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The dried fruits of tin a species sometimes open longitudinally by a 
sort of quasi-suturo — hence the specific name, 
5, Alpuonsea cylisdeica, King, n. sp. A small tree 20 to 30 feet 
high ; young branches with long-, soft, pale brown pubescence, ultimately 
glabrous, cinereous, striate, Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, 
sometimes oblanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate ; the base rounded 
or sub-enncate, slightly oblique ; upper surface glabrous, shining; the 
midrib pubescent, the lower dull sparsely pubescent on tho midrib and 
nerves ; main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, spreading, faint ; length 2"5 to 3*5 
in., breadth 11 in. to 15. in., petiole '15 in. Flowers '35 in. long, single or 
2 or 3 from leaf-opposed or extra-axillary peduncles ; peduncles "15 to 
*4 in. long, with deciduous, distichous, sab-orbicular bracts : pedicels 2 to 
•35 in. long, pubescent, with 1 bracteolo near the base. Sepals semi- 
orbicular, blunt, connate at the base, tomentose outside, glabrous with- 
in, roflexed. Petals subequal, oblong-ovoid, tapering from the sub-saccate 
base to the sub-acute apex, tomentose outside, pubescent minutely inside 
except a glabrous patch at the base, 4 in. long. Stamens in 3 rows with 
short, broad filaments : anthers ovate, the connective very slightly 
apiculate. Ovaries 3, oblong, densely pale yellowish sericeous, with 
many ovules in two rows j style short, stigma bifid, sub-capitate. Ripe 
carpels 1 or 2, elongate, terete, tapering to the apex, pubescent or 
puberulous, nearly 1 in. long and only '2 in. in diam. 
Perak : on Ulu Bubong, elevat. 400 to 600 feet. King's Collector, 
No. 10G33. 
A species resembling A. sub-dehiscens in its narrow cylindric fruit. 
6. Alphonsea Curtisii, Kiug, n. sp. A scandent shrnb : young 
branches yellowish-pubescent, speedily becoming glabrous and dark- 
coloured. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanccolato, acute at base and apex ; 
upper surface glabrous shining, the lower minutely, sparsely adpressed- 
puberulous or glabrous, darker than tho upper when dry, minutely 
reticulate ; main nerves about 12 to 15 pairs, sub-horizontal, very faint, 
inter-arching far from the edge ; length 4 to 5"5 in., breadth 1 '2 to 175 
in., petiole "2 in. Peduncles extra-axillary, 1- or 2-flowered ; flowers 
about '5 in long, conical in bud : pedicels about '3 in. long, tawny- to- 
mentose ; bracteoles I or 2, sub- orbicular. Sepals connate into a spread- 
ing cup, "25 in. broad, tomentose outside and glabrons inside, with 3 
broad, sub-acute teeth. Petals much larger than the sepals, fleshy, ob- 
long, ovate, sub-acute ; the outer tomentose on both surfaces, "4 in. long ; 
the inner narrower, glabrous inside. Stamens numerous, with short 
thick filaments : apical process of connective small, not concealing tho 
short perfectly dorsal anther-cells. Pistils about 3, oblong, tomentose, 
many-ovuled i stigma large, broad, sessile. Ripe carpels unknown. 
Penang : Curtis, No. 1410. 
37G 
