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Leaves acute, rarely acuminate, not granular, 
reticulations transverse and verj distiuct; 
stalks of carpels *75 to 1 in. long ... 6. JE7. nervosa. 
1. Ellipeia cuneifolia, H. f. and T. Fl. Ind. 104. A climber 20 
to 100 feet long : young branches at first shortly and densely rufous- 
tomentose, ultimately sub-glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong or 
narrowly obovate-oblong, the apex broadly abruptly and shortly acumi- 
nate, the base rounded or sub-cordate : upper Burface glabrous, shining, 
tin; midrib and often the main nerves tomentose ; lower mimttfh* rnfoiw- 
tomentose to pubescent, very often glaberulons : main nerves ltJ to 19 
pairs, spreading to sub-ascending, prominent beneath : length of blade 
4 to 7 In., breadth 15 to 3 in. j petiole '15 to "2 in., tomentose. Flowers 
•75 to 1 in. in diam., in short few- flowered pedunculate rufous-tomeutose 
panicles ; bracts at the bases of the pedicels ovate, that at the base of 
the flower rotund: pedicels *25 to '4 in. long : buds ovoid-conic. Sepals 
small, fleshy ; sub-orbicular, slightly united below, spreading, coriaceous, 
tomentose. Petals fleshy, con ni vent j outer 3 much larger than the 
sepals, rotund, densely pubescent on both surfaces ; inner 3 not much 
larger than the sepals, rotund, pubescent externally, glabrous internally. 
Anthers scasile, short, the cells on the outer surface ; the apex with a broad, 
round, obliqno, truncate appendage from the connective ; pistils oblong, 
tapering to each end, pubescent. Torus small, sub-globose. Ripe carpels 
numerous, on long stalks, ovoid, oblique, blunt, with a faint partial ridge 
and a short lateral, conical process, minutely yeilowish-tomentose. Seed 
smooth, ovoid. Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 1025 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 52. 
Malacca \ Griffith, Haingay (Kew Distrib.) No* 31, Perak, very 
common. 
In the Perak specimens the tomentum on the under-snrface of the 
leaves is usually less dense than in specimens from Malacca : moreover 
the flowers are smaller in the Perak specimens, and the floral bract is not 
close to the calyx but a little way under it. In other respects, however, 
they agree. 
2. Ellipeia leptopoda, King, n. sp. A climber, 50 to 70 feet long : 
young branches and petioles densely covered with scurfy cinereous 
tomentum. Leaves coriaceous, obovato-oblong, rarely elliptic, obtuse, or 
with a very short blunt apiculus, narrowed in the lower half to the 
minutely cordate, rarely entire, base : upper surface pale-green when 
dry, sparsely and minutely stellate-pubescent when young, afterwards 
glabrous except the pubescent midrib s lower surface densely covered 
with soft, short, dense, pale brown tomentum ; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, 
spreading, obsolete on the upper, slightly prominent on the lower, sur- 
face s length of blade 3'5 to 5 in,, breadth 2 25 to 2 5 in., petiole '2 to 
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