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distantly stib-crenato ; both surfaces mhmtoly and sparsely stellat e-pub- 
escent, glabrescent when old, harsh ; length and breadth 2 to b' in., 
petiole less than half as long as the blade. Flowers in stout few- 
flowered terminal racemes longer than the leaves ; peduncles stout, very 
rugulose, ebracteate, '75 to 1*5 in. long. Involucres combined into a 
bluntly-lohed cup much shorter than the calyx. Sepals oblong-lanceo- 
late, 1*5 in, long", coriaceous, united, for half their length or more. 
Petals membranous, spathulate, 4 in. long, glabrous inside, boldly 
striate and hispid-pubescent externally. Staminal-hibe stellate-pub- 
escent. Capsule obovoid, truncate, shorter than the persistent close- 
ly adherent calyx, densely stellate-pubescent and very rugulose, 5- 
valved, dehiscing only at the apex. Seeds numerous, obovate, sub- 
compressed, with shortly pilose angles, the rest of the surface scaly. 
Mount Ophir, Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 210. Perak ; 
King's Collector 7024. 
1 have not been able to detect stipules on any of the specimens 
1 have seen. They are probably fugacious. 
5. Tn esp esi a, Corr. 
TrceR or shrubs. Leaves entire. Inflorescence axillary. Sracteoles 
5-8, arising from the thickened end of the peduncle, deciduous. Calyx 
cup-shaped, truncate, minutely 5-toothed, Corolla convolute. Staminal- 
tube 5-toothed at the apex. Ovary 4-5-cellcd ; style club-shaped, 5- 
fu rro wed, entire or 5-toothed ; ovules few in each cell. Capsule loculi- 
cidal or scarcely dehiscent. Seeds tomentose; cotyledons conduplicate, 
black-dotted.— Natives of tropical Asia, Madagascar, and Australasia; 
species about 6. 
T. topulnea, Corr. in Ann. Mus. ix. p. 290. A tree 20 to 30 feet 
high, young shoots scaly. Leaves on long petioles, sub-coriaceous, 
broadly cordate, acuminate, entire, glabrous above, sparsely scaly on 
lower surface ; the base 5 to 7-nerved with a glandular poro between 
the nerves ; length 4*5 to 6 in., breadth 3 to 4 in. petiole 2"5 in. Floivera 
2 to 3 in. in diam., solitary, axillary, on peduncles shorter than the 
petioles ; petals bright yellow with a brown spot at the base ; bracteoleB 
close to the calyx, lanceolate, often abortive. Capsule 1 to 1*5 in. in diam., 
depressed-spheroidal, scaly, becoming glabrescent ; pericarp of 2 layers. 
Seeds 1 to 3 in each cell, reniform, minutely tomentose or mealy. Mast, 
in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 345; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i. 128; Miq. Fl. 
Ind. Bat, i. pt. 2, loO; Pierre Fl. For. Coch-Chine x. 173 ; BL Bij.lr. 
73; Cav. Diss. iii. 152, t. 56, f. I ; DC. Prodr. i. 456; W. & A. Prodr. 
i. 54; Wight Ic. t. 8; Thwaites Enum. 27; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 63; 
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