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1-5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib slender, prominent ; main-nerves 15 to 2Q 
pairs, starting at an angle of about 60° to the midrib and curving upwards 
to meet in a faint intramarginal looped nerve ; secondary nerves and 
reticulations prominent ; petiole slender, 1 to 1'5 in. long, bordered above 
in its upper part by tbe decurrent margins of the blade, base enlarged, 
sometimes twisted. Flowers solitary or fascicled 2 to 3 together in the 
axils of the leaves, or above the scars of fallen leaves ; pedicels thick, 
•3 to '4 in. long, usually recurved, densely rusty- or golden-pubescent like 
the calyx-lobes and fruit ; buds ovoid-orbicular about -4 in. long. Calyx- 
lobes 4, -4 in. long ; outer valvate, ovate-orbicular ; inner imbricate, con- 
cave, somewhat emarginate, thin and ciliate on the edges. Corolla 
tubular-campanulate ; tube about '125 in. long, glabrous on both sides , 
lobes 16, in 2 rows, very much imbricate, shortly spathulate, rounded at 
top, fimbriate on the margins, shortly pubescent within, 3-nerved. 
Stamens about 32, in 2 rows, mixed with long unicellular brown hairs ; 
filaments thick, about 0-5 in. long ; anthers oblong, opening by marginal 
slits, often twisted half round ; connective conspicuous, produced in a 
sharp mucro. Ovary rounded, villous ; style subulate, 5 to 7 in. long , 
cells about 8. Fruit an ovoid densely pubescent brown berry, ‘8 to 1 m. 
long, 1-2-seeded, surmounted by the persistent style. Seed ovoid, 
•obliquely pointed below, rounded above, '7 in. long, ’4 in. in diam., 
sometimes flattened on one side ; testa thin, crustaceous, chestnut- 
brown, shining ; hilum very large, obovate ; albumen none ; cotyledons 
thick, -5 in. long, ovate ; radicle small, pointed. 
Perak : on Lariit peak, at 500 to 2,600 feet, King s Collector, 3241, 
3547, 3964, 6410 ; Wray 2643, 3201 ; Curtis 3694 ; Ridley 5536. 
4. Bassia penicillata, King & Gamble, n. sp. A large tree, reach- 
ing 60 feet in height with a girth of 4 feet ; ultimate branchlets and 
innovations densely ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves coriaceous ; oblong 
•or somewhat obovate-oblong, shortly and abruptly acute at apex, 
unequally rounded at base ; glabrous above, thickly golden-silky- 
pubescent beneath when young, afterwards glabrate ; margins recurved ; 
6 to 10 in. long, 2’5 to 35 in. broad ; midrib thick, prominent, impressed 
and keeled above ; main-nerves 24 to 28 pairs, conspicuous, paiallel, 
•3 to -5 in. apart in large leaves, starting at about 80° with the midrib, 
•curved only near the margin to meet in an inconspicuous looped 
intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves many in large leaves ; reticula- 
tions oblique, not prominent ; petiole 1-2 to 1-5 in. long, thickened below. 
Flowers fascicled, about 1 to 4 together in the axils of the leaves, on very 
short rusty-pubescent tubercles; pedicels 1 to 1-2 in. long, slender, 
pubescent; buds conical. Calyx-lobes 4, sometimes 5, -4 in. long; 
■outer pair ovate-acuminate, densely rusty-pubescent, thick ; inner pair, 
