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oblong, thin, -2 in. long, opening along their edge ; connective black, 
prominent, ending in a long sharp awn, the anthers usually twisted 
half round. Ovary silky-pubescent, flat at top, style glabrous about 
■equal to corolla, cells 10 to 12. Fruit not known. 
Pekak : at Goping, Scortechini 1984. 
Said by Scortechini to give a guttapercha. 
2. Bassia Kingiana, Brace MS. in Herb. Calc. A tree, reaching 
50 to 60 feet in height, and 10 to 15 in. in diam. ; branchlets thick. 
Leaves coriaceous, dark green ; obovate-oblong, rounded and then 
shortly and abruptly acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous on 
both surfaces, margins slightly reflexed ; 10 to 14 in. long, 35 to 45 in. 
broad ; midrib very strong, prominent ; main-nerves about 20 pairs, 
conspicuous, -5 to -7 in. apart, starting nearly at right angles to the 
midrib and curving upwards to meet in a conspicuous intramarginal 
looped nerve ; secondary nerves few but prominent ; reticulations dis- 
tant, not numerous ; petiole 2 in. long, grooved above, swollen at base, 
and then conspicuously rugose when dry ; stipules subulate-acuminate 
from a broad base, very quickly caducous. Floivers fascicled, about 
3 to 5 together, on small tubercles above the scars of fallen leaves on 
the previous year’s wood ; pedicels recurved, thick, '4 in. long, enlarged 
above, covered as also the calyx with appressed tawny pubescence ; 
buds globose, about -4 in. long. Galyx-lohes 4, -4 in. in diam.; outer 
2 imbricate, rounded emarginate, thick ; inner 2 also imbricate, concave, 
ciliate on the margins. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, -15 in. long, rusty- 
hirsute without, pubescent within ; lobes 12 to 16, white, much imbri- 
cate or in 2 rows, spathulate, ciliate on the margins, hirsute, -25 in. 
long. Stamens many, 32 to 36, in 2 rows on the top of the corolla- 
tube ; filaments -1 in. long, rather stout, densely hirsute ; anthers linear- 
oblong, -125 in. long ; connective produced into a broad appendage, 
penieillate at tip, in bud merely aristate. Ovary rounded, villous ; style 
thick, curved, pubescent, -3 in. long, with minute stigmatic lobes ; cells 
about 8. Fruit a globose, thickly tawny -pubescent, berry, -75 in. in 
diam., surmounted by the long subulate persistent style, seeds 1 to 2. 
Seed not seen. 
Peeak: King’s Collector 3314, 3678, 7389 ; in open jungle at 300 to 
500 feet. Singapore : Bidley 6238, 6294. 
3. Bassia Kunstleri, Brace MS. in Herb. Calc. A tree with 
spreading branches, reaching a height of 30 to 40 feet and 10 to 
15 in. in diam. ; branchlets slender, grey, innovations rusty-pubescent. 
Leaves chartaceous ; obovate-oblong or oblong, abruptly acuminate at 
apex, acuminate at base, glabrous on both surfaces ; 4 to 6 in. long, 
