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fleshy, smooth leaves, which are nearly 4 inches long, and inch 
broad, on a rather stout petiole, about 4 lines in length ; the 
calyx is small, and rather deeply 5-toothed ; the male flowers 
have oblong petals, with an internal longitudinal keel, and a long 
indexed apical joint, four stamens equal to them in length, with 
very broad, thick, fleshy filaments, which are furnished on the 
upper margin with a row of clavate hairs, scarcely longer than 
the anthers ; the pollen is acutely 3-angular ; the ovarium is 
sterile, oblong, with a rather long, conical, hollow style, toothed 
at its apex. The female flowers have five thick fleshy petals, and 
five stamens formed like the others, but the cells are filled with 
grumous matter; the ovarium is nearly the length of the 
stamens, somewhat 5-grooved, globular in its lower moiety, 
smaller and cylindrical in its upper haK, which presents here 
somewhat excentrically, a single cell with two distinct ovules 
suspended from near the summit, on the side towards the axis : the 
apex of the very short ovarium is crowmed with a conical, 5-lobed, 
disciform process, equal to it in diameter, the summit being ter- 
minated by five very minute teeth*. 
22. Stemonurus affinis, n. sp. ; — ramulis tortuosis, nodosis ; foliis 
ellipticis, utrinque subacuminatis, apice obtusiusculo attenua- 
tis, opacis, supra in costam sulcatis, subtus pallidioribus, costa 
nervis venisque prominulis, margine subrevoluto, petiolo tenui 
teretiusculo superne sulcato ; panicula axillari, pauciflora, 
petiolo vix longiore, pedicellis pubescentibus, calyce 5-dentato 
petahsque oblongis breviter apiculatis glabris, staminibus 
iisdem vix sequilongis, filamentorum apicibus carinaque interna 
longissime ciliatis, ovario fertili, longitudine staminum, longe 
cylindrico, paullulo incurvo, apice pulvinato. — Malacca. — v. s. 
in herb. Hook. (Griffiths). 
This species is near S. pohjmorpha, but dififers in several 
particulars. It appears to be a remarkably knotty and scrubby 
tree ; its leaves are about 3i inches long, to If inch broad, on 
a petiole 4 or 5 lines in length ; its panicles are 6 or 8 lines 
long, and its fiowers' offer a veiy instructive exemplification of 
the development of the ovarium ; the last-mentioned species ex- 
hibiting an intermediate stage, between that described in S. Pe- 
nangianus, and this, which offers another manifest instance of 
Dr. WaUich’s genus Gomphandra. Here the fleshy petals are 
linearly oblong, with a comparatively short inflexed apex ; the 
stamens are not equal to them in length ; the filaments exceed 
the anthers in breadth, but are not quite so thick as in other 
species ; they are suddenly contracted to a sharp point at the apex, 
* A figure of this species, and an analysis of its floral structure, will be 
shown in plate 14. 
