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flowers. Sepals lanceolate, sub-acute, minutely ad pressed-sericeous 
externally, almost glabrous internally except tbe pubescent inverted 
edges, the midrib equally thickened from base to apex. Petals slightly 
longer than the sejwils, oblong, expanded at the base, the apex broad, 
cut into 10 to 15 cylindrio filiform glabrous fimbrne one-fourth of the 
length of the petals : lower part sericeous on both surfaces but especial- 
ly on the inner (where the hairs are reversed), cucullate with the edges 
much infolded, and with a large basal gland at each side of which is an 
imperfect cell. Torus a fleshy deeply 10-lobed glabrescent disc. 
Stamens about 15; slightly shorter than the petals, filaments pubescent, 
less than half the length of the puberulous sub-equal anthers : outer 
cull with a short sub-recurved awn. Ovary ovoid, pointed, smooth, 
glabrous, 2-celled. Style as long as the stamens, cylindric, grooved, 
glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid, blunt at each end, *5 in. long and *3 in. in 
diam., 1-celled, l-seeded ; pulp rather thin, slightly fibrous, stone minute- 
ly rugulose, 1-celled, l-seeded. Mast, in Hook. fiX FI, Br. Ind. i. 408. 
Singapore ; Wallich, Ridley. Malacca ; Griffith, No. 698, Maingay 
No. 258 (Kew. Distrib.). Penang; Curtis, No. 256. Perak; Scortechini, 
King's Collector, Nos. 269, 6907, 10831. 
Miquel's Monocera Palenthanica, from Sumatra, judging from the 
only authentic specimen winch I have seen (and which, has no flowers), 
if not identical with this mast be a very closed allied species. Under 
his Catalogue, No. 2678, Wallich issued two species, the above described 
as E. pedunculatus, and another whicli is clearly E. nitidus. Jack. 
15. El^ocaupus Kunstleei, n. sp , King. A tree 50 to 70 feot 
high: young branches as thick as a goose-quill, polished, thickened and 
rough at the apex: all parts glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves 
coriaceous, rotund-obovate, tbe apex broadly obtuse, sometimes with a 
short broad apiculus, rather abruptly narrowed from below tbe middle 
to the acnminato base ; both surfaces, shining, glabrous ; main nerves 
about 10 pairs, ascending, interarching freely inside the entire or cre- 
nate-scrrate edge i prominent beneath j the reticulations rather faint ; 
length 5 to 8 in., breadth 2*75 to 3*75 in., petiole '5 to "7 in., pubescent. 
Racemes crowded from the axils of fallen leaves and a few axillary, less 
than half as long as the leaves, 6 to 9-flowered : rachises aud pedicels 
slender, pnberulous, glabrous when old. Flowers *6 in. in diam., their 
pediceb "5 in. or more long. Sepals lanceolate, sub-acnte, pubescent on 
both surfaces, the midrib thickened and villous at the base inside. 
Petals about as long as the sepals, oblong slightly obovate, obtuse, thick- 
ened in the lower half, the apex with 6 to 8 rather broad teeth, ad- 
pressed-sericeous outside, densely villous inside. Torus a shallow 
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