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a layer of minute tomcntam and 00 the surface (and especially on the 
midrib and nerves) many minute deciduous rusty stellate hairs ; nerves 
10 to 12 pairs, prominent beneath f spreading ; length 4 to 55 in., breadth 
1*5 to 2 in,, petiole '25 in. ; stipules caducous. Flowers 2 in. long: the 
buds cyliudric, acute, solitary, axillary ; pedicels *1 in. long, tomentoso 
like the exterior of the sepals, minute, linear-subulate. Sepals linear- 
lanceolate, adpressed-sericeous within. Petals shorter than the sepals, 
oblanceolate, scaly, puberulous externally. Staminal tube and gynophoro 
*25 in. long, the free part of the filaments more than twice as long ; 
fertile anthers about 12 ; staminodes 5. Ovary fusiform. Style longer 
than the stamens, pubescent below ; stigma cyliudric. Capsule {fide 
Masters) shortly stalked, ovoid, tereto, acute, 1"5 in. long and 1 iu. in 
diam., covered with Hat scaly hairs. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Iud i. 
367 ; P. oblongum, Wall. Cat. 1165. 
Penang; Jack, Wallicb, Curtis. Malacca ; Stoliokza, at low eleva- 
tions. 
This species does not appear to be a common one. P. Blumeanunt 
has probably been mistaken for it. 
4. P. aceroihes, Wall. Cat. 1171. A tree 35 to 50 feet high i 
young blanches rather slender, covered (as are the petioles and under 
surfaces of the leaves) by a thin felted layer of minute whito tomentum, 
above which is a superficial deciduous layer of loose stellate rufous hairs. 
Leaves coriaceous, more or less elliptic, sometimes obovate-elliptic, the 
apex abruptly aud shortly acuminate, the edge often straight at the 
sides, sometimes waved, never lobed : the baBe sub-truncate, often 
cordate, 5 to 7-uerved ; upper surface (when adult) glabrous : main 
lateral nerves 12 to 15 pairs, straight, oblique ; length 5 to 10 in., 
breadth 3'25 to 5'5 in., petiole "4 to "5 in. Flowers 15 to 1 "75 in. long ; 
solitary, or in 3 to 4-flowered sub-sessile axillary cymes ; pedicels *2 in. 
long, each with a deeply lobed tomentoso bract ; the buds narrowly 
cylindrio, ribbed. Sepals very coriaceous, recurved, longer than the 
petals, linear, acute, scurfy-tomentose outside, adpressed-pubescent 
within. Petals membranous, obovate, glabrous iu the inner, scurfy on 
the outer, surface. Stamens as long as the petals or shorter, the tube 
only "25 in. long : fertile anthers about 15, linear. Style shorter than 
the stamens, glabrous ; stigma clavate ; ovary densely sericeous, 5- 
angled. Capsule woody, oblong, pointed at both ends, angled, glabrous, 
2 to 2'5 in. long. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873, pt. 62; For. 
Flora Burm. i. 145. P. acerifolium, Mast, (not of Willd.) in Hook. fli. 
Fl. Br. Ind. i. 368, in part. Miq. 111. Arch. Ind. 84, in part. 
Andaman Islands; Heifer, No. 568 (Kew Distrib.), Kurz, King's 
Collectors. Distrib. Burmah ; Wallich. 
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