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3. Fibraurea laxa, nob. ; — ramulis striatis, subfistulosis, cortice 
laevi, resiliente: foliis oblongis, apice acumine obtuso attenu- 
atis, imo rotundatis, 3-nerviis, et mox triplinerviis, coriaceis, 
utrinque glaberrirais, fusco-viridibus, supra in nervis immersis 
sulcatis, minutissiine ruguloso-punctulatis, subtus pallidiori- 
bus, nervis vix prominulis, eveniis : panicula laxa, longissima ; 
rachi tenera, compressa, nitida, striata; ramis patentibus, 
rectiusculis, valde productis; ramulis teneribus, flores 3-6 
breviter pedicellatos gerentibus ; floribus minoribus. — Borneo, 
V. s. in herb. Hook. (Lobb). 
This species is distinguished by its much darker, veinless, 
coriaceous leaves, gradually more attenuated, with a short ob- 
tuse acumen ; they are 3-nerved as well as triplinerved, and 
have a much longer and very lax racemose 6 panicle, twice or 
three times the length of that in the preceding species, with 
much smaller flowers. The leaves are about 6| inches long, 
2| inches broad, the petioles being deficient. The male raceme 
is about 15 inches long; its lateral branches standing straight 
at a right angle, 3-4 inches long, about 1 inch apart, with short 
branchlets bearing few flowers ; the flowers are smaller than in 
the foregoing species, the sepals shorter, darker, and more orbi- 
cular; the stamens shorter and more geniculated, with a more 
decided fringe-like appendage. 
4. Fibraurea fasciculata, nob. ; — ramulis subangulatis, cortice 
lacerato ; foliis ovalibus, apice breviter et repente attenuatis, 
acumine obtuso emarginato, imo distincte 3-nerviis, et longe 
intra marginem triplinerviis, coriaceis, glaberrimis, supra 
lucidis, Iffite viridibus, ruguloso-punctulatis, eveniis, subtus 
pallidioribus, nervis subprominulis ; petiolo limbo fere 3-plo 
breviore, imo tortuoso apiceque tumido; racemis plurimis 
(circa 10), simplicibus, gracilibus, petiolo vix duplo longiori- 
bus, glaberrimis, e nodo supra-axillari fasciculatim enatis ; 
floribus minoribus. — Penang, v. s. in herb. Hook. (Phillips). 
This plant difiers from all the foregoing in its more oval leaves, 
and is extremely distinct in its many fasciculate and almost 
simple spicate racemes. After the manner of most of the 
genera throughout the family, the leaves in all the species have 
a similar texture and nervation, and bear the same general ap- 
pearance; and this circumstance has induced the authors of the 
‘ Flora Indica ’ in this case to mass all the above species into 
one, making them identical with Loureiro’s typical plant. The 
dififerences between them are, however, sufficiently manifest : 
the leaves here are 5^ inches long, inches broad, on a petiole 
2 inches long; the slender racemes, 3 inches long, are quite 
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