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at one side, glabrous inside and on one half outside, pubescent on 
the other. Stamens 15, in 3 rows ; all the filaments broad, those of the 
outer two rows shorter than those of the inner: anthers short, broadly 
ovate, inappendiculate. Ovary corneal, pale tomentose : style short, 
stigma small. Fruit (perhaps not mature) ovoid, npiculatc, minutely 
pule tomentose, "6 in. long. Sepals all enlarged, membranous, reti- 
culate, concave at tho base; the throe outer narrowly oblong, obtuse, 
very little narrowed to the base, 7-ncrved, 2"75 in, long and "75 in. 
broad ; the two inner '8 in, long, linear, about 1 -nerved. 
Penang: Curtis, No. 1396. 
A species known only from Penang, and collected only by Mr. 
Curtis : remarkable for its almost racemose inflorescence, and curiously 
glandular leaves. 
3. Shobea Curtisn. Dyer MSS. in Herb. Kew. A tree 100 to 
150 feet high ; young branches slender, at first minutely stellate- 
puberulous, ultimately dark-coloured and glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, 
oblong-lanceolate, bluntly acumiuate ; the base sub-cuneate, or almost 
rounded j upper surface of young leaves minutely pubescent, of adults 
glabrescent or. quite glabrouH, the lower uniformly covered with very 
minute rufescent (young), or pale (adult) tomcntum : main nerves 10 
to 14 pairs, ascending, rather straight, prominent beneath : length 3 
to 4 in., breadth 1'2 to 1*4 in., petiole '4 to *6 in. Panicles axillary 
or terminal, 2 to 9 in. long, the rachis slender, glabrous. Flowers about 
*3 in. long, in distichous secuud rows of 4 or 5, on the short lateral 
branchlets, enveloped while in bud by broad deciduous puberulous 
bracts. Sepals ovate, tomentose outside, glabrous inside, slightly un- 
equal. Petals twice as long as the calyx, linear-oblong, obtuse, stellate- 
pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Stamens 15, in threo rows ; tho 
filaments elongate, broad (those of the outer row longest); anthers short, 
ovoid-globose, not apiculnte. Ovary elongated ovoid, tomentose in tho 
upper, glabrous in the lower half: styls short, stigma small. Uipe 
fruit narrowly ovoid, apiculate, "75 in. long, pale tomentose ; calyx- 
wings all enlarged and membranous, free from the fruit: the threo 
outer linear-oblong, 8-nerved, 2'25 iu. long, and about '5 in. broad; 
tho two inner about 1 in. long, bluntly spathulato and with fewer 
nerves. 
Penang : Curtis, Nos. 427, 1394 and 1395. 
Perak : King's Collector, No. 8143. 
The vernacular name of this in Penang is Maranti Tax. 
4. Shorba sbkicga, Dyer in Hook. til. Fl. Br. Ind., I., 3uii A live 
50 to 00 feet high; young brauchea rugulose, waited and acurfily 
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