ovate, 
adnate, dehiscing by two large apieul pores. Ovary scaly, 3-celIed, raulti- 
ovulate. Styles 3, united by their bases only. Fruit enveloped by the 
slightly accrescent calyx, sub-glabrous, 3-celled. Seeds small, ovate- 
rotund, compressed, foveolate, pale brown, DC. Mem. Soc. Geneve I, 
425; Korth. Verb. Nat. Gesch. Hot, 12C j Hassk. PI. .Tav. Rar. 273 ; 
Miq, Fi Ind. Bat. I, Pt. ii s p. 486, Ann. Mus. Ludg, Bat. IY, 106. 
Perak : Batu Kurau, Seortechini, No, 1614, 
This differs in no respect from the plant described by Blume, of 
which I have seen good specimens, except in its larger sepals which are 
densely tomentose-squamnlose externally. 
7. Pyrenaiua, Blume. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves serrate, large and sub-membranous. Floivers 
sab-sessile, axillary, erect or nodding. Sepals usually 5, unequal, gra- 
duating from the bracts to the petals. Petals connate at the base. 
Staviens very numerous, mostly connate, adnate to the base of the petals. 
Ovary 5-celled ; styles 5, free, or partially united ; ovules 2 in each cell, 
attached laterally. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent. Seeds oblong, stout, 
with a thick woody testa, wingless ; albumen 0 j cotyledons large, crum- 
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