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4 in. broad ; midrib prominent beneath, impressed and stellate-pilose 
above ; main-nerves about 10 pairs, prominent, arched upwards to and 
along the margin; reticulations prominent, transverse ; petiole '3 to - 4 in. 
long, stellate-pubescent. Bacemes in terminal and axillary panicles, 
4 to 8 in. long, densely white-tomentose and rusty-steliate-pilose, in- 
cluding calyx; pedicels very short, 0 to -15 in. long; bracts oblong- 
lanceolate, glandular-dentate, '25 in. long ; bracteoles 2, linear-subulate, 
•15 in. long; flowers creamy-white. Calyx-tube cupular, -2 to '25 in. 
long, truncate ; teeth 5, very minute. Corolla-tube short, '15 long, 
glabrous at the very base, appressed white-pubescent above ; lobes 5, 
valvate, - 3 in. long, linear-oblong, acute, afterwards recurved. Stamens 
10, about - 3 in. long ; filaments short, flat, glabrous, continued in the 
connective which is white-pubescent on the back ; anthers - 2 in. long, 
linear, mucronate, cells parallel. Ovary 5-lobed, white-villous, conical ; 
style slender, as long as corolla ; stigma capitate ; cells 3, ovules 5 to 6, 
erect. Fruit ovoid, grey-pubescent, mucronate, '75 to 1 in. in diam., 
supported by the cupuliform calyx ; pericarp thick, corky. Seed 1, outer 
integument pale brown, smooth, crustaceous, with a broad basal hilum, 
inner integument membranous ; albumen firm, endosperm cushion-like ; 
embryo somewhat oblique ; cotyledons cordate, -2 in. long ; radicle thick, 
terete, as long as cotyledons. Grotoni affinis sp. Wall. Cat. 7348. 
Perak : Scortechini 179 ; King’s Collector 7775, 7967, 8558, 10734. 
Singapore : Wallich 7848 ; Cantley 60. 
This species, like the others, is also frequently found with large tassel-like insect 
galls in place of the inflorescence. 
Order LXXIV. OLEACEiE. 
Erect or climbing shrubs or trees, unarmed. Leaves usually oppo- 
site, rarely alternate or verticillate, simple or pinnately 3-few-foliolate, 
entire or toothed ; stipules none. Inflorescence sometimes dichoto- 
mously cymose and centrifugal, sometimes trichotomously paniculate, 
some or all branches centripetal ; cymes or panicles axillary or ter- 
minal. Flowers hermaphrodite, often dimorphous, sometimes polyga- 
mous or dioecious, regular. Calyx free, usually small, campanulate, 
4- or more-toothed or -lobed, rarely 0. Corolla gamopetalous ; tube 
long or short ; lobes or petals 4 to 12, imbricate or induplicate-valvate 
in bud. Stamens usually 2, sometimes 4, inserted on the corolla, or 
hypogynous if the petals are free or 0 ; filaments usually short ; anthers 
rather large, ovate or oblong, rarely linear, dehiscing on the margin. 
Ovary free, 2-celled ; style short or long ; stigma simple or 2-lobed ; 
ovules 1 to 2, rarely more, in each cell, attached to the inner angle near 
