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margins of the blade, swollen below. Flowers in fascicles of up to 10- 
to 12, on tubercles in the axils of the leaves or above the scars of fallen 
leaves on the previous year’s wood ; pedicels - 5 to ’6 in. long, slender, 
flattened below the flowers, densely pubescent at first, afterwards nearly 
glabrous, recurved in fruit ; buds small, conical. Calyx-lobes 4, ■ 2 in. long ; 
2 upper ovate-acute, densely pubescent, valvate ; 2 lower imbricate, also 
densely pubescent, ciliate on the margins, somewhat keeled, ovate- 
acute. Corolla funnel-shaped ; lobes 8, throat villous. Stamens about 
16 ; filaments short glabrous ; anthers sagittate. Ovary globose, villous, 
8-celled, style -3 to '4 in. long, stigma minutely lobed. Fruit an ovoid 
densely pubescent berry about -7 to ’9 in. in diam., crowned by the 
persistent style ; seeds 1-2. Seed ovoid-oblong, - 65 in. by - 35 in., acute 
at base ; testa shining, chestnut-brown, thin, crustaceous ; hilum large, 
oblong ; albumen none ; cotyledons oblong, - 45 in. long, ‘25 in. broad, 
radicle very small. 
Peeak: King’s Collector 512, 3846; Curtis 3695, on the Larut hill 
up to 2,500 feet. 
10. Bassia aegentea, Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 545 (1882) 
( not of de Vriese). A large tree ; branchlets rather thick, greyish-brown. 
Leaves coriaceo-chartaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, abruptly acumi- 
nate at apex, acute and often unequal at base ; glabrous above, shining 
grey-silky beneath when young, nearly glabrous when old ; 4 to 7 in. 
long, 2'5 to 3 in. broad; midrib prominent, thick; main-nerves 13 to 
15 pairs, about -4 in. apart, starting at about 60° with the midrib, at 
first straight then curving upwards ; reticulations many, very oblique ;. 
petiole 1 in. long, upper part bordered by the decurrent margin of the 
blade, swollen below and rugose. Floivers fascicled in clusters of 6 to 
10 in the axils of the leaves, or above the scars of fallen leaves ; pedicels 
slender, about '5 in. long, appressed-pubescent ; buds conical. Calyx- 
lobes 4, outer and inner pairs both valvate ; lobes ovate, • 2 to - 25 in. long,, 
acute, pubescent. Corolla tubular-campanulate, tube "1 in. long ; lobes 
8 to 9, - 15 in. long, linear-oblong. Stamens usually 24, in 3 rows, inserted 
on the top of the tube on a ring of rusty hairs ; filaments very small or 
none ; anthers ovate, densely hirsute, black-apiculate. Ovary rounded, 
depressed above, villous ; style - 2 to - 3 in. long, villous half-way up, 
subulate ; stigma capitate ; cells 8 to 10. Fruit not seen. 
Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 991, 1524 ; Derry 941. 
Bassia argentea, de Yriese, seems to be a Sideroxylon, cf. Burck & Koord. & Val. 
11. Bassia Beaceana, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree with spreading 
branches, reaching 50 to 70 feet in height and 10 to 20 in. in diam. 
branchlets pale brown. Leaves chartaceous ; bright green, glossy. 
