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1. Popowia pauciflora, Maingay MSS. Hook. fil. Fl. Ind. I, 69. 
A tree P Young branches slender, cinereous, strigose. Leaves membran- 
ous, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, the base acute; both surfaces gla- 
brous, minutely granular; the midrib and 9 or 10 pairs of oblique, little 
curving main nerves sparsely pilose beneath; length 5 to 6 in., breadth 
l b to 2 in., petiole '2 in,, pubescent. Flowers extra-axillary, solitary or 
axillary, '25 in. in diam. ; pedicels *15 to -25 in. long-, with a basal 
braeteolc, rusty-strigose. Sepals minute, ovate. Petals; the outer small 
and like the sepals ; the inner three times as large, sub-orbicular, con- 
cave, their apices iuflexed. Stamens many. Ovaries about 6, strigose ; 
ovale solitary, erect. Ripe carpels sub-sessile, globular, glabrous. 
Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 56. 
Known only by Maingay *s imperfect specimens; an obscure species. 
2. Popowia ramosissima, Hook. fil. and Thorns. PI. Ind. 105. A 
small spreading tree ; young branches at lirst rufous-pubescent; the 
older dark-coloured and furrowed. Leaves membranous, sub-sessile, 
narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, sometimes slightly obgvate, shortly, blunt- 
ly and abruptly acuminate, the base rounded or slightly narrowed ; both 
surfaces glabrous, the lower granular and pubescent on the midrib and 
6 to 8 pairs of ascending rather straigbt nerves ; length. 2*75 to 4 in., 
breadth 1 to 175 in., petiole '05 in. Flowers globular in bud, leaf -op- 
posed, solitary or in small fascicles, "2 in. in diam. ; pedicels '15 to "25 
in, long (longer in fruit), minutely bracteolate, rufous- tomentoso. Sepals 
broadly triangular-ovate, acute, nearly as large as the outer petals and 
like them tomentose outside, and glabrous inside. Petals sub-equal, 
coriaceous, rotund, concave ; the inner rather larger and with incurved 
points. Stamens short, with very broad truncate concave heads. Ova- 
ries 5 or 6, villous ; ovules 1 or 2. Ripe carpels globose with short stalks, 
pubescent, '25 to 35 in. in diam. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat, I, Pt. 2, 27 ; Hook, 
fil, Fl. Br. Ind. I, 68. Guatteria ramo&issima, Wall. Cat. 7294, 8006. 
Popowia rufula and P. ajjitvis Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. II, 20. 
In all the provinces, common. Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo. 
3. Popowia nitida, King, n. sp. A Bhrub f Young branches 
Bparsely and softly rufous-pubescent, the bai'k brown. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-ovate, bluntly acuminate, the 
base rounded ; both surfaces reticulate, glabrous and shining, the midrib 
tomentose on the upper; main nerves about, 12 pairs, very faint, spread- 
ing and forming double arches iuBide the edge j length 2'5 to 4 in., 
breadth *6 to 125 in., petiole 'l in, Flowers few, in short extra-axillary 
racemes, snb-globular, '25 in. in diam. ; pedicels about as long as the 
flowers, each with 2 sub-orbicular, stem-clasping, pubescent bracteoles. 
Sepals orbicular, concave, puberulous on both surfaces, about '15 in. in 
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