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ceous, oval-oblong, sometimes slightly oblanceolate, the apex obtuse, 
very slightly cmarginate, the edges thickened and slightly recurved, quite 
entire or very faintly sub- serrulate ; the base slightly narrowed, roundish ; 
both surfaces shining, the upper greenish ; the lower dull, tinged with 
brown when dry, midrib bold : nerves about 1*2 pairs, thick but incon- 
spicuous ; length 1*75 to 2'25 in., breadth "9 to l"l in.; petiole "15 in,, 
thick. Flowers about 1 in. in diam., axillary, solitary, sub-sessile, only 
in the upper axils ; the buds elongate-obovoid ; the bracts numerous, 
closely imbricate, passing into the sepals, all orbicular, and pubescent 
externally with broad scarious glabrous edges. Petals much larger than 
the Bepals, orbicular, densely and minutely pubescent externally, fleshy 
with thin glabrous edges. Stamens numerous; anthers ovate, about 
one-fourth of the length of the slender cylindric filaments. Ovary 
ovoid-conic, ridged, adpressed-pnhcseent, .Welled. Style single, boldly 
5-ridged ; stigtnas distinct, small. Fruit slightly under 1 in. long, *4 in. 
in diam., 5-angled, adpressed-pubescent, subtended by the elongate im- 
bricate cup formed by the sepals and bracts. Seeds "75 in. in length, of 
which one half is wing. 
Perak. Scortechini, No. 402b. 
Father Scortechini's scanty specimens are accompanied by no notes ; 
but, from the speoies of Hymenophyllum growing on the branches of 
some of them, I concludo that they were collected probably at elevations 
of 4000 or 5000 feet. The remarkaole imbricate buds at once dis- 
tinguish this species. 
6. Gordonia mdlt'NERVis, King, n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 feet high ; 
young branches smooth, greenish, sub-coraprossed, all parts glabrous 
except the flowers. Leaves thinly coriaceous, obovate, apex rounded or 
mucronate, faintly crenate-serrate or Bubentire, attenuate below the 
middle and passing into the short petiole; upper surface greenish when 
dry, the lower brown, midrib bold ; main nerves 12 to 18 pairs, spread- 
ing, rather faint, interarching *2 in. from the edge, length 5"5 to 8 in., 
breadth 2 5 to 3*25 in. ; petiole '2 to "25 in., stout. Flowers 125 in. in 
diam., on stout curved peduncles "5 to '6 in. long; bracts small, few, 
fugaceous. Sepals rotund, fleshy, spreading, adpressed-sericeous ex- 
ternally, the edges glabrous. Petals like the sepals but larger and thin- 
ner, spreading. Anthers short, broadly ovate, only a quarter of the 
length of the slender slightly flattened filaments. Ovary ovoid-conic, 
adpressed-sericeous, 5-celled. Style single, thick, sub-glabrous. Stigma 
discoid, with 5 blunt lobes. Fruit unknown. 
Perak; Scortechini, No. 1968. 
The style and stigmas are quite those of a Gordonia. The leaves, 
however, are more those of a Pyrenaria and are very like those of the 
Burmese P. attenuata> Seem. 
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