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branches, axillary and terminal, stellate-pubescent, slender, spreading, 
many-branched. Flowers very numerous, - 1 in. long, the pedicels 
slender and rather longer. Calyx when expanded rotate, cut half way 
down into triangular very acute or acuminate spreading teeth, densely 
stellate-tomentose outside. Petals broadly oblaneeolate, obtuse, narrow- 
ed to the base. Stamens 5-delphcus. Staminodes apparently absent. 
Ovary globose, densely tomentose, not visibly ridged, 5-celled. Style 
filiform, tapering, straight, glabrous. Fruit unknown. 
Perak, at elevations from 600 to 1000 feet : King’s Collector, Nos. 
7616 and 7730. 
A species distinguished by its slender hoary panicles, with flowers 
by far more numerous than in any of the other species described here. 
7. Pent ace Curtisii, n. sp. King. A large tree : the young branches 
slender, with dark-coloured bark, very minutely adpressed-lepidote, not 
hairy. Leaves ovate elliptic, with a short abrupt blunt acumen, the 
base rounded : upper surface glabrous, the lower cinereous ; basal 
nerves 2 pairs, one pair slender and close to the margin, the other 
branching on one side : lateral nerves 2 or 3 pairs ; all ascending and 
rather prominent beneath : length 3'25 to 5’5 in., breadth 2'25 to 2'75 
in. ; petiole '75 to 1 in. slender, slightly thickened at apex. Panicles 
mostly terminal (a few smaller axillary) 4'5 to 6 in. long with sparse 
cinereous stellate tomentum and scales, few-branched, and few-flowered. 
Flowers '15 in. long, on pedicels shorter than themselves. Calyx widely 
campanulate, stellate-tomentose outside ; its teeth as long as the tube, 
broadly triangular, rather blunt. Petals oblaneeolate or obovate-obtuse, 
much narrowed to the base. Staminodes lanceolate, acuminate, half as 
long as the filaments. Stamens in 5 bundles. Ovary turbinate, with 
8 or 9 blunt ridges, lepidote-pubescent : style rather stout, cylindric, 
shorter than the stamens. Fruit ’5 in. long, with 8 semi-elliptic mem- 
branous wings '2 in. broad. 
Penang ; Curtis, No. 1573. 
8. Pentace eximia, n. sp., King. A tree 50 to 70 feet high : 
young branches slender, dark-coloured, glabrous. Leaves ovate-elliptic 
to ovate-rotund, shortly and abruptly acuminate, the base slightly 
narrowed or rounded : upper surface glabrous, shining : lower paler and 
dull ; basal nerves 1 pair, bold and reaching to the apex, often with a 
slender small sub-marginal pair : lateral nerves usually only one pair, 
short and curving ; all rather bold beneath : length 4 to 5'5 in., breadth 
2 to 4 in. ; petiole '75 to l'l in., thickened at the apex. Panicles terminal, 
3 5 to 5 in. long, (longer in fruit), minutely scurfy-tomentose, with 
