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lanceolate, attenuate to tlie apex, .slightly keeled outside, 1 to 125 in. 
long ; inner about *8 in. long, ovate, acute. Stamens numerous, apices 
of anthers very convex, puberulous. Ovaries oblong, pubescent ; style 
cylindrio, glabrous : stigma bifid. Fruit unknown. 
Malacca ; Griffith. 
Known only by Griffith's imperfect specimens. 
8. Goniotllalamus Curtisii, King, n. sp. A shrub or small slender 
tree : young branches densely rnsty-tomentose, the larger pale and 
glabrous. Leaves stoutly membranous, narrowly oblong to obovate- 
oblong, more or less abruptly and shortly acuminate, slightly narrowed 
to the rounded base ; upper surface shining, glabrous except the pn- 
berulous midrib ; the lower sparsely puberulous, the midrib and nerves 
dark rusty-tomentose ; the latter 28 to 34 pairs, sub-horizontal, inter- 
arching near the margin, very prominent, as is the midrib, on the lower 
and depressed on the upper surface : length 9 to 15 in., breadth 3 to 
5 5 in. ; petiole "35, channelled, pubescent. Flowers solitary, from the 
stem ; pedicels stout, decurved, with two deciduous bracteoles at the 
base, '6 in. long. Sepals large, green, rigidly membranous, conjoined into 
a cup with 3 broadly-ovate, sub-acute teeth, boldly nerved and reticu- 
late, minutely rufous-pubescent, persistent; length from 75 to 1 inch. 
Petals coriaceous, velvety-tomentose, yellowish, tinged with red : the 
outer broadly lauceolate, acuminate, slightly narrow T ed and thickened 
at the base, from 125 to 175 in. long; the inner rather more than 
one-third as long, ovate, acuminate. Anthers numerous, compresRcd, 
linear, with acute granular conical apices. Ovaries numerous, narroAvly 
elongate, densely pubescent, 1-nvuled ; style straight; stigma oblique, 
minutely lobed. Ripe carpels obliquely ovoid with long pointed, slightly 
hooked apices, rufous-pubescent, *75 in. long: stalks only 1 in. long, 
stout. 
Selangor; Curtis, Nos. 310 and 2316. Perak ; King's Collector, 
No. 10548 : Scortechini, No. 660. 
A very distinct species. 
9. Goniothalamls Griffithii, Hook. fil. and Th, PI. Ind., 110- A 
large shrub or small tree; all parts glabrous except the ovaries and 
carpels : young branches dark-coloured. Leaves coriaceous, oblong, sub- 
acute, or shortly and obtusely acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces 
shining and reticulate; main nerves 12 to 20 pairs, faint, spreading, 
inter-arching within the edge : length 7 to \'Z in , breadth 1 8 to 3*5 in. ; 
petiole *25 to 5 in., thick. Floicers solitary, axillary or extrn-axillary ; 
pedicel "5 to 1 in, long with a few scale-like bracteoles near the base. 
Sepals thinly coriaceous, orbicular-ovate, blunt, connate below, nerved 
and reticulate, persistent, *5 to 75 in. long. Petals thickly coriaceous ; 
