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Schouif'nia t Kortbula (the author of tho genus) says nothing s nor cWs 
Bonnet who (PI. Jav. Rar. p. 239, t. 46) describes at greater length 
than Korthuls thu species 8. ovata t the only one then known. Bennett 
neither describes nor figures albumen in the seed. Hasskarl (Retzia 1, 
136) describes the seeds as exalbuminous, and I find none in the seeds 
of these species of which I have been able to examine ripe fruit. Tho 
only other known species are S. ovata^ Korth. from Java ; and 8. hy- 
poleuca, Pierre (Fl. Cochin-Chine t. 134) from Cambodia. 
2. Schoutenia Kunbtleri, n. sp., King. A tree 60 to 70 feet 
high : young branches cinereous, rather rough-glabrous. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, narrowly obovate-oblong or oblauccolate, acute, the margin 
slightly waved, slightly narrowed to the rounded 3- to 5-nerved base ; 
upper surface glabrous, shining: lower sub-silvery; the lateral nerves 
4 or 5 pairs, spreading, curving, inter-arching near the margin, promi- 
nent on the lower surface as are the basal nerves and the numerous 
slightly curved transverse veins. Flowers crowded towards the ends of 
tho branches, in numoruus short few-flowered scurf y-tomcntose racemes 
or cymes: pedicels from 5 to 75 in. long, jointed and bractcolatc abovo 
the base, the bracteole oblanceolatc. Calyx cam pan ul ate, membranous, 
coloured and veined, stellate-hairy on both surfaces, *5 to "75 in. long, 
according to age, cut to the base into 5 ovate spreading lobes. Petals 0. 
Stamens on a slightly elevated torus. Ovary sessile, Bub-globose, densely 
tomentose, 5-cellcd. 8tyU longer than the stamens. Stigmas 5, short, 
fleshy. Fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded, surrounded by the Blightly accrescent 
persistent calyx. 
Perak at elevations c* from 300 to 800 feet: King's Collector, No. 
3409 : on Ulu Tupa, Wray, No. 2692. 
According to the held notes of Messrs. Kunstler and Wray, tho 
calyx is yellow when young, but becomes brown when the fruit ripens. 
3. Schoutenia glomerata, n, sp., King. A tree from 40 to 60 
feet high : young branches slender, cinereous, minutely pubescent. 
Leaves membranous, glabrous, elliptic-oblong, acute or shortly and 
bluntly acuminate, the margins slightly waved ; the base broad, rounded 
or emarginate, 3-nerved, the upper pair of nerves very strong, running 
to the apex of the leaf and joined to the midrib by numerous prominent 
curving transverse secondary nerves, all very prominent on the pale 
silvery shining under surface : length 10 to 15 in., breadth 3*5 to 55 
in. ; petiole only '25 in. long, stout, wrinkled. Cymes condensed, very 
crowded, axillary, I to 15 in. in diam. Flotvers *25 in. long and '3 in. 
wide, on tomontoso rufous pedicels about 2 in. long. Calyx widely 
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